{"id":77374,"date":"2026-05-05T19:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T23:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77374"},"modified":"2026-05-05T23:36:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T03:36:36","slug":"io-interactive-cant-wait-to-return-to-hitman-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77374","title":{"rendered":"IO Interactive “Can’t Wait” to Return to Hitman Series"},"content":{"rendered":"
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IO Interactive has assured fans that there will be more Hitman<\/a> adventures, and the team is eager to return to the franchise.<\/p>\n

IO Interactive’s entire history is built on the back of Agent 47 and the Hitman franchise. The studio has explored other games like Freedom Fighters and Kane and Lynch, but Hitman has been ol’ reliable for the Danish developer. By the end of this month, IO Interactive will have developed and released 13 games over the course of 26 years, with 007 First Light being the latest<\/a>. Hitman makes up more than half of the studio’s released games. Many have wondered whether or not the studio’s newfound fascination with James Bond will lead to Hitman’s demise, but that’s not the case.<\/p>\n

IO Interactive has noted many times over the years that Hitman remains an important part of the studio’s future<\/a>, but it will be a while before a brand new game is released. In a new interview with The Game Business<\/a>, IOI CEO Hakan Abrak revealed that he is excited to return to the franchise in the future.<\/p>\n

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Abrak noted that although it has been five years since the last Hitman game, it is not<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

IO Interactive has assured fans that there will be more Hitman adventures, and the team is eager to return to the franchise. IO Interactive’s entire history is built on the back of Agent 47 and the Hitman franchise. The studio has explored other games like Freedom Fighters and Kane and Lynch, but Hitman has been…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":77376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-ign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77374"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77378,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77374\/revisions\/77378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}