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Legendary sci-fi FPS is free to claim right now, but don't wait longMar 15, 2024 - PCGamesNWe didn't know it at the time, but the revival of classic sci-fi series Deus Ex that began with 2011's Deus Ex Human Revolution was about to come to a sudden halt just five years later, in 2016. That year saw the launch of Deus Ex Mankind Divided, which didn't quite hit the same highs as its predecessor, but continued to offer a satisfying blend of stealth action and world exploration within the context of a story about the ethical and social implications of rapid technological progress. Now we have good news for anyone who's meant to check the game out: Deus Ex Mankind Divided is free to keep on PC if it's claimed soon. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Starfield, Adam Jensen actor says it's "insane" there's no new Deus Ex Deus Ex's Adam Jensen says "no one called" about a new game Adam Jensen wants a new Deus Ex game Epic's spring sale is underway, and Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is free to keepMar 14, 2024 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunThe Epic Games Store's spring sale is underway, from today until March 28th. That makes it twice as long as Steam's spring sale, which also started today. I'm not sure if that makes it twice as exciting, but here's what does: Deus Ex Mankind Divided is free to keep for the next week. Read more Epic is having a spring sale too, and to get things started it's giving away Deus Ex: Mankind Divided for the first timeMar 14, 2024 - PC GamerSpring isn't even here yet—March 19 is the official kickoff date—but already we've got two major spring sales landed square in our laps. Steam's big 2024 Spring Sale got underway today, and so too did the Epic Games Store's Spring Sale, which launches alongside a very good weekly freebie... Read more.The best Deus Ex game will soon be free to keep from the Epic Games StoreMar 7, 2024 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunI know, I know! Some might argue that Human Revolution is the best Deus Ex game, but they're wrong, it's clearly Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. The last, new Deus Ex game to be made will be free to keep from the Epic Games Store for a week starting March 14th. Read more Deus Ex voice actor Elias Toufexis bids goodbye to Adam Jensen and calls the games industry "a disaster zone"Feb 8, 2024 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunElias Toufexis, voice actor for Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Mankind Divided's cyborg protagonist Adam Jensen, has bid a formal "goodbye, but hopefully not farewell" to the character, expressing hopes that somebody with a lot of money will buy the license and restore poor moody Adam to our screens. Toufexis also shared a few parting speculations about the unannounced Deus Ex sequel from Eidos Montreal that was reported cancelled last week. Toufexis wasn't involved with this one, and according to him, it likely wasn't a continuation of Jensen's story from Mankind Divided. Read more Embracer continues its dark side run, cancelling new Deus Ex and laying off almost 100 staffJan 30, 2024 - VG247In what’s already proving to be a pretty depressing year for the games industry, Embracer Group has decided to push itself back into the baddie limelight by cancelling a Deus Ex game and laying off close to 100 people. Yes, last week it was Microsoft electing to fire an entire town’s worth of people into the sun following its acquisition of Activision Blizzard, this week it’s Embracer deciding to cut staff at Eidos Montreal and simultaneously do away with a title it’d spent two years working on. Even if it’d seemingly have been Adam Jensen-less, odds are the Deus Ex title in question would’ve been something at least a little bit fun, too. Embracer’s move to cancel the game was first reported by Bloomberg, which suggested that it was an unannounced title that was due to enter production later this year, something which obviously won’t be happening now. No other details regarding what the game would’ve been about or involved seem to have been made public as of yet, though voice actor Elias Toufexis has revealed that he hadn’t been brought in to work on it during the time it’d been in development. Read more New Deus Ex game in the works for two years reportedly cancelled, almost 100 staff laid off at Eidos MontrealJan 29, 2024 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunThe latest Embracer studio to suffer under the megacorp’s ongoing restructuring efforts are Eidos Montreal, with a new Deus Ex title two years into development reportedly cancelled and dozens of staff confirmed to be laid off. Read more Starfield, Adam Jensen actor says it's "insane" there's no new Deus ExOct 20, 2023 - PCGamesNStarfield and Adam Jensen actor Elias Toufexis, whose credits also include Assassin's Creed, Call of Duty, and The Callisto Protocol, says that the absence of a new Deus Ex game is "insane." The last main series outing for the sci-fi, stealth RPG from Eidos and Square Enix was Deus Ex Mankind Divided back in 2016. Before that, we had Deus Ex Human Revolution, the revered prequel to Ion Storm's defining 2000 immersive sim. Now, as part of a series of responses regarding a Cyberpunk 2077 mod, Toufexis shares his opinion on the lack of a new Deus Ex game. