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2K Games’ Mafia series goes back in time to 1900s Sicily

2K Games is not done with its Mafia series, and we don’t mean remasters or re-releases, either. The next entry in the 22-year-old franchise was revealed at the end of Gamescom 2024 Opening Night Live, with a cinematic teaser for Mafia: The Old Country taking players back to the origins of La Cosa Nostra in turn-of-the-20th-century Sicily.

If you’re getting a Godfather Part II flashback vibe from this, that’s probably intentional. It’s one of the best parts of an outstanding movie, a period piece inside of another period piece, and surely 2K’s in-house studio Hangar 13 is making the same appeal.

Otherwise, details themselves are scant. We have no idea if the narrator or any of the characters shown are all new or if they tie into the Salieri family (2002’s Mafia, and its Definitive Edition remaster that just went up on Xbox Game Pass) or the Falcone family of 2010’s Mafia II.

It’s probably not the Marcanos of Hangar 13’s Mafia III (2016), a flawed but still compelling take on the mob adventure set in a city styled after New Orleans in the 1960s. Taking the mob all the way back to Sicily in 1900 fairly demands for these antiheroes to wind up in Lost Heaven, the series’ original city that gave off a deep Prohibition-era Chicago vibe.

Whatever the case, we will find out more in December. 2K Games said a fuller reveal is on the way that month, probably at Dec. 12’s The Game Awards, or another trailer and developer deep dive afterward.

Featured image via 2K Games/YouTube

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Owen Good
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Owen Good is a 15-year veteran of video games writing, also covering pop culture and entertainment subjects for the likes of Kotaku and Polygon. He is a Gaming Editor for ReadWrite working from his home in North Carolina, the United States, joining this publication in April, 2024. Good is a 1995 graduate of North Carolina State University and a 2000 graduate of The Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University, in New York. A second-generation newspaperman, Good's career before covering video games included daily newspaper stints in North Carolina; in upstate New York; in Washington, D.C., with the Associated Press; and…

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