IO Interactive CEO estimates that Hitman 3 only cost a fifth of Hitman 2016’s budget because the studio was brave enough to stop making new bathrooms for every game: ‘I swore never to do more new toilets’

After buying its independence from Square Enix in 2017, Hitman developer IO Interactive has managed to survive in an industry of escalating budgets and general turmoil as the premier self-published purveyor of bald-headed assassins. In an interview with The Game Business, CEO Hakan Abrak explained that IO’s survival in the triple-A development tier is thanks…

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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 gets a horde mode, and one class gets a thunder hammer because the devs thought ‘it will be very cool’

A new patch brings endless wave-based combat to Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 in the form of Siege mode, alongside a host of gameplay tweaks, new cosmetics, and a big old thunder hammer for the lucky Bulwark class. Siege mode is a horde-style affair where three Space Marines take on an endless assortment of Tyranids…

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The 2025 Steam Summer Sale is live

It’s been six days since the official start of summer, and that means we’ve waited long enough: The 2025 Steam Summer Sale has begun! The Steam Summer Sale is one of the big ones—the four seasonal savings extravaganzas that punctuate every year. It runs for two weeks, and features deep discounts on literally thousands of…

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Razer Iskur V2 X review

Razer is always incredibly on-brand, and the gloves it includes in the packaging for its chairs are no exception. They’re black, edged with the company’s somewhat distinctive bright green around the wrist-hole, and it would have been so easy for the company to just throw a plain black pair in there, or even not to…

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Ring is using AI to generate video descriptions of what goes on outside your door—and to keep even more detailed tabs on ‘the routines of your residence’

Whenever I disappear back into the wood from whence I came, I’m always greeted by the glower of a Ring doorbell on the porch of my childhood home. Sure, it’s pretty neat the app notifies us with snapshots of curious deer on the family’s doorstep, but I can’t quite banish the question of how easy…

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