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Deus Ex's Adam Jensen says "no one called" about a new game Adam Jensen wants a new Deus Ex game We're probably getting new Tomb Raider and Deus Ex games Adam Jensen's voice actor says he's not working on a new Deus ExJul 9, 2023 - PC Gamerctor Elias Toufexis has been busy in recent years, showing up as space spy Kenzo in The Expanse, delightful rubber forehead alien L'ak in Star Trek: Discovery, and The Penguin in Gotham Knights, among other roles. According to the actor though, he hasn't heard anything about reprising the role most gamers know him for: Deus Ex prequel series protagonist Adam Jensen... Read more.Deus Ex's Adam Jensen says "no one called" about a new gameJul 9, 2023 - PCGamesNDeus Ex has been away for a while, as the last major game in the immersive sim series was released way back in 2016 with no word on what's next. While the RPG games still remain absolute classics, the actor behind Deus Ex's Adam Jensen has revealed that he's had no call to come back to the series. Combine this with the current state of Embracer Group, and Deus Ex may be in trouble. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Adam Jensen wants a new Deus Ex game We're probably getting new Tomb Raider and Deus Ex games GOG's Square Enix sale includes Deus Ex GOTY Edition for less than a $1 Adam Jensen wants a new Deus Ex gameMay 22, 2023 - PCGamesNDeus Ex Adam Jensen voice performer Elias Toufexis is, like us, wondering when we might get a sequel to Mankind Divided and Human Revolution. It's been seven years since the last mainline entry in Eidos' futuristic RPG game, and - to paraphrase the mechanical man himself - when it comes to a new Deus Ex, we're all asking for this. Lending his talents to Call of Duty, Assassin's Creed, and Fallout in the meantime, Deus Ex Human Revolution's gravel-throated star is now seemingly eager to know when Jensen will re-emerge. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: We're probably getting new Tomb Raider and Deus Ex games GOG's Square Enix sale includes Deus Ex GOTY Edition for less than a $1 Eidos Montreal are making three games, but Deus Ex isn't one of them Eidos Montreal is "now the owner" of Deus Ex and Thief games, but don't get too excitedSep 8, 2022 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunEidos Montreal, the studio behind recent Thief and Deus Ex games, say they are "now the owner of the games developed, like the Deus Ex and Thief games." Likewise, Crystal Dynamics say they have taken "control" of its Tomb Raider and Legacy Of Kain games from their previous owner, Square Enix. Which sounds like a big deal, but really both studios are just reporting a change to their terms of service and privacy notices since they were bought by Embracer Group last month. Read more We're probably getting new Tomb Raider and Deus Ex gamesMay 20, 2022 - PCGamesNFollowing its acquisition of several high profile studios from Square Enix, Swedish media company The Embracer Group says it has wide-ranging plans for the intellectual property associated with those studios. New Tomb Raider and Deus Ex games are on the table of course, but so are "remakes, remasters, and spinoffs", as well as "transmedia projects". Earlier this month, the Embracer Group announced its plan with Square Enix to buy the studios Crystal Dynamics, Eidos-Montreal, and Square Enix Montreal. These studios come with some pretty big names in gaming IP, including Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, Thief, and the long-neglected Legacy of Kain series. In its latest quarterly earnings report, Embracer says it sees "great potential" for new games and remasters across these series, which in some cases have languished severely over the past decade or more. Take Thief, for example. The last new game in the series came out way back in 2014, to middling reviews. Rumours bubbled up a few years later about a sequel in the works at Eidos Montreal, but studio head David Anfossi responded by tweeting "forget it" - the studio lacked a team or a budget for such a project at the time. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: GOG's Square Enix sale includes Deus Ex GOTY Edition for less than a $1 Eidos Montreal are making three games, but Deus Ex isn't one of them Deus Ex studio Eidos Montreal detail their online-focused plans for the future Happy 10th birthday, Deus Ex: Human Revolution!Aug 23, 2021 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunTen years ago, we were whizzed forward to the year 2027, where the light is golden, the corps are mega, and the first keycode is 0451. Deus Ex: Human Revolution came out on this day in 2011, with new developers reviving Ion Storm's immersive sim series eight years after the second game. Thinking about it again today, yeah, I do fancy a replay. Today is also five years since the launch of its sequel, Mankind Divided. How do you feel about the revival now? Read more A brief history of cyberpunk gamesDec 6, 2020 - EurogamerThe long-awaited release of Cyberpunk 2077 brings to an end years of feverish anticipation for those who have been itching to roam the streets of Night City, but it's only the latest example of gaming's fixation with the trappings of the cyberpunk genre. It's perhaps inevitable that gaming and cyberpunk are so closely entwined, given that both were birthed in the technological boom of the 1950s and gained mainstream pop culture presence around the same time in the late 70s and early 80s. The hard part is working out how to separate the games that cherry-picked aspects of the cyberpunk aesthetic - of which there are literally hundreds - from those that are, or at least attempted to be, genuine examples of cyberpunk fiction. For that, we need to nail down the genre's key tropes; namely a dystopian outlook on the near-future, an interest in alternate digital realities, drug or technology assisted human modification, and a cultural milieu in which corporate interests have long since outranked the quaint