Hitman developer IO Interactive has opened a studio in England
Hitman developer IO Interactive has opened a new studio in Brighton, England.
The independent developer and publisher said the core team at IOI Brighton is already in place and will contribute to all its games in active development.
“We are extremely proud and excited to open our next studio in Brighton, where we see enormous potential to expand our incredible team and attract the very best talent from the exciting UK development scene,” said IO Interactive CEO Hakan Abrak.
IO was first established in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1998. It opened a second studio in Malmo, Sweden in 2019, followed by a third in Barcelona, Spain in 2021, and a fourth in Istanbul, Turkey earlier this year.
The company announced in November 2020 that it was developing an officially licensed James Bond game. With the working title Project 007, it will feature an original James Bond origin story.
And in February, IO confirmed that’s it’s working on an online fantasy RPG, which is expected to be published by Microsoft for Xbox Series X/S and PC.
While the studio plans to continue evolving its Hitman World of Assassination trilogy, it recently said the next major entry in its best known franchise has taken a backseat for the time being.
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