New Hitman 6 skipping E3, but here's some concept art.

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In latest news, yesterday IO Interactive announced bad news, which is that they're not going to be showing Hitman 6 at E3 this year, due to prime development, which are saddening fans. The good news is that there making excellent progress on the game with bigger expansive locations, and not linear like their previous game (Hitman Absolution). This is actually great news to me because I haven't played a Hitman game, since blood money.

Since we posted our open letter back in January, we’ve had our heads down working on our next Hitman game. So you’ll have noticed that we have been pretty quiet, but we wanted to give you a short update about a few things.

First up, we’ve seen a lot of people talking about what we might be bringing to E3 this year. We know the worst thing is to hope for something that doesn’t turn up; so we wanted to let you know that our next Hitman is going to be under wraps for a bit longer. We’re focusing all of our time and efforts into creating the best possible Hitman game. That’s our number one priority and we don’t want to divert valuable resources to show something before it’s ready.

The good news is we’re making great progress with building exotic and expansive locations for the new game. To give you an idea of what we’re aiming for, here’s the first piece of concept art from the game. This location is set in Central Europe and you’ll be able to explore the entire building you see in the image, inside and out. For a sense of scale, the building on its own is larger than any location in Hitman Absolution.

Joystiq