Square Enix Montreal's next-gen Hitman reportedly canceled, publisher responds [UPDATE]

developers have to realize that mobile games arent the way to go. thanks alot angry birds

Where is the brief case? Why i can hide a sniper on my pocket?

Good. Absolution blew. This franchise should not have even made it into the 360/PS3 gen, it was done after Hitman 2.

SQEnix/Eidos Montreal was the guys that made Deux Ex and lots of other great games, and now you put them into making shitty mobile apps?

Jesus wtf are you doing SE

Wow, a clarification that actually cleared some stuff up! They didn't say anything we didn't already know, but they confirmed some stuff at least.

Just what we need, more mobile games.

WHY IS THAT GUY WEARING A HAIR???

It was probably some good concept that billions of retards wouldn't adopt. Give them back crappy Absolution.

This image sucks

What I would kill just to see the sights of 47 in Dubai.....

*probably some other targets*

IOI should put interesting settings just like they did with Hitman 2. Blood Money and Absolution has too much "America" in it and it's high time we start to see a bit more of Europe.

hitman absolotion was way to easy to beat...Blood money and the ones on PS2 was more of a challenge

One thing I deeply hated about Absolution was the 'murcianization..previous Hitman entries took place around the globe New Zealand,Spain,Australia,U.S,China,India,Portugal etc. while 95% of Absolution takes place in Chicago -_-

make a new dues X and then ill get excited again

After Absolution, I find it very hard to care. Way to kill off an excellent concept.

they shoulda made hitman go the GTA/Saint Row route instead of stealth approach because now and days thats what everybody want and look how well GTA V did...jus imagine Agent 47 in GTA world man that shit would be crazy dope

I want a new Dead to Rights or Getaway game on next gen and I hope the bring back true crimes and not that water down sleeping dogs bullshit

While Absolution was a good game...it had some crushingly bad design choices,the fact that they eliminated the map and broke down the levels into parts was extremely disappointing...true hitman fans know that map was one of the most important elements in the previous games if you wanted to intelligently and silently murder your target as the levels were sprawling and you needed to strategize and boy wasn't it just a fantastic formula..

I don't have much hopes for the next one though as I've read an interview with the director a long time back and he mentioned that the stealth element in Absolution was fine but he found the action to be disappointing...what does this tell you?

Maybe this stops them from urinating all over my favorite gaming franchise.

I think sites just come up with stories to prod info out of the developers. This really seems like a case of that. There have been tons of false statements made by sites recently about a game being worked on or canceled then the devs show up to denounce. Genius really, but could end badly for a site if they don't watch their butts.

Get rid of that fucking instinct & bring back the good old map, seriously.

i am tired of playing with that bald guy really

Absolution was good but there were things I didn't like about it, like the instinct meter..
if I'm dressed as a cop, I should be able to just walk by all the other cops.

Some of the levels were boring too, I like levels like the mental hospital and the big Christmas party in that house in the mountains in Contracts.

well this series could use a reboot with the next gen graphics

Well thank god they're still working on mobile development, almost broke into a very gentle sweat there.

The last one sucked, so... meh.

update: story is fake

Well, at least that's all sorted then. :-)