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Developer Io Interactive Retained the Rights to Freedom Fighters over Kane & Lynch

Some properties were lost in the shuffle.
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Published: Nov 14, 2017 01:44 am

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Io Interactive, the developer of Hitman, recently became an independent studio. In doing so, there were several negotiations that had to take place with Square Enix before the company could emerge as its own. When Square Enix dropped the company, Io ended up an independent developer again after that, retaining the rights to its Hitman IP.

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After that, however, it seems that Io Interactive didn’t get the opportunity to retain some of its famous IPs, such as Kane & Lynch and Mini Ninjas. Both franchises ended up controlled by Square Enix, with Freedom Fighters and Hitman remaining with Io Interactive for the time being. Obviously, as Io Interactive CEO Hakan Abrak detailed in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, Hitman is a priority for the studio right now.

It’s not too great of a loss, however, for the studio. Hitman is truly the franchise in which Io Interactive flourished, with the sequel to the original Kane & Lynch underperforming and not a peep from Mini Ninjas for some time. Hopefully some new and interesting content is coming out of Hitman in the future, and if anything Square Enix deems a reboot of the Kane & Lynch series worthy somewhere down the line.

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Brittany Vincent
Brittany Vincent is the former News Editor at Twinfinite who covered all the video games industry's goings on between June 2017 and August 2018. She's been covering video games, anime and tech for over a decade for publications like Otaku USA, G4, Maxim, Engadget, Playboy and more. Fueled by horror, rainbow-sugar-pixel-rushes, and video games, she’s a freelancer who survives on surrealism and ultraviolence. When she’s not writing, watching anime or gaming, she’s searching for the perfect successor to visual novel Saya no Uta.
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