Wie dacht dat Square Enix na Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days de franchise had laten inslapen, heeft het misschien mis. Want ze hebben nu de rechten op de naam Sleeping Dogs laten vast leggen, nu kan je daar alle kanten mee op. Maar het zou niet helemaal vreemd zijn dat er een derde deel gaat komen van Kane & Lynch, daar ben ik best blij mee want dat Dog Days erg vermakelijk was, kon je lezen in mijn review van bijna twee jaar geleden.

The previous Kane and Lynch title was Dog Days, and while it struggled to receive critical and commercial praise, Square Enix has hinted that the series may not be dead after all. Eidos "life president" Ian Livingstone said as much at the end of 2010 in an interview with Eurogamer: "We haven't made any announcements about Kane & Lynch going forward, but we all know that Kane and Lynch are two amazing characters who have a lot of brand equity," Livingstone hinted. "People like those guys, so they're not going to disappear."

Also, developer IO Interactive put out a suspicious job listing for people to work on an unannounced, third-person, AAA action title in September 2011. Again, "Sleeping Dogs" could be Square's answer to Nintendogs, but for now the evidence is piling up like a stack of old laundry against Kane and Lynch.