2K Games has announced via a Facebook post that it will be launching Mafia III. It has not disclosed details about the game. They will follow on August 5. The game is made by the new Hangar 13 Games.
In fact, the publication that publisher 2K Games put on Facebook is an announcement of an announcement. The publisher has not disclosed more than the title. The first details about the game will be made public during GamesCom, the trade show that will take place from August 5-9 in Cologne. At 2:00 PM, 2K Games will release a trailer for the game revealing more about the game.
The website of the Mafia series has now also been adjusted. It can be concluded that Mafia III is made by Hangar 13 Games, a studio founded by 2K Games a year ago. Mafia III will be the studio’s first game, which is based in Novato, California. The studio is headed by Haden Blackman, who once headed the team at Lucasarts that made several Star Wars games. It is unclear whether 2K Czech is involved in the development. Under the name Illusion Softworks, the Brno studio was responsible for the first two parts of the series; Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven from 2002 and Mafia II from 2010.