As promised, the Blood Money demo has been put up today.

• Hitman: Blood Money on 3D Gamers, 4players.de, Download.com, GameSpot, VGPRO and Worthplaying
  
• Virtual RC Racing on the Official Website

Get your black suit and red tie on: a demo for Blood Money is coming just after the weekend. Gamespot announces that the Hitman: Blood Money demo will be premiering on the site on Monday at 9am PDT. The sampling will feature the first level of the game, having Agent 47 tracking down a target through a run-down theme park that has been converted into a makeshift drug lab.

Hitman: Blood Money is due out on May 30 for the PC, PS2, Xbox and Xbox 360.

These titles went gold:

• Rogue Trooper
  
• Hitman: Blood Money (PC, PS2, Xbox, Xbox 360)

• X-Men: The Official Game (PC, PS2, Xbox, Xbox 360, Gamecube, DS and GBA)

A fan interview with Rasmus Sisgaard of IO Interactive on Hitmanforum indicates that Hitman: Blood Money has gone gold, though there has been no official announcement regarding the matter. Scoop:

It has been fantastic working on Hitman Blood Money. It has also been very tough. There have been many nights and weekends, where we’ve been working on the game, but all of the people at IoI are fantastic, and so it feels more like having fun than work at times. I’m writing this, the day after the PC version has gone goldmaster, and shipped to the manufacturer, and I have to tell you it’s a wonderful feeling.

It’s funny how it gets when you work on a game for this long, because in the end I couldn’t really figure out if it was a good game or not, because I more or less only saw my own levels everyday, and focused on the bugs. But when I saw the levels the other guys were working on, and they were sitting there pointing out which bugs they were fixing, the only thing I could think and say was, “Holy #¤%&! Your level is the coolest one ever. So much better than mine. The entire game is gonna rock”. And it was the exact same when people saw my levels. I guess it was something like couldn’t see the forest for the trees.

The bald, suit-wearing, and cold as steel Hitman will be back in the upcoming Blood Money sequel… which will also be out for the Xbox 360. Eidos announced that the game will also be released on the next-gen console alongside its current-gen brethren; it will feature the same content and storyline, but will feature enhanced graphics, lighting and special effects, as expected.

The Xbox 360 version will be released to coincide with the release of the PC, PS2 and Xbox versions this Spring.