Hitman Release Date Announced At E3 2015

At Square Enix's press conference this morning, developer IO Interactive announced the release date for Hitman, the next game in the long-running stealth series. Hitman will have a digital release on December 8, 2015.

However, Hitman will be receiving new kinds of content after it releases in a manner similar to episodic games. IO Interactive says new assassination contracts, new locations, and new gameplay mechanics will be made available over time. Some of these assassination contracts will only appear once, within a small time window--the example given was 48 hours. Players will only have one chance to attempt these assassination contracts. Square Enix says the game's storyline will "conclude in 2016" in this fashion.

Hitman will launch on Xbox One, PC, and PS4.