Hitman developer IO Interactive has introduced that it is transferring into third-party publishing, and its inaugural challenge on this entrance is a sport created by ex-Rockstar legend Leslie Benzies.
The studio shall be publishing MindsEye, a “cinematic AAA story-driven action-adventure thriller” from Benzies’ outfit Construct a Rocket Boy. You may know that studio’s title higher from All over the place, its flagship sandbox sport creation toolkit.
This may function IO’s first third-party publishing endeavor; up till now, the studio has primarily been recognized for its improvement efforts on the Hitman franchise, in addition to on different video games like Mini Ninjas, Kane & Lynch, and an upcoming James Bond sport.
To publish MindsEye, IO Interactive has established a brand new label known as IOI Companions, which it says will channel its “steady drive to create revolutionary video games” and “ship impactful leisure by means of inventive, quality-focused collaborations”.
It would not sound like IO shall be publishing All over the place; for now, MindsEye is the one collaboration between IO and Construct a Rocket Boy, and it is also the one sport IO is at the moment publishing that it is not additionally growing.
Benzies describes MindsEye as his studio’s “first AAA premium sport and ever-evolving universe”, praising IO’s “sturdy understanding of neighborhood tradition, premium action-adventure video games, and…best-in-class publishing workforce”.
On IO’s half, CEO Hakan Abrak says his studio and Construct a Rocket Boy are “like-minded” in that they each “intention to create a bond and a long-term relationship” with their communities, calling the publishing settlement “a major milestone for IO Interactive”.
As for what precisely MindsEye is, in response to a press launch, it is a “story-driven action-adventure thriller” that can characteristic “best-in-class cinematics, high-octane driving, and explosive fight”.
You might be Jacob Diaz, and you could unlock the secrets and techniques of your previous throughout a “collection of harmful covert missions”. In essence, it form of seems like what would occur should you took the open-world between-mission components out of Grand Theft Auto, which feels considerably acceptable for Benzies’ Rockstar previous.
MindsEye nonetheless would not have a launch date, so we’ll have to attend and see what sort of fruit this collaboration with IO Interactive bears.