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Hitman Dev IO Interactive Teaming With Ex-GTA Producer's Studio to Publish MindsEye​


IO Interactive is teaming up with Build a Rocket Boy, the studio founded by former GTA producer Leslie Benzies, to publish MindsEye — his upcoming AAA action-adventure game billed as a proof of concept for the studio's Everywhere platform.



IO Interactive, which is best-known for the Hitman series and is currently working on a James Bond game, will handle the distribution and marketing for MindsEye. IO Interactive Hakan Abrak says that Mindseye is "pretty far" along in development, and that the studio is currently working on plans to communicate a release date.

It was easy to fall in love with [MindsEye] because there were a lot of the parts were there and we were playing it. So they're still polishing and building things, but it's going to be a great game," Abrak tells IGN.

MindsEye was first announced in February 2023 as a proof-of-concept for Everywhere, an Unreal Engine 5 MMO that Benzies touts as a game creation system. This is MindsEye's official description: "MindsEye is a story-driven, action-adventure thriller, set in a fictional near future Americana. Featuring best-in-class cinematics, high octane driving, and explosive combat from legendary game director, Leslie Benzies. Play as Jacob Diaz, a former soldier with a mysterious neural implant who is suffering from memory loss and flashbacks."

Everywhere is conspicuously absent from the official publishing announcement, but Abrak says that it's still being made on "the same technology, in the same engine."

"The publishing deal we have is on MindsEye," Abrak says. "They are still working on the Everywhere product, but that's something that is with Build a Rocket Boy. So there will be more communication about the synergies and connections to that. But our deal and our publishing deal collaboration is on MindsEye, which is a full AAA universe in itself."

Abrak says that Benzies' studio approached IO Interactive with the publishing deal, and that the "first talks were very sympathetic and very aligned." Notably, Build a Rocket Boy underwent a round of layoffs in February shortly after raising $110 million, with a spokesperson saying in a statement, "While we have made great progress developing our products, we are now in a position where we need to make changes to the way we work across our business in order to become a more agile studio and to meet
the requirements that our projects demand."

Asked about how the layoffs have impacted development, Abrak told IGN, "Honestly, we haven't talked about that. I mean, we have had our talks with them and our due diligence and test and play-to-build, and they seem to have extremely talented people helming the different disciplines in different areas from cinematics to gameplay... some really, really heavy hitters in the industry. And I honestly actually don't know about the layoffs and who and what, but the team that is working on it now that we've been talking to the last couple of months is an absolute stellar team and we are looking forward to work even closer with those people."

Abrak is uncertain whether IO Interactive will pick up more publishing deals after MindsEye, saying that any future game needs to be "special."

"It needs to be something that we see ourselves in, not only logically but also emotionally. So I cannot rule out that we don't do something else. It's very likely or possible that we can do another publishing deal with a different partner, but I wouldn't be able to say, we have to release these amount of games and whatnot. That's not how we think. It's not that corporate thinking we have. So it's something that if it feels really right, then it's likely or it's possible that we might partner with other people in the future," he says.

IO Interactive Gives Positive Update on 'Project 007' James Bond Game​

  • IO Interactive's next game, codenamed Project 007, will feature a younger James Bond in an original story.
  • The game is part of IO's plans to potentially create a trilogy and leverage its experience working on the Hitman series.
  • Project 007 stands to benefit from the lack of recent James Bond games and stealth games in general in the market.

The head of IO Interactive, the studio responsible for the popular stealth series Hitman, provided an update on the progress of its next game that's sure to get James Bond fans excited. Codenamed Project 007, this new Bond game was first revealed in 2020, and is being fully funded, developed, and published by IO Interactive.

It's been nearly four years since IO Interactive's latest game, Hitman 3, was released to high praise, concluding the studio's rebooted Hitman trilogy that began in 2016. Just last year, IO released Hitman: World of Assassination, a compilation that bundles 2016's Hitman reboot, Hitman 2, and Hitman 3 all in one hub. Alongside Project 007, IO Interactive has also been working on a fantasy RPG known as Project Dragon in collaboration with Xbox Game Studios.

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BetterFuckChuck said:
Hitman Dev IO Interactive Teaming With Ex-GTA Producer's Studio to Publish MindsEye
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And here is their release trailer for Summer 2025.


Linear action-adventure game set in a fictional US desert town with sci-fi elements. MSRP pre-order of $60. I know IO is just the publisher, but this looks like something up their alley.
 
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It would be nice if IOI could show a bit of gameplay for the Bond game. I bet they got Idris Elba.
 
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It would be nice if IOI could show a bit of gameplay for the Bond game.
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probably still too early for them to do that. no idea when this game will release, if it does and doesnt get canned for some unknown reason at some point in the future, but a trailer may come out either later this year or next if it's far enough in development than i think
 
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I heard speculation that this would be an origin story of James Bond. Since IO Interactive is developing this, I'm expecting this to be a scaled down Hitman style game with some linearity. AFAIK, James Bond is a spy that could assassin people if need be.
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hitman absolution 2 here we come
 
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