IO boss says surprise! Not only is 007 First Light imminent but that fantasy RPG it announced years ago is 'Very, very far' along too

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You know, amid the steady stream of murderable celebs in Hitman: World of Assassination and the hoopla around 007 First Light's imminent release, I forgot that IO has another iron in the fire—the online fantasy RPG it announced in 2023 (and which I apparently wrote the news article for. The past is a foreign country).

But it's been boiling away somewhere in Denmark (and/or IO's various other studios) all this time, and per IO CEO (Ee Eye Ee Eye Oh) Hakan Abrak in a recent chat with The Game Business, it's actually near to full-cooked.

"We are very, very far with that fantasy project," said Abrak, despite all the other plates IO has been juggling. "Bond is a very different game than Hitman," continued Abrak, "Building that core loop and th...

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