IO Interactive revealed today that over six million people have enjoyed its latest Hitman game, Hitman: Absolution. To be more precise, 6,112,047 people in total have played Hitman: Absolution and over 9.5 million contracts have been played. Pretty good numbers for a game that did not meet Square Enix’s expectations, don’t you think? Continue reading Hitman Absolution – Over Six Million People Have Played It→
Square Enix has revealed that its three top titles – Tomb Raider, Sleeping Dogs and Hitman: Absolution – have broken even, meaning that even though these titles did not sufficiently contribute to Square Enix’s profits, their development expenses were covered. In other words, they were successful but not as much as the company hoped to. Continue reading Square Enix – Tomb Raider, Sleeping Dogs, & Hitman: Absolution Have Broken Even→
Sweet Mary and Jesus. Last week, Square Enix revealed some sales numbers for Tomb Raider, Hitman: Absolution and Sleeping Dogs. Those numbers were described as estimates sales numbers, however it seems that they were the real numbers. Square Enix’s estimated numbers were higher than those reported, and according to a Japanese PDF report (coming straight from Square Enix), the company wanted to ship 5-6 million copies of Tomb Raider, 4.5-5 million copies of Hitman: Absolution and 2-2.5 million copies of Sleeping Dogs. Continue reading Square Enix wanted to ship 5-6 million copies of Tomb Raider & 4.5 to 5 million of Hitman: Absolution→
Square Enix and Nixxes Software have released a new PC update for Hitman: Absolution. According to its changelog, this patch offers performance enhancements on various hardware configurations. We’ve already seen that Absolution had some optimization issues, therefore it will be interesting to see whether Nixxes has addressed them or not. As always, this update will be auto-downloaded next time you start the Steam client and you can view its changelog below. Continue reading New Hitman: Absolution Update Comes With Performance Enhancements→
Nixxes Software and IO Interactive have released a new update for the PC version of Hitman: Absolution. According to its changelog, this patch adds an option to either lower or disable the game’s Bloom effect, improves – slightly – the general performance, and adjusts the game’s difficulty levels. In addition, the disguise parameters on ‘Professional’ difficulties have been tweaked via this update. You can view its complete changelog below. Continue reading Hitman: Absolution – New Patch Released→
IO Interactive presented a brand new trailer to promote the ‘Deus Ex Suit’ and ‘Deus Ex Zenith gun’ add-ons will allow Hitman Absolution players to dress Agent 47 in Adam Jensen’s iconic combat armor and use the Zenith handgun when competing in Contracts Mode. Continue reading Hitman: Absolution – Deus Ex DLC Trailer Released→
Nixxes Software and Square Enix have released the first PC patch for Hitman: Absolution. According to its release notes, this patch enables DX10 owners to use the simplest version of the Depth Of Field effect, fixes various startup issues, and addresses all problems with the Sniper Challenge Unlocks not carrying over into Hitman: Absolution. This patch will be auto-downloaded next time you start the Steam client and you can view its complete changelog below. Continue reading Hitman: Absolution – First PC Update Released→
