IO Interactive confirmed shortly after the split that all profits from 2016's Hitman would from that point go directly to the studio.[83] In August that year, the studio confirmed that another Hitman game was in development.[84] In April 2018, IO Interactive partnered with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (WBIE) to distribute a Definitive Edition of 2016's Hitman, which was released in the following month.[85][86] In June 2018, IO Interactive announced Hitman 2.[87] Unlike 2016's Hitman, Hitman 2 does not feature an episodic release format.[88] Published by WBIE, Hitman 2 was released in November that year.[89] On 16 January 2019, IO Interactive opened a subsidiary studio, IOI Malmö, in Malmö, Sweden.[90] IO Interactive continued its partnership with WBIE and, by October 2019, had turned it into a multi-IP deal.[91]