“After 13 months of full-time support and content for Hitman 2 – at no additional cost (besides what we added through the Expansion Pass), we’re now at a place where we are looking increasingly to the future,” IO wrote. “In real terms, we’re moving more and more of the Hitman 2 team to join the next Hitman game, which is well underway.

“This means that we’re expecting the November Update to bring the final major patch and set of Release Notes for Hitman 2, whilst December will round out the year with the remaining new content drops for the game, including Escalations and an Elusive Target – as well as the permanent return of some Seasonal Content.”

The November roadmap includes new Escalations and a few returning ones from Hitman 2016, a new Challenge Pack, more Featured Contracts pulled from the community, and a returning Elusive Target. Hitman 2’s final major update will roll out on November 19, which IO says will feature “more improvements, tweaks, and fixes” for the game. Some Featured Contracts and a replay of the Elusive Targets will follow throughout 2020, but you shouldn’t expect much beyond New Year’s.

IO Interactive confirmed over the summer that it’s working on a new project as well as another Hitman game (opens in new tab). It hasn’t officially named it Hitman 3 yet, but I will be very disappointed if it does not. While we’ve had four games called Hitman or Hitman 2, we still haven’t had a single Hitman game with the number 3 in its title. Please, IO. Let this third time be the charm.

You know what else is coming later this month? Some ridiculously good Black Friday game deals (opens in new tab).

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A new escalation contract, called The Riviera Restoration, comes October 3 and takes place in Miami. Another new escalation contract, The Divine Descendance, kicks off October 10 in Mumbai. Playing through The Divine Descendance rewards you with the Imperial Classic suit with gloves. Then there’s The Warlord, a new legacy elusive target hitting Hitman 2 October 11 and giving you the Casual Suit with gloves. 

Later in the month, Hitman 2 turns up the spookiness with the Halloween escalation contract, debuting October 22. The map looks aggressively Halloweeny, set around a foggy graveyard with scarecrows and skeletons scattered about. The Halloween event includes two unique unlocks, but developer IO Interactive isn’t ready to reveal what they are or where the event takes place.

Three new Halloween-themed challenge packs are also coming to Hitman 2 on October 22, including Himmapan Horror, Master Scarecrow, and Master Vampire. The new challenge packs come with three new unlocks: the TAC-4 S/A Jungle rifle, the Antique Lethal Syringe, and the new Sedative Modern Syringe. The Serial Killer elusive target joins the festivities October 25, and IO says we’ll learn more about this as we approach its release. And that’s not all.

The Eccleston Illumination and The Yuuma Tenacity are two new legacy escalation contracts coming October 22. Finally, The Uninvited Challenge Pack arrives on Halloween, “themed around classic horror movies.” Completing the challenge pack unlocks Red-Tie Kiwi, and the reveal trailer describes it best: a “creepy, distracting toy.”

Earlier in the year IO Interactive teased an episodic Hitman 3 and a new IP (opens in new tab). 

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Didn’t catch it? Don’t worry, we’ve got the full accolades trailer in all its gory glory right here, so check out the video above to see what you missed. If you haven’t yet heard, Hitman 2 is another season for IO Interactive’s excellent reboot of the classic assassination franchise, in which players navigate a series of sprawling sandboxes to kill their targets as Agent 47 through any means possible.

Fans of the 2016’s Hitman (opens in new tab) will be pleased to know that the emergent level design and airtight stealth gameplay is back in full form for Hitman 2, allowing your Agent 47 to once again get truly creative with his executions. Send targets straight to the grim reaper via explosive rubber ducks, giant fish, or those iconic Silverballer pistols… the choice is yours.

As mentioned, Hitman 2 is already out on PC, PS4, and Xbox One, so if this trailer has left you hankering for the art of assassination, feel free to pick up your fresh copy of the game right now. If not, then feel free to watch the rest of the Golden Joystick Awards live on Twitch (opens in new tab), or keep an eye out on GamesRadar for coverage of all the latest news out of the show before it wraps up.

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