The future of Hitman creators

Video games are a very popular entertainment product. There are titles and franchises with millions of players. The characters and their stories attract followers who spend a lot of hours with the games and mean very high sums of money for companies.
Behind the audiovisual productions there are companies of different sizes. As in any business environment, there are very large firms that are attentive to successes that a smaller one can create. When they detect it, they buy it to enhance its capabilities.
The latest news about Hitman and the environment of those responsible for Agent 47, allow us to review the history of a group of creators who knew how to make a place for themselves in the world of large corporations. The firm grew without losing its most important creation that has titles such as Hitman 2, released in 2018, or the popular mobile phone and tablet game Hitman Sniper.
IO Interactive overcame the split with Square Enix Montreal, took over the stealth and strategy game franchise born in 2000, produced new Hitman games alongside Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment and they have confirmed a project for another major video game. .

A developer with different partners

The story of the world's most famous costume killer in video games dates back to 2000, when the Danish studios IO Interactive created him and the British company Edios Interactive took over the distribution. The first title was simply called Hitman and then products such as Hitman 2 Silent Assassin, Hitman Contracts and Hitman Blood Money arrived.
In 2011 IO Interactive went on to work together with a much bigger firm than they were, Square Enix Montreal. The group is one of the subsidiaries of one of the most important players in the field of video games, the Japanese firm Square Enix. Together they produced the famous game series Go (Hitman Go, Lara Croft Go and Deus Ex Go) and the popular title for mobile devices Hitman Sniper. The latter has more than 10 million players and is part of the selection of the editors of the Google Play Store.

New ways

In 2017, important news came about Hitman Sniper and the society that created him and led him to fame. The Danish video game developer separated from Square Enix Montreal but kept the rights to the Hitman saga.
Hakan Abrak the CEO of IO Interactive, through an official statement on the company's website, said at the time that the studio had reached an agreement with the Canadian subsidiary of Square Enix to retain the rights to Hitman and that the Their growth in recent years had allowed them to transform into an AAA video game studio. The AAA category applies to the most powerful and important titles in the industry.
Once IO Interactive became independent, it sealed an alliance with another industry giant to produce the new games about Hitman.

The union with Warner Bros

After the news about the separation of the companies that gave life to successes like Hitman Go and Hitman Sniper, fans of the popular strategy game to carry out murders received the information of the arrival of new Hitman games.
IO Interactive would work with Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment with the goal of creating products for PlayStation 4, XBox One and PC. From this joint work Hitman (2016) and Hitman 2 (2018) were born.
In 2019 David Haddad President of the American company and Abrak confirmed that the two firms work together on a new video game. President. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment highlighted the tradition of creating iconic titles that IO Interactive has, while the Danish studio's CEO highlighted the respect Warner Bros had from the outset of their company's creative vision.

The announcement of the continuity of the joint work of IO Interactive and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment is important news about Hitman because the study that gave him life so many years ago shows consistency and growth. It is not confirmed if the title they promoted will be a novelty around Agent 47.
Reviewing the history and present of the creators of Hitman Sniper is a good example of how the video game industry works. The Danish studio began distributing the title through mergers with larger companies until it was able to become independent. Once growth was achieved, he obtained better contracts such as the union with Warner Bros.