Hitman 2 Leaked

<p>Hitman 2 exists&comma; and it will be published by Warner Bros&period; Hitman 2 was leaked through an <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;imgur&period;com&sol;eyLStXx&period;png" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">image of the logo<&sol;a> that was hosted on the Warner Bros&period; website&period; It has been taken down from that site&period; Beyond that&comma; no other details have leaked as of yet&period; We don&&num;8217&semi;t know if this game will follow the episodic model of the first one&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn3&period;dualshockers&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;06&sol;Agent-47-ds1-670x377-constrain&period;jpg" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>IO gets in<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Last year&comma; Square Enix laid off the entirety of IO Interactive&comma; the developers behind the Hitman franchise&period; This led fans to speculate on the possibility that a sequel may never happen&period; Despite Hitman not topping the sales charts&comma; it built a cult following&period; IOI is a talented team&comma; to be sure&comma; but they&&num;8217&semi;re known for Hitman and not much else&comma; so if a publisher picked them up it would be for this IP&period; Following the separation from Square Enix&comma; IOI put out the Hitman GOTY edition and continued supporting the game&period; This was most likely to keep some cash flow coming in while they figured out the larger future of their company&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s heartening to see that a publisher recognizes the niche appeal of a studio like IOI&period; Thankfully&comma; WB stepped in&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>Who Missed Out<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Out of the major publishers&comma; Microsoft was the only one that might have been desperate enough to pick up a niche IP&period; But even they must&&num;8217&semi;ve been cautious about throwing their weight behind another darling team after what happened with Platinum and Scalebound&period; Aside from the console manufacturers&comma; there&&num;8217&semi;s EA and Bethesda in terms of large video game publishers&period; EA would be an extremely poor fit for IOI&semi; their model and business practices would ruin a game like that&period; So that left Bethesda as the most obvious hope for IOI&period; Bethesda has strongly supported single-player games&comma; Fallout 76 notwithstanding&comma; so they seemed like an ideal candidate for a game like Hitman&period; But lo and behold&comma; Warner Bros&period; scooped up IOI&period; WB could own IOI now&comma; or this could be a one-and-done deal&period; As with all game news from the past month&comma; we&&num;8217&semi;ll hopefully see more of Hitman 2 at E3&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;