Mafia: The Old Country’s release date appears to have accidentally been leaked by someone I assume will soon be sleeping with the fishes

Mafia: The Old Country’s release date looks to have been accidentally leaked by 2K itself, via a Steam update that was put live, and then hastily undone once someone realised they’d accidentally done something that’d make an actual mob boss start delivering colouful language and outstandingly demonstrative hand gestures.

This isn’t the first time something like this has happened to The Old Country either – its reveal last summer went ok, but prior to The Game Awards in December, its summer 2025 release window was inadventently made public early via an advert that jumped the gun a bit.

That brings us to today, when – as Gematsu has spotted and screenshotted – a Steam blog post about the game’s upcoming May 8 dev panel at PAX East noted an August 8 release date.

Naturally, it looks to have quickly been scrubbed, likely as soon as whichever mob associate/associates who’d put the posts live realised that info wasn’t public yet. So, we’re left to wait for that PAX East panel for confirmation, which seems a good bet to be the point at which 2K and Hangar 13 had planned to announce the release date.

Slightly ironically given these circumstances, the English version of the PAX East panel Steam post from the studio begins by declaring: “Mafia fans understand the seriousness of breaking Omertá, so don’t miss this chance to uncover the origins of organized crime with Mafia: The Old Country at PAX East!” You’ll be able to catch it on May 8 at 7pm BST and 2pm ET via the PAX East main Twitch stream and the Mafia series’ YouTube channel.

Anyway, the game’s set to take us to 1900s Sicily rather than stateside, for some proper Italian mafia hijinks. It’s got my interest, even if it keeps leaking details about itself more often than I’m sure 2K would like.

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