It’s not been a great day for Square Enix stockholders, doubly so if they live in the ridiculously cold north of England. First they learn that the company will be making an “extraordinary loss" this financial year as a result of a costly internal restructuring, they then learn that the company’s president of 13 years, Yoichi Wada will be stepping down (though, they may not be entirely torn up about that considering his role in the first piece of bad news), and now, on top of all that came before, they’ve learned that Tomb Raider grossly missed Square Enix’s sales expectations.

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Hitman: Absolution was not an entirely excellent game. Missing something of what made its forebears so different and unique. If, while playing Absolution, that loss was intangible, just on the periphery of your gamer's perception, then you may want to return to the original games.

Unfortunately, time isn't kind to games. Their harsh edges become more obvious, their textures seem muddier. Happily, then, IO Interactive and Square Enix have seen fit to re-release the original three games in an updated HD pack stuffed with extras.

Learn just which extras in the trailer below.

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Square Enix pulled a controversial Facebook app for Hitman Absolution within hours of it going live after it was pointed out to them that it was a barely veiled tool for cyber bullying.

You could use the app to send a private video to a Facebook friend showing Agent 47 killing them - using their profile picture and imposing it over a video template. Along with the video, you would select a reason for sending the hit and pick a physical attribute of your friend that 47 could use to identify them: one example would be having your friend killed because they were cheating on their partner and could be identified by their “small tits".

Square Enix swiftly issued an apology and pulled the app from their site and Facebook.

More on this below.

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