- No new Deus Ex game this year, according to Adam Jensen actor Elias Toufexis, who says the owners are 'psychopaths' for not concluding the trilogy - 5 January 2026
Elias