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IO Interactive CEO estimates that Hitman 3 only cost a fifth of Hitman 2016's budget because the studio was brave enough to stop making new bathrooms for every game: 'I swore never to do more new toilets'

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Hitman 3
Genres · fps
Release · Jan 20, 2021
Developer · IO Interactive
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