In May 2011, IO Interactive and Square Enix announced that they would be returning to the Hitman franchise through a new entry, Hitman: Absolution.[48][49] A spin-off demo, Hitman: Sniper Challenge, was released in May 2012.[50] Absolution was released in November that year,[51] and, like Blood Money, saw highly positive reception from critics.[52] However, many fans of the series, including the developers at IO Interactive, felt like Absolution was leaning too far into the mainstream, as a result of which they were losing their core player base.[53] In February 2012, Square Enix opened a new Copenhagen office under the IO Interactive name.[54] The following March, this new office was announced to be Hapti.co, a subsidiary studio focused on mobile games.[55] Hapti.co was sold to Wargaming Mobile, the mobile games division of publisher Wargaming, in September 2017, and was renamed as Wargaming Copenhagen.[56]