{"id":16571,"date":"2018-04-04T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/316133"},"modified":"2018-04-04T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T16:00:00","slug":"warner-bros-steps-up-as-hitman-publisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/04\/04\/warner-bros-steps-up-as-hitman-publisher\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner Bros. steps up as Hitman publisher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Newsbrief:<\/strong>\u00a0Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment\u00a0has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20180404005366\/en\/Warner-Bros.-Interactive-Entertainment-IO-Interactive-Enter\">signed an agreement<\/a> with IO Interactive to publish <em>Hitman: Definitive Edition<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a notable development given IO&#8217;s fairly recent split from owner Square Enix, which published every entry in the franchise from 2012 to 2016.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Danish studio and Square <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/300158\/IO_Interactive_goes_independent_secures_the_rights_to_Hitman_franchise.php\">went their separate ways in June 2017<\/a>, with IO agreeing to a management buyout that allowed it retain the rights to the <em>Hitman<\/em> franchise.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Right now, Warner Bros. has only agreed to\u00a0publish\u00a0<em>Hitman: Definitive Edition &#8212;\u00a0<\/em>a bundled together\u00a0re-release of the 2016 episodic series &#8212;\u00a0but\u00a0it&#8217;ll be interesting to\u00a0see how\u00a0the partnership evolves moving forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsbrief:\u00a0Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment\u00a0has signed an agreement with IO Interactive to publish Hitman: Definitive Edition. It&#8217;s a notable development given IO&#8217;s fairly recent split from owner Square Enix, which published every entry in the franchise from 2012 to 2016.\u00a0 The Danish studio and Square went their separate ways in June 2017, with IO agreeing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}