New games, recruitment and activity expansion are among the New Year’s plans of two of the largest Copenhagen-based computer game companies, IO Interactive (IOI) and Deadline Games.  According to the Danish paper Berlingske Tidende, each of them plans to hire 50 new employees this year.

IOI, which became part of the Eidos group in 2004, is the creator of the worldly known computer game series Hitman, one of the industry's biggest original intellectual properties. The last game in the series, Hitman: Contracts, was released in the last spring and sold more than 1.6 million copies until June 2004. The series will continue with Hitman Blood Money, to be released worldwide in spring 2005.

Deadline Games plans to launch its biggest production, the computer game Overdose, this summer. The company has spent more than 7 million dollars in the development of the new game, where players assume the role of an undercover agent who infiltrates the drug traffic community in Mexico. The company is looking for a new capital injection for recruitment of new staff and technological development.