- Steam Cloud Support - 28 May 2026
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 support functionality.While this update currently applies to a select number of titles, we’re continuing to explore opportunities to expand these enhancements across more of the Square Enix catalogue over time.If you experience any issues with this update, please let us know via the Steam Community…
- Hitman developer IO Interactive will reveal a “new project” tomorrow - 18 November 2020
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…)
- What game did you finish despite hating every minute of it? - 11 August 2018
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, especially for a videogame. And yet, sometimes they really do shit us to tears. This week's PCG Q&A asks the question: What game did you finish despite hating every minute of it? Samuel Roberts: Final Fantasy XIII-2 I finally beat this Square Enix RPG last weekend, after reaching the game's final…
- Kane & Lynch 2 is well worth a go for 80p - 2 March 2018
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 Shanghai. 3) That bit where they’re naked and drenched in blood. (more…)
- New Week Long Deals Available on Steam! - 10 June 2013
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- Kane & Lynch Developers Sued for Defaming Chinese People - 9 May 2012
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 of Beijing. The court, however, has not decided whether it will hear the case. As the Global Times pointed out, Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days is set in Shanghai, and it doesn't exactly depict the city—or the Chinese people—in the best light. It doesn't depict video games in the best light ei…
- Hitman dev IO making new IP after Absolution - 1 December 2011
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 Gamasutra. "Thankfully we managed to make sure we keep focusing on different IPs and keeping people fresh." "We've built an incubation department whose focus is work on new IP and prototypes, and all sorts of things for existing and new IP. And that's a really interesting sort of secret place where the…
- IO job ads hint at Kane & Lynch 3 - 27 September 2011
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 & Lynch 2: Dog Days , Square Enix exec Ian Livingstone last year suggested that the franchise was far from dead and buried . "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. People like those guy…
- Midweek Madness - Kane & Lynch/Hitman Bundle 75% off! - 6 September 2011
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.
- Daily Deal - Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days 66% off! - 15 June 2011
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- Square Enix blames bad year on FFXIV - 13 May 2011
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 significantly lower sales and profit during the fiscal year mainly due to weak performance of console game titles released during the year as well as the impact of a continued delay in billing for a key online title, which was newly launched during the year," commented Square Enix boss Yoichi Wada. Final Fa…
- Why I Love... Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days - 3 May 2011
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 "broken gameplay scenarios," were common among reviews for good reasons, and the whole South American derailing in the final third was more than a little ridiculous. Io's narrative chops also seem to be more on par with Tony Scott than Michael Mann, meaning the developers have mostly squandered any opp…
- Square Enix Week Sale - Day 6 - 19 February 2011
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.
- Eidos: Kane & Lynch "will not disappear" - 2 December 2010
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 not going to disappear." Eurogamer's Lane & Lynch 2 review turned up a 4/10 , but others have gone higher. Despite mixed reviews, Kane & Lynch 2 did the business for publisher Square Enix. It went straight in at number one in the all-formats UK chart. "Kane & Lynch 2 clearly had a Marmite effect on peop…
- Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days Updated - 9 September 2010
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 prevent crashes on startup regarding OpenAL; * Fixes in lobby behavior to prevent players from crashing;
- Kane & Lynch Gets A Triple Dose Of Dog Days DLC - 1 September 2010
If you missed out on the preorder bonuses for Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days, fret not! Square Enix is more than happy to sell them to you as part of three packs of downloadable content going on sale today. All in all, Square Enix is releasing $11 worth of Kane & Lynch 2 downloadable content today between the Doggie Bag, Alliance Weapons, and Multiplayer Masks packs. The Doggie Bag pack, which will set you back 560 Microsoft points or $5.99, consists of two brand new multiplayer maps, Dockyard and High Rise, plus the previously preorder-only Radio Tower map, along with five new weapons: the DD 33, KL Viper, RTS, SMi 69, and the TOQ Model Four S. The Alliance Weapons pack packages seven preorder weapons into one $2.99/240 Microsoft point pack. The pack includes the Doretta Silenced, Steele 870, TOQ SBR, Kaliningrad 47, PAC 10 silenced, N 77P Silenced, and the TOQ Elite. Or for $1.99 or 160 Mic…
- New Release - Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days Multiplayer DLC - 1 September 2010
Three new DLC Packs have been released for Kane & Lynch 2 today. The Doggie Bag Pack - Take on new heists and unlock new Achievements with two never before seen maps and five exclusive weapons for Multiplayer and Arcade modes. Dockyard and High Rise maps, plus the Radio Tower map provide new opportunity to increase your wealth. And with the inclusion of five new weapons, including the DD 33, KL Viper, RTS, SMi 69, and the TOQ Model Four S the odds are in your favor of pulling off a successful heist. Alliance Weapon Pack - Increase your weapons arsenal with seven powerful new weapons for all Multiplayer modes and Arcade mode. A mix of handguns, shotguns and assault rifles the new weapons include: Doretta Silenced, Steele 870, TOQ SBR, Kaliningrad 47, PAC 10 silenced, N 77P Silenced, TOQ Elite. Multiplayer Masks Pack - Conceal your identity and avoid revenge attacks with 8 costume masks s…
- New Release - Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days - 19 August 2010
Kand & Lynch 2 is now available on Steam! Play as two of gaming's most disturbing and realistic criminals; Lynch – a self medicated psychopath - and Kane - a disillusioned and desperate ex-mercenary, in a gritty and brutal crime shooter from IO Interactive. Kane and Lynch face the consequences of their actions when a simple job gone wrong finds them on a desperate and frantic struggle to escape. Experience their fight to survive through the back streets and rooftops of Shanghai’s gritty underworld. They can trust no one, not even each other as the cracks begin to appear in Lynch’s sanity and Kane’s stability. Enjoy the pure adrenaline rush of non-stop action in Single Player, online & offline Co-op, and Multiplayer. New and unique Fragile Alliance multiplayer game modes provide an experience to suit all criminal minds.
- Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days Review: Grime Story - 17 August 2010
Partners in crime, Kane and Lynch, meet in Shanghai for one more score. An arms deal goes—how else?—horribly wrong, resulting in death, double-dealings and grisly torture. Kane & Lynch 2 made me sick, perhaps my favorite part. Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days tells the gritty, foul-mouthed and bloody tale of Lynch's life turned upside-down after the arrival of Kane and their ensuing escape from China. The third-person shooter from the Hitman development team is presented documentary style, as if viewed on a third-hand VHS tape. Every aspect is coated with a stylish filter that impresses, but also contributed to that aforementioned motion sickness. Dog Days excels at looking bad, putting the player in a slimy world they'd never want to visit in real life. The sequel to 2007's Kane & Lynch: Dead Men improves upon many of that game's worst points—the cover system is much improved…
- Kane & Lynch 2 - 10% Off Pre-Purchase Deal - 26 July 2010
Experience the demo, Pre-order now , and Save! Play as two of gaming's most disturbing and realistic criminals; Lynch – a self medicated psychopath - and Kane - a disillusioned and desperate ex-mercenary, in a gritty and brutal crime shooter from IO Interactive.
