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...

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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 :)

This should be mandatory reading for all leads. www.gamedeveloper.com/production/h... #gamedev

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

"It's honestly insane that they are attempting this, and then they seem to actually be pulling it off." - @dark1x.bsky.social, 2025 We might need to get tshirts printed with that one😂

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...

Two of my colleagues, Mircea Catana and @pbbastian.bsky.social, will share some insights into the work they are doing to bring Hitman WoA to iOS at the Graphics Programming Conference in Breda this year: www.graphicsprogrammingconference.com

All REAC 2025 content is LIVE! Enjoy enginearchitecture.org/2025.htm

Our talk from REAC 25 is now available online! You can download the slides here: enginearchitecture.org/2025.htm#4 The recording will be published in the coming days—stay tuned! Direct Links: - PDF: enginearchitecture.org/downloads/RE... - PPT: enginearchitecture.org/downloads/RE...

Co-op is coming to HITMAN. During this year’s IOI Showcase we revealed Stone&Knight, a new experience the team is hard at work on. Stay tuned for more news, Agents. #Agent47 #HITMAN

#SIGGRAPH - Save the date - Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games will be Tue, Aug 12 - a full day course in 2 parts (Part I - 9am-12:15pm, Part II - 2pm-5:15pm). Stay Tuned for the program and the speakers - the line up is very strong this year!

I have a new article! It took a long time but I think it was worth it, hopefully you'll enjoy it too. www.elopezr.com/the-art-of-p... Many thanks to @vassilis3d.bsky.social, @mokarakaya.bsky.social‬ and @angelortiz.bsky.social‬ for the help and encouragement

We have an open position for a Senior Cinematic Lighting Artist on 007 First Light. Come join us! :) ioi.dk/careers?pane...

Only a few days till REAC is here - register, log in, and soak in all the rendering architecture goodness! Program: enginearchitecture.org/2025.htm Register: tinyurl.com/register4rea... See you there!!

Hitman Co-Op is coming and we will ship WoA on iOS later this summer!

Are you ready to go hand to hand, 47? Le Chiffre from CASINO ROYALE, played brilliantly by Mads Mikkelsen, steps into HITMAN World of Assassination as our next Celebrity Elusive Target mission. Do you have what it takes to play your cards right? youtu.be/8xfmiGFIBRk #HITMAN #Agent47

In between all the 007 First Light news we also shipped Hitman WoA Signature Edition on Switch 2 today!