2026-05-28 15:45 UTC · Community Announcements · Square_Jason
As part of our ongoing efforts to celebrate and enhance the Square Enix back catalogue, we’re reviewing a number of classic titles to see where we can introduce modern quality of life improvements. One key focus has been retrofitting Steam Cloud support, allowing players to seamlessly carry their progress across multiple devices – including PC and Steam Deck. We recently rolled out Steam Cloud Support for Sleeping Dogs and Just Cause 3 with great success, and we’re pleased to share that this work has now been extended to Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days, which is available today with full Steam Cloud
2020-11-18 15:38 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Craig Pearson)
Tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of the original Hitman game, Codename 47. It’s a date that the creators of the series appear to be acknowledging by revealing a “new project” on that day. We already know that Hitman 3 is coming out in January, and that it’s going to be the final instalment of the “World of Assassination” trilogy. So what else could it be? (more…)
2018-08-11 22:52 UTC · PC Gamer
Videogames really end whenever you stop playing them. If you love them, maybe that's after New Game + or a replay with every character option. If you hate them, maybe that's after half an hour of frustration and a checkpoint that's on the wrong side of an unskippable cutscene. That's how it should be anyway, but sometimes we just have to see the credits of a game we're not enjoying, whether out of sheer bloody-mindedness, or because we're reviewing it and feel obliged to, or we just have to know how bad it can really get. Hate's a strong word to use, especial
2018-03-02 17:16 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alice O'Connor)
Psst, hey, you, wanna see something unusual for 80p? Pick up Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days in Square Enix’s Steam sale. Made by Hitman folks IO Interactive, K&L 2 may be typical for a 2010 cover shooter in a lot of ways but I still find it interesting for: 1) An aggressively ugly look riffing on uploaded camera phone videos that are over-compressed, blown-out, glitched, distorted, and censored by video hosts. 2) Making you fight for ages with awful guns, scrabbling from cover to cover and desperately trying to grab new guns after yours runs out of ammo. 3) A stunning and bustling Sh
2013-06-10 17:00 UTC · Announcement · Valve
Save up to 75% on new Week Long Deals on Steam, available now until June 17th at 10AM Pacific time!
2012-05-09 05:30 UTC · Kotaku
Never mind that Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days was first released nearly two years ago (or that it was a bit of a turd), one lawyer in China sure is pissed. According to Global Times (via TechInAsia), Beijing attorney Liu Lin is suing Kane & Lynch's developer, Denmark-based IO Interactive, and its publisher, Square Enix. The reason? "I can't bear it, especially the vicious vilifying of our people," said Liu, a lawyer from Beijing Shuangli Law Firm. "They must be taught a lesson." Liu is seeking 10,000 yuan (US$1,585) in damages. On Tuesday, he filed the suite at the Daxing District People's Court o
2011-12-01 09:18 UTC · Eurogamer
Danish Hitman developer IO Interactive will work on new IP following the completion of Hitman Absolution. That's what studio head Niels Sorensen is reported to have told Gamasutra. There was, however, no mention of what this new IP will be. Sorensen explained that after Hitman Absolution, released next year, part of IO will go on to collaborate with new studio Square Enix Montreal on a brand new next-gen Hitman game. The rest of IO, Sorensen said, will begin work on the new IP. "When people work on the same IP for some time, I believe that there's a sort of creative drain," Sorensen told Gamas
2011-09-27 17:30 UTC · Eurogamer
A recent IO Interactive recruitment call has offered the strongest hint yet that a new Kane & Lynch title is in the works. As spotted by Gamerzines, an ad for senior programmers on the developer's website references an "unannounced 3rd person game with strong cooperative multiplayer elements." Recruits will be expected to "identify problems with existing multiplayer unaware technology and propose solutions," and "advise the game teams on how to best solve multiplayer problems." Should Kane & Lynch 3 prove forthcoming, don't look too surprised. Despite dismal reviews of 2010's Kane &
2011-09-06 17:19 UTC · Announcement · Valve
Pick up the Hitman and Kane & Lynch titles in one awesome pack for 75% off during the Midweek Madness Sale! Individual titles are also available at 66% off. Offer Ends Thursday at 4pm Pacific Time.
2011-06-15 17:02 UTC · Announcement · Valve
Today's Deal: Save 66% off Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days! Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are!
2011-05-13 10:25 UTC · Eurogamer
Square Enix is blaming a bad year on a "weak" console performance; the "continued delay in billing" for embattled MMO Final Fantasy XIV Online; the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan; and the write-off of goodwill - i.e. companies bought by the publisher now not being worth as much. Square Enix lost ¥12 billion ($148 million/£90.6 million) during the year ending 31st March 2011. Sales were down 35 per cent on financial year 2010. The gaming high points were Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days and Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2, which each sold one million units. "Our Group experienced signi
2011-05-03 08:00 UTC · Eurogamer
Few people I know have anything nice to say about Kane & Lynch. No one I've personally talked to about it has had anything particularly noteworthy to say most of the time general chatter among gamers isn't exactly on par with Shakespeare but the gist is that the series is bland, full of clichéd characters and generic cover-based gameplay. Partly I understand these concerns. The first game held some thematic interest insofar as it was interesting to explore the lives of such thoroughly unlikeable characters, but phrases and notions like "poorly structured missions", "inconsistency" and
2011-02-19 18:00 UTC · Announcement · Valve
Today's deal is The Kane & Lynch franchise consisting of Kane & Lynch: Dead Men, Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days and its downloadable content -- all at a hefty 75% off. Offer ends Sunday at 10AM Pacific Time. As always, you can go 'all in' with Square Enix Complete Pack that includes everything Square Enix has to offer on Steam today at an even higher discount rate! Complete Pack deal will be available through Feb. 20th, 2011.
2010-12-02 11:23 UTC · Eurogamer
Violent action duo Kane and Lynch will return despite the mixed reception to their previous outing and lay-offs at Danish developer IO Interactive. That's according to Eidos life president Ian Livingstone, and he should know: he sits on Square Enix's green light committee that decides which games are made and which are scrapped. "We haven't made any announcements about Kane & Lynch going forward, but we all know that Kane and Lynch are two amazing characters who have a lot of brand equity," Livingstone told Eurogamer in a new interview published today. "People like those guys, so they're n
2010-09-09 15:30 UTC · Product Update · Valve
An update for Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days has been released. The update will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: * Voice chat volume slider (frontend and in-game), which was previously unmutable. * Voice chat microphone enable/disable option (frontend and in-game). *Note: disabled by default!* This was done so that people without microphones but wrong (default) Steam settings don't send out feedback noise from their machines. People who actually have a microphone will have to re-enable this after the upgrade. * Fixes in sound to hopefully preve
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