the Hitman series is on "hiatus", in terms of developing new games, IO Interactive's attention turns to James Bond instead. So for us it's been about finding a mutual understanding of 'what is James Bond about?'"And as we've talked about," he added, "we're doing an origin [story], because one thing, to show the trust they've instilled in us, is that we're allowed to build a James Bond for the games [audience], which I think is a profound homage to where our industry is and where the medium is, in the sense that yes, it's time to have a James Bond character who was not a movie character but who's comfortably just his own game character. Whenever it does arrive, though, it will be the first major Bond game since the widely-panned 007 Legends more than 10 years ago