You may have to wait until December to play Hitman: Absolution on your PS3, Xbox 360 or PC, but you can catch up with Agent 47 before then. It turns out Raymond Benson has penned a new tale about the assassin and Del Rey will be publishing Hitman: Damnation very soon. Hitman: Damnation is going more »

OnLive’s PlayPack has been somewhat stagnant since it went live at the beginning of February. The OnLive PlayPack is a subscription service that provides unlimited access to certain games for $9.99 a month. Think of it as the Netflix of videogames if you will. Today (March 1, 2011), OnLive announced it will be bringing a lot of Square Enix titles to its PlayPack. These games will begin to roll out “in a few weeks.”

Hitman is one videogame franchise that has yet to make the leap onto the current generation of consoles. Rumors about Hitman 5 have been few and far between, but this week has been ripe for rumors. According to Eurogamer, Hitman 5 is currently in production and will be available by Christmas 2011 at the earliest.

The lame game movie night was created with a purpose. As a game journalist and film student, I wanted to understand – to really get at the core of why game movies tend to be so terrible. So I’ve been trudging through the catalogue of game to movie adaptations, two at a time, suffering through it all so you, the reader, can watch from a safe distance. This week, the offerings were two completely lame, action-centric flicks from 2007: BloodRayne II: Deliverance and Hitman.BloodRayne II is the sequel to the delightfully terrible BloodRayne, a film so bad; it dominated the razzies in 2006. In truth, it was one of those wonderfully stupid films you love to laugh at, and the sheer weight of talent (Kristanna Lokan, Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen, Billy Zane, Michelle Rodriguez, all of whom have proven star power) made the film the ultimate “WTF were they thinking!” guilty pleasure.

The latest in a long line of videogame movie turkeys, Hitman has been getting reamed left and right by film critics. The Hollywood reporter recently posted an article listing its many flaws; from its emotionless main character (agent 47, played by Timothy Olyphant), to its clichéd plot to lame direction. Most other reviews have been more »

While releases for upcoming videogames just keep getting better, the list of movie titles based on videogames keep growing. Soon, Hitman, starring Timothy Olyphant as Agent 47, will join the list of live-action films based on a videogame. “I don’t go after video games because they are video games,” Adrian Askarieh, producer of the Hitman more »