Wei Shen's adventure was inspired by classic Hong Kong crime dramas, including Infernal Affairs and Hard Boiled. Two years later, it also came out for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, with a Mac OS X release in 2016. Square Enix later bought the rights to publish the game, renaming it Sleeping Dogs and releasing it on Augfor PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. Activision later cancelled the development of True Crime: Hong Kong after the game was mostly finished. Sleeping Dogs was developed by the now-shuttered United Front Games, and was originally intended to be a new entry in Activision's True Crime franchise.
