Mafia: The Old Country revealed at Gamescom 2024
The final game revealed at Gamescom 2024’s Opening Night Live event is the latest game in the Mafia franchise, called Mafia: The Old Country....
Haden Blackman steps down as head of 2K’s Hangar 13
Haden Blackman, the longtime head of Hangar 13, is stepping down from his role and leaving 2K. That’s a big change for the studio...
2K’s Hangar 13 teases Mafia: Trilogy
Remakes are all the rage these days, and 2K’s Hangar 13 studio is teasing one today with the announcement of the Mafia: Trilogy project....
Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick: ‘I’m charged with making hard decisions’
Strauss Zelnick is very efficient with his answers. When I interviewed the CEO of Take-Two Interactive last week at the 2018 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3),...
2K’s Hangar 13 opens new studio office in the United Kingdom
Hangar 13 built its rep as a triple-A game studio with 2K’s Mafia III, and now it is expanding to a fourth location with the...
2K launches Faster, Baby! DLC for Mafia III and free game demo
Take-Two Interactive’s 2K division has launched the first downloadable content (DLC) for the Mafia III console and PC game. The Faster,Baby! DLC expands the...
Mafia III postmortem: How Hangar 13 made the critical decisions in the epic game’s design
Mafia III is a great example of the glory and the pain of game development. The ambitious title took years to make, with the...
How the composers of Mafia III’s music made their memorable tunes
The first thing I noticed when I played Mafia III was the music. As Lincoln Clay, the anti-hero who takes down the mob of...
Mafia III has a gripping tale about racism in 1968, but bugs and weak gameplay hold it back
Mafia III has one of the best stories about racism in America in the historical context of New Orleans (called New Bordeaux) during 1968....
How developers created the story behind Mafia III and its lead character Lincoln Clay
After a deep playthrough, I’ve become very interested in the narrative story of the Mafia III video game coming from publisher 2K Games (a Take-Two Interactive...