Alex Mueller

[BLOG] A frame analysis of Hitman World of Assassination blog.simonrodriguez.fr/articles/202... Why not start your week-end with an (excruciatingly detailed) walkthrough of how the game formerly known as Hitman III renders a frame, with explanations, step-by-step pictures and references?

Very detailed frame breakdown of Hitman WoA - As mentioned at the bottom of this article, my colleague Mircea will present a frame breakdown of 007 First Light at the Graphics Programming Conference in November!

The 007 First Light Art Blast just went live on ArtStation! Check out the work of IOI's talented artists here: magazine.artstation.com/2026/09/007-...

I know it’s been a highly requested feature since launch, with the pathtracing update this week we also added support for FSR 4.1 upscaling to the PC version of 007 First Light

Pathtracing with DLSS 4.5 is coming to @007game.ioi.dk soon!

Heading to Gamescom tomorrow, if you are around say hi! 😄

Slides are online! 😄

Happy to share that I'll be joining the Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course at Siggraph next week to talk about how we render volumetric effects in our Glacier engine & 007 First Light with Smolder! Take a look at all the cool presentations that are lined up!

I'll be at Siggraph this year, if you are there as well and would like to meet up, give me a ping! Always happy to meet fellow devs and have a chat 😄

As you might have seen there have been layoffs at IOI this week. While I’m not affected, a lot of really experienced, passionate and talented people are. If your studio has positions available, please keep an eye open for them on linkedin and strongly consider hiring them

Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games will be returning SIGGRAPH 2026... The course will be on Tuesday of SIGGRAPH, room and other details TBD. Cool talks lined up - stay tuned for more info.

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 442 - May 24th, 2026 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

Or check out John's extended video directly if you prefer: youtu.be/9JsFOTVFdw4

Techpowerup has some first @007game.ioi.dk performance benchmarks. If you want to know how the game will run on your machine, take a look:

Also, the game is absolutely gorgeous. Moderately conservative, technically, but it aims for great performance and image quality alongside strong art design. I love it.

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The takeaways from our big 007 tech interview: PS5/Pro/Series X at 60fps, Series S at 30fps, software RT global illumination, Glacier Engine upgrades + more: www.digitalfoundry.net/features/007...

❗Spoilers Ahead - Don't watch if you want to play it yourself❗ The First 13 Minutes of 007 First Light ( @007game.ioi.dk ) www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfxG...

Very happy that we were able to finally share a closer look at Smolder in the latest @digitalfoundry.bsky.social video! It is a fully integrated volumetric renderer, and it enables volumetric shadows for every light in the entire game. You'll see a lot of Smolder effects in @007game.ioi.dk

We talked to Digital Foundry about our Glacier engine and some of the tech we developed for @007game.ioi.dk. The super tired looking guy in there? That's me!

Our PS5 Pro version of @007game.ioi.dk will launch with PSSR 2.0! blog.playstation.com/2026/05/19/0...

And some more!

Some PS5 Pro 60 fps footage - It truly can't be overstated what an amazing job the team did these last couple of months to get the performance to where it is today. Looking forward to everyone getting their hands on it on the 27th! 😄

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We Played 007 First Light Early!

Three hours with 007 First Light convinced me it's a genuine game of the year contender - and maybe the best Bond game yet. www.videogameschronicle.com/features/007...

The linalg features are pretty cool but to be honest I'm unreasonably hyped for the group wave index intrinsics 😂

I'm sorry but if you have 4,000 employees and your revenue is 6 billion, you make 1.5 million per employee and if you can't make a profit margin there, you are simply embezzling it.

I've been working on something new since August 2025 and have decided to finally spill the beans: Introducing "Project Echo", a deterministic Record & Replay tool for PS5: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_sd... Please read the video description and let me know your brutally honest feedback!

Earn The Number. Watch the PlayStation State of Play trailer for 007: First Light, coming May 27 to PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC.

Mark your calendars 📅, Cross-Progression is coming to HITMAN World of Assassination on February 3rd. Get all the details on the upcoming release in our blog post and let us know which platform you’ll be completing your next contract on. 🎯 bit.ly/4pRLI3w #HITMAN #Agent47

007 First Light delayed to May 27th, 2026

Let's goooooo! Super hyped for the team, was listening to the soundtrack all day today and am really looking forward to the release :)

I really hope that AMD puts this out in official form even if it has worse quality than RDNA4 level FSR4. It would be a great way to allow older GPUs on the AMD side to get in on the ML-reconstruction train even if it costs more on them.

tonight @ 9pm EST..... i waited 3 years. 3 long years. and against all odds. it finally happened. IOI updated the PC version of HITMAN VR... to be good. we can move now. we can throw ANYTHING. we can kill ANYONE ! let's play tha whole damn game it's been so long... 🥹

Bruce Lee enters HITMAN World of Assassination as the next Celebrity Elusive target, but this time with a twist. youtu.be/Pw3G5cD0aig Play The Infiltrator for FREE until November 20th and pick up The Bruce Lee Pack. Available for a limited time only. hitman.com #HITMAN #Agent47 #BruceLee

Improvements from the Hitman PSVR 2 version are coming to PCVR as well with this patch + Freelancer is now also fully playable there! Not a big VR player myself but I know there’s a lot and you’ve been waiting for gameplay improvements and freelancer support for a while. Enjoy!

VR update is coming soon. Stay tuned for more information, Agents. #HITMAN #Agent47

State of Play presents a 007 First Light deep dive on September 3 Get ready for over 30 minutes of new gameplay. Full details: play.st/4oZz9DQ

Suit up, Agents. HITMAN World of Assassination has arrived on iOS—download now and take the contract on the go. Experience more than 100 hours of content on your iOS device for the very first time. apps.apple.com/app/id674278... #HITMAN #Agent47

Something just started showing up in the App Store 👀

Here's one for all the game devs out there www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Man, I know my outreach here is limited but I just got laid off at 2K after working on BioShock 4 for a year and a half. To say I'm gutted is a complete understatement. If anyone is in need of a friendly, fast and heavily driven animator with a lot of games experience please do let me know :)

We are looking for a Vulkan engineer to join our render team at IOI! Available locations are Copenhagen, Malmo and Barcelona. Feel free to reach out if you are interested or have question 😄 ioi.dk/careers?pane...