Hitman's first season will have seven episodes, not six

Hitman will release in seven episodes throughout 2016, though it will still only feature six main locations. Square Enix confirmed the total number of episodes heading to the game this year in a news post for its season premiere trailer and Steam store page.

Hitman's first episode will include the Paris location and tutorial areas, and the next five episodes will deliver maps set in Italy, Morocco, Thailand, the US, and Japan, respectively. Developer IO Interactive previously said the first season of this new assassination story would conclude in Japan, which leaves the seventh episode planned for 2016 a mystery. A globetrotting finale that sees 47 chasing targets across the previous locations would fit just fine, or perhaps it will be a smaller, more directed environment like the tutorial levels.

Connor Sheridan

I got a BA in journalism from Central Michigan University - though the best education I received there was from CM Life, its student-run newspaper. Long before that, I started pursuing my degree in video games by bugging my older brother to let me play Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I've previously been a news intern for GameSpot, a news writer for CVG, and was formerly a staff writer at GamesRadar.