You know, amid the steady stream of murderable celebs in Hitman: World of Assassination and the hoopla around 007 First Light’s imminent release, I forgot that IO has another iron in the fire—the online fantasy RPG it announced in 2023 (and which I apparently wrote the news article for. The past is a foreign country).
But it’s been boiling away somewhere in Denmark (and/or IO’s various other studios) all this time, and per IO CEO (Ee Eye Ee Eye Oh) Hakan Abrak in a recent chat with The Game Business, it’s actually near to full-cooked.
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So Bond’s almost here and the fantasy game—still unnamed, but I continue to think it should star Agent 47 and be called Baldy’s Gate—will follow after. And then? It sounds like IO’s right back to Hitman, baby.
It sounds like IO still has a hell of a lot of game ahead of it, even after 007 First Light hits on May 27. Suits me. I’m curious to see what an IO fantasy game looks like and, considering a solid 34% of my lifetime is now dedicated to repeated runs of Hitman’s Freelancer mode, I absolutely can’t wait to see what Agent 47’s next set of whacky adventures brings.
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