GOG has pulled Hitman from its own store and admitted it shouldn't have released the game in its current form.

In a post on its forum, GOG apologised to its customers, saying: "We've let you down."

Hitman - Game of The Year Edition launched on GOG.com last month and immediately sparked a row about DRM.

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Hitman - Game of The Year Edition launched on GOG.com this week - and immediately sparked a row about DRM.

GOG is a storefront whose brand is built upon selling games "DRM free" - that is, they can be played offline.

Hitman's GOG page, like that of so many games on the platform, highlights that it is DRM free. "No activation or online connection required to play," reads the prominent message.

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Copenhagen-based Hitman developer IO Interactive has announced that it's opening a second development studio, to be situated in Malm , Sweden.

The new studio will, according to CEO Hakan Abrak, operate in tandem with IO's existing team, and will "strengthen [the company's] commitment to deliver exceptional content to the Hitman franchise, community and all our fans".

Establishing a second development studio will also, says Abrak, enable IO to "expand our muscles for creating brand-new and exciting endeavours, new universes, new franchises."

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Two years after developer IO Interactive stealth added a Potato Jesus Easter egg to Hitman, a player has finally found it.

"Just noticed this in Sapienza," wrote u/tanstaafl in a post on r/Hitman.

Included in the post is an image of a picture on a wall that's quite clearly a take on Potato Jesus.

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A logo for Hitman 2 popped up on the Warner Bros. website before being pulled offline.

The logo appeared after a couple of teaser tweets from the Hitman and Warner Bros. Games accounts. An announcement is due at 6pm on Thursday, 7th June.

Back in April, developer IO Interactive and Warner Bros. signed a worldwide publishing and distribution agreement for Hitman, which saw Hitman: Definitive Edition come out in shops on 18th May. So, it doesn't come as a big surprise to see Warner the likely publisher of the next Hitman game.

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Developer IO Interactive is giving away Hitman's Sapienza map, and its accompanying missions, for free on PC, PS4, and Xbox One, as part of its newly released Spring Pack.

The Spring Pack is essentially Episode 2 in Hitman's six-episode season (IO gave away Episode 1: Paris in December), and features the World of Tomorrow story mission, 20 levels of Mastery with weapon and item unlocks, over 100 challenges, plus seven achievements/trophies.

It also includes all Contracts, Challenge Packs, and Featured Contracts that IO has released for Sapienza, and all Sapienza-based Elusive Targets have been re-activated as part of the giveaway. Full details can be found over on IO's website.

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Hitman's second location, Paris, will be free over Christmas and into early next year.

You'll be able to nab the French capital and all of its content from tomorrow, 15th December, until 5th January 2018.

Also included is the game's Holiday Pack, helpfully set in Paris, where you have to track down thieves stealing Santa's presents. (To be clear, you do not assassinate Santa.)

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Elusive Targets have returned to Hitman following the launch of the title's Game of the Year edition earlier this month.

We knew this feature would be making a reappearance, however it has now been revealed the first target to be reactivated is the Forger (Sergei Larin), who will be in Paris for 10 days starting from today.

Elusive Targets are unique marks which players only have one chance to eliminate - you either succeed or fail. While playing the contract, players must use clues from the briefing video and photographs provided to track down the target, learn their patterns and come up with the best way to bump them off.

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Fox and Hulu are teaming up to create a Hitman television series, according to Deadline.

The pilot script is to be written by Derek Kolstad, creator and writer of the John Wick films, with the intention to stick as closely as possible to the mythology of the Hitman games - something the two previously released Hitman films largely failed at.

Interestingly, Deadline's report also states there are two Hitman games in development at Io Interactive. We already know about one game in development, which was confirmed last week, but the other is much more of a mystery.

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IO Interactive has confirmed that there's a new Hitman game in the works.

"We're making great progress," IO Interactive CEO Hakan Abrak said of the next Hitman in a post celebrating the launch of Hitman's Game of the Year edition, "We have exciting new features and some franchise firsts, which we can't wait to tell you all about."

That's all the news we're getting for the moment though it seems, "We don't plan to start talking about that until some point in 2018," explained Abrak.

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