Yep, in a move a lot like punching oneself in the right nut, immediately before punching oneself in the left one to see if it's 🍨any better, it looks like Hitman dev IO Interactive might be gearing up another Kane %26 Lynch game.
While nothing's officially confirmed yet, t🥀he planets do indeed seem to be aligning into s𝔍ome infernal configuration destined to herald the invocation of a new outing. First up, K&L publisher Square-Enix the phrase 'Sleeping Dogs' as a trademark. You might remember - if memories of its protagonists' flabby arses flapping in the breeze during that naked escape level haven't caused you to permanently cordon off that part of your mind - that Kane & Lynch 2 was subtitled Dog Days. Now either we're looking at a thematic link from one sequel to the next here, or Square-Enix really is planning a game about sleeping dogs. And that wouldn't be very interesting.
Above: Not very interesting
Couple the above with the 𒁏fact that IO is currently looking for animators and artists for "an unannounced AA𝔉A game project" as well as a senior multiplayer programmer for, rather ominously, "a yet unannounced 3rd person game with strong cooperative multiplayer elements", all signs point to another bout of grimy, gun-driven bromance between a couple of deeply unpleasant middle-aged sociopaths.
Still last year's rather brilliant Resistance 3 proved that third-entry turnarounds are certainly not imღpossible so who knows? Hopeful? Or not?
