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The first Mafia: The Old Country trailer debuted at The Game Awards 2024

Footage we cannot refuse

Marco Wutz

2K Games

Hangar 13 and 2K Games took to the stage at The Game Awards 2024 with the latest trailer for Mafia: The Old Country, which was announced earlier this year. And it turns out the Mafia leak wasn't true. Or maybe partly true. 2K said Mafia: The Old Country is releasing in 2025, but not when.

Anyway! The footage takes us to Sicily – the fictional town of San Celeste on the island, to be more precise – and thus very much into classic territory for the series, as the area has already served as Mafia 2’s setting.

“Through grit and determination, Enzo has survived a childhood of indentured labor in Sicily’s hellish sulfur mines,” the official description reads. “Now, through a twist of fate, he has the opportunity to join Don Torrisi's crime family, and will do whatever it takes to carve out a better life for himself. By swearing an oath, Enzo has committed himself to the Torrisi family's code of honor, with all the power and hardship it entails. He must never forget this simple truth: Family Takes Sacrifice.”

“Mafia: The Old Country is a love letter to old-style, gritty Mafia stories where players can uncover the origins of organized crime,” Nick Baynes, Hangar 13 president, said in a press release “Everyone at Hangar 13 is committed to creating the most authentic and intense story of the franchise, and we can’t wait for players to experience the journey with Enzo.”

Mafia: The Old Country has been in the works at least since 2022, though its official reveal only happened at Gamescom 2024. It will be the first new entry into the series since 2016’s Mafia 3, though a Mafia 2 Remaster and Mafia: Definitive Edition brought older games into the limelight back in 2020.

Hangar 13 wants to go back to the series’ roots in The Old Country, delivering a linear narrative with much depth.

Mafia: The Old Country is set for a release in 2025 on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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