notion of elected government. Things got started pretty early, with adaptations of 1980s cyberpunk movies for 8-bit home computers like the ZX Spectrum. The Blade Runner game, rather cunningly, was licensed from the eerie synth score by Vangelis rather than the more costly movie despite asking you to fly your "Spinner" craft over Los Angeles, locating errant replicants then chasing them down in simple foot chases. An amusing distraction, but one that failed to grapple with the themes of cyberpunk in any meaningful way. Read more The best RPGs on PC in 2020Nov 11, 2020 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunLast year brought RPG gems like Disco Elysium. Was there an RPG as good released in 2020? We’ve updated our list of the best RPGs of all time to reflect the best of the past year – and there’s still dozens of older classics, too. (more…) Deus Ex games on sale, Eidos-Montréal and Square Enix proceeds benefit charityMar 30, 2020 - Community AnnouncementsThe gaming community knows the importance of uniting in the face of adversity. In this spirit, we’d like to inspire everyone to make an impact: even from quarantine, you can help those in need in the difficult situation caused by COVID-19. Eidos-Montréal and Square Enix will make a donation to Food Banks of Quebec in an amount equal to the proceeds Square Enix receives from purchases of games in the Deus Ex franchise on Steam between March 30, 2020 at 12am, and April 1, 2020 at 11:59pm PDT. The following Deus Ex games are included in this event: the Game of the Year Edition of Deus Ex (the original masterpiece), Deus Ex: Invisible War, the Director's Cut of the applauded Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and the critically acclaimed Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, the latest entry in the franchise. For more information on Food Banks of Quebec, please visit https://www.banquesalimentaires.org/en/. Stay safe and happy gaming!The best RPGs to play on PCJan 30, 2020 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunThe best RPGs have always found their home on PC, but it’s a big genre and it can be difficult to know what you should play next. That’s why we’ve put together this list. (more…) The best RPGs on PC in 2019Oct 11, 2019 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun Look! A ranking of the 50 best RPGs on PC. I know, you never asked for this, but here it is. It is 100 percent correct, we double-checked. The RPG is a broad and deep sea and fishing out the best games from its characterful waters is no easy task. But we are capable fishers on the good ship RPS, and know when to humanely throw back a tiddler or fight to heave up a monster. Enough of this salty metaphor. Here are the 50 best RPGs you can play on PC today. (more…) Deus Ex: Mankind Divided was originally going to be about a completely different characterJul 29, 2019 - PC GamerElias Toufexis has performed a lot of roles over the years—here he is in a 2005 episode of the Canadian crime drama Da Vinci's Inquest—but one of his biggest has to be that of Adam Jensen, the lead character of Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Mankind Divided. His roughed-edged voice is a hallmark of the series: "I never asked for this" is one of the most famous videogame utterances to come along in years. Toufexis has worked on other big-name series since then, including Assassin's Creed, Splinter Cell, and Call of Duty, but he said in an interview with VG247 that Jensen is still the role he's mostly closely associated with. "You can go look at my Twitter, no matter what I tweet, inevitably somebody is saying, 'Did you ask for this? I bet you didn’t ask for this'," he said. "It’s the craziest thing, the fact that Jensen got pumped into this top tier of videogame characters was very surprising." But even though Jensen is now more recognizable as the "face" of Deus Ex than original lead Paul Denton (who was also shown the door after just one game), Square Enix had originally intended the character to be a one-and-done, so the sequel would be an entirely separate game, about someone else entirely. "They called me for the sequel, and it was a great thing to hear because initially—and I don’t know if anybody knows this, I think it’s OK to say this now—initially they were going to make the sequel without Jensen. They were just going to make another Deus Ex game," Toufexis said. "And from what I remember when I was told, the marketing team said, 'No, you can’t do that. Jensen has just bumped into this,' like I said, this discussion of top videogame characters ever. 'You can’t just not make a game without him, when you have him ready to go.' And they agreed, and they continued the story of Human Revolution." The full interview is a lot of fun, particularly if you're a Deus Ex fan, but unfortunately it also confirms that there's still no action on a sequel to Mankind Divided. Toufexis acknowledged that the game's story ended abruptly and didn't quite meet expectations, and while there's no explicit connection made to its relatively lackluster reception, plans to move directly into making a third game in the rebooted series never materialized. "We were going to, as far as I know, finish up where we finished up in Mankind Divided, and continue into whatever the next game was going to be. And I don’t think that Mankind Divided shipped their goal in terms of sales that they wanted to hit. So it immediately back-burnered," he said. "But I know that they said, I knew we were going to go right into it. In my mind, I had said, ‘OK, we’re doing this one, and then we’re doing the next one.’ And then suddenly I stopped get...
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