Hitman developer IO Interactive has mentioned a variety of hot-button points, together with the impression of GTA 6’s delay, the standing of the sport’s delayed Switch 2 model, and what is going on on with its mysterious fantasy sport.
IO Interactive CEO Hakan Abrak coated these matters in an interview with The Game Business. Relating to the impression of GTA 6’s delay from Might 2026 to November 2026, Abrak stated he can be mendacity if he stated he did not care about GTA 6 shifting additional away from 007 First Light’s launch on Might 27. First Light was initially set to launch in March, which was only a couple months earlier than GTA 6 was imagined to launch in Might. Then Rockstar delayed GTA 6, and this supplied “a bit extra respiration room” for First Light.
“GTA is a large behemoth in our trade,” he stated. “We by no means want anybody ailing. They’ve their good causes for pushing it. I’m sure it’s going be superb.”
Whereas the PS5, Xbox Collection X|S, and PC editions of First Light will launch on Might 27, the Switch 2 version was delayed to summer time. Abrak was requested if the Switch 2 model would vanish like Borderlands 4’s Switch 2 version did, and Abrak stated followers haven’t got to fret about that. First Light is up and working on Switch 2 proper now, he stated, including that the delay was on account of IO’s need to make the sport pretty much as good as it may be.
“I do not wish to hear it wasn’t a very good model. To be utterly sincere, we’d like a bit extra time to get it the place we wish it to be. We stated summer time. It is in all probability going be late summer time. However we will get it out,” he stated.
Abrak went on to say that the Bond sequence has a “particular place on Nintendo,” which is probably going a reference to the long-lasting Bond sport GoldenEye for Nintendo 64.
Additionally within the interview, Abrak was requested to provide a standing replace on IO’s mysterious fantasy sport, which is in growth underneath the working title Venture Fantasy. The sport is being again by a unnamed associate, and paperwork from the Microsoft/Activision Blizzard FTC case revealed it to be Microsoft/Xbox. Given the upheaval at Xbox that noticed a variety of sport cancellations, individuals had been apprehensive that Venture Fantasy might have been canceled, however the sport stays in growth, Abrak stated.
“First of all, I am not going to reply what associate it’s. I am not going to substantiate or deny something,” he stated. Nonetheless, Abrak confirmed that the sport “is in a really wholesome place, it is nonetheless financed, and it is superb.”
Abrak additionally talked about that Venture Fantasy is “very far” into growth. All that’s identified about this sport is that it is described as a “bold new online fantasy RPG.”
Past that sport, and potential First Light sequels, Abrak pledged that IO will proceed to make new Hitman video games as nicely. “We’re trying ahead to get into the weeds with Hitman once more. Relaxation assured we can’t wait to get into the engine room and improve, invent and innovate with Hitman,” he stated.
For extra on First Light, remember to try GameSpot’s latest hands-on preview through which managing editor Tamoor Hussain stated it might be 2026’s Game of the 12 months and the perfect Bond sport of all time.