HITMAN

Hitman's episodic experiment in 2016 was bold, and we chronicled each release from March through October. Agent 47's latest contracts arrived in pieces, one location at a time, and 1,516 viewers crowded into the house to watch us master each sandbox. Four and a half hours of streaming captured the ongoing conversation about what episodic could mean—not a broken game, but a story deliberately paced. IO Interactive swung hard on a controversial model, and we were there to document how it played out.