Publisher considers a new steward of the 17-year-old franchise The sale of Hitman developer IO Interactive doesn’t necessarily mean the end of that game franchise, according to the president of Square Enix, which cut ties with the studio earlier this month.
IO Interactive, based in Denmark, had been a Square Enix subsidiary before the May 11 announcement.
As noticed by GameSpot yesterday, Yosuke Matsuda told investors that Square Enix is “negotiating with prospective external investors capable of ensuring that these titles carry on.”
In this case, “these titles” mean whatever IO Interactive was working on before everyone was canned.