

In 2011, these plans were dropped by Activision and the funding stopped until Square Enix took over the project, but had to rename it due to a lack of naming rights. Originally, the game was developed for the publisher Activision under the name True Crime: Hong Kong and should thus appear as the successor to True Crime: Streets of LA and True Crime: New York City. In 2014 a revised Definitive Edition was released for Windows, Xbox One and PlayStation 4, and in 2016 also for macOS. In Germany, the game appeared in a reduced-violence form the international version was indexed by the Federal Testing Office for Media Harmful to Young People. It was released in 2012 for Windows, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. It deals with the undercover mission of the police officer Wei Shen against the Triads in Hong Kong. Sleeping Dogs is an action-adventure game in an open game world developed by United Front Games with support from Square Enix London Studios.
