Sleeping Dogs (video game)

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March 8th, 2012 at 7:57 am -

Sleeping Dogs is a video game in development by United Front Games and is to be published by Square Enix. It was going to be the third installment and a reboot of the True Crime series, and it would not be developed by Luxoflux, largely due to the studio being closed in February 2010. Sleeping Dogs will take place in Hong Kong and focuses on an undercover operation to infiltrate the Triads. The game will be released on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2012.

Platform(s)

Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

Release date(s)

2012

Development

True Crime: New York City was met with mixed reviews and did not meet sales expectations. Although a True Crime 3 was said to be in production, these low sales numbers for New York City made Activision cancel a third game and focus on other titles. No mention of another True Crime game was made for several years. Then, on December 12, 2009, Activision debuted the announcement trailer for the series third game, simply titled True Crime, at the Spike Video Game Awards 2009. The trailer confirmed that Activision would be publishing and that a new developer, United Front Games, would be developing in place of traditional True Crime developer Luxoflux. The game was set to be released for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 by Activision.