Newsbrief: Square Enix has rebranded
True Crime: Hong Kong, the project it acquired from Activision last August, as
Sleeping Dogs, which it will release for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Windows in the second half of 2012.
Activision cancelled this third entry for the open-world, third-person action game after
True Crime: New York City failed to meet sales expectations. Eric Hirshberg, CEO at Activision Publishing, also admitted years ago, "To be blunt, it just wasn't going to be good enough."
Square Enix
eventually picked up the rights to the project, but not the
True Crime name. The publisher's Square Enix London Studios division collaborated with
True Crime: Hong Kong's developer United Front Games (
ModNation Racers) to complete
Sleeping Dogs.
