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Hitman 3 Will Have Dark Souls-Esque Persistent Shortcuts to Discover In the end, everything is Dark Souls. Well, not really, but the FromSoftware series really has been hugely influential. Even Hitman 3, due for release in a few short weeks, has a new feature thats prominent in those tough action RPGs. A key aspect of the level design in Froms games is the idea of shortcuts, and its something IO Interactive is implementing in its latest assassination sandbox. As you can see in the above video f...

Hitman 3 Will Give Players Special Shortcuts Through Levels IO Interactive is including a new feature called persistent shortcuts. Hitman 3 is bringing a new shortcut feature to the third-person stealth shooter. "Persistent shortcuts" will reward players for exploring the sequels various maps by unlocking permanent shortcuts that give players new ways to approach their assassinations. These shortcuts are only available by searching for hidden secrets in levels--players will find things like unl...

Published: January 6, 2021 6:06 PM IST Even though in 2021 we will most probably not get to see any next-generation consoles launch, it is still going to be a good year for gamers. (Image: Pixabay) The gaming industry saw a massive influx of gamers during the Covid-19 nationwide lockdowns across the globe. In 2020, you witnessed a number of launhes in terms of consoles and games like the Sony PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X | Se...

IO Interactive Talks Life After the Hitman Series As It Preps for Bond Jan 5, 2021 14:42 EST IO Interactive has been home for the Hitman series for over 20 years. After the release of Hitman 3, which will bring the World of Assassination Trilogy to an end, the developer will be shifting focus to a new title in the James Bond universe for the time being. Speaking to Game Informer, Hitman 3 game director Mattias Engstrom says he thinks hes "going to cry" when the game is finished, calling th...

06/01/21 Comments Closed With Hitman 3 on horizon, new details surrounding IO Interactive’s latest assassination sim have been steadily trickling out as we approach its January 20th release date. With Hitman 3 being this month’s cover game for popular US gaming publication, Game Informer, we’ve been learning more about Agent 47’s upcoming caper. – ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW – One particularly interesting highlight from this preview coverage is the addition of a new Hitman game mecha...

IO Interactive has added a new feature to 'Hitman 3' that was designed to encourage players to explore the game.

January 2021 PC game releases: Hitman 3, The Medium, Yakuza Remastered Collection, and more New year. New games. Last December’s content drops brought us a slew of titles such as Cyberpunk 2077, Empire of Sin, Immortals: Fenyx Rising, Twin Mirror, and many others. But, that was then, and this is now. We greet this brand new year with January 2021’s PC game releases which include Hitman 3, Yakuza Remastered Collection, The Medium, and more. To clarify, since it’s still fairly early in t...

Hitman 3 will reduce trilogy file size to 100GB, update graphics on previous games It looks like Hitman 3 is going to optimise memory usage for the stealth game trilogy, and retroactively improve the previous two instalments. A developer from IO Interactive has commented that the upcoming game will turn IO’s work on Agent 47 into a neat little package. In a thread on ResetEra, a verified member of the IO Interactive team discussed some technical details on the action-adventure game. Perhaps ...

A developer from IO Interactive (via PC GamesN) shared some factoids about the game over on ResetEra. The developer stated: “We have managed to get the size of the game down significantly. All three games with all content will take up around 100GB. Biggest wins are because of data management and file structures and how we deliver the game so we could remove duplicate data. We also use newer and better compression for textures – that helps too.” On top of smaller file sizes, the devs at IO...

The game rises two places over last week thanks to a sales increase of 7%. The Nintendo titles incredible success has been well documented, reaching an audience the franchise has never seen before. In terms of UK boxed sales, the game is the second best-selling title of the year, behind FIFA 21. FIFA is, of course, available on multiple platforms and in terms of single platform sales, Animal Crossing is comfortably No.1 for 2020, ahead of FIFA 21 on PlayStation 4. Typically in the UK, the end-o...