Case Study: IO Interactive achieves faster monthly game releases with Perforce Helix Core

IO Interactive Has Been Creating Hitman Best Sellers on Helix Core for More Than 10 Years

IO Interactive is an independent video game development studio known for the Hitman series, and it faced the challenge of managing massive amounts of game assets, including more than 80 million files and complex dependencies between source code and binary data. Before working with Perforce, its asset and code workflows were slower and more error-prone because binaries and code were handled separately.

Perforce’s Helix Core gave IO Interactive a single source of truth by storing source code and binary files together in the same repo and changelist. This simplified workflows, reduced errors, and helped the team sync code and assets reliably, supporting continuous integration and monthly releases. IO Interactive says Helix Core is “the most important service we maintain,” highlighting the measurable operational impact of the Perforce solution.

IO Interactive

Daniel Heeris

Senior Engineer