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Report: Square Enix releasing Sleeping Dogs in August, True Crime reboot

Posted: 08.02.2012 by Technet2k

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Activision drop kicked United Front Games' True Crime: Hong Kong for 'not being good enough', but Square Enix snapped up the project and let United Front repackage the open world title.

It seems Square's Sleeping Dogs isn't referring to Kane & Lynch 3 after all but the True Crime reboot, and it's due out this August. The game was shown at Destination PlayStation.

Ward: "Gaming world is changing" and now only top tier succeed

Posted: 17.10.2011 by Technet2k

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Activision Blizzard SVP of Worldwide Studios, Brian Ward, says the console game landscape has shifted and now only the top tier of a genre can succeed.

Whereas "four or five years ago" any top 10 in a genre did well on console, now it's "concentrated on the top two" in each. Activision has responded.

True Crime: Hong Kong will be released in 2012

Posted: 05.08.2011 by JonahFalcon

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True Crime: Hong Kong - or whatever the game will be called since Activision retains the rights to the True Crime moniker - will be released next year, according to Square-Enix, who will be publishing the game for developer United Front Games after Activision dropped it.

Square-Enix rescues True Crime: Hong Kong

Posted: 01.08.2011 by JonahFalcon

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Back in February, among the casualties in Activision's massive purge was True Crime: Hong Kong, the third game in the open world series that for a time was Grand Theft Auto's rival, before Saints Row.

True Crime: Hong Kong "would of been" 80+ title, "still might"

Posted: 12.04.2011 by Technet2k

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Dan Winters of Activision reveals they did in fact have confidence in United Front's True Crime: Hong Kong, despite claiming it "wasn't going to be good enough."

The publisher dropped it over 'poor quality' back in January. However Winters says it was "tracking towards a very good game." It was a victim of circumstance.
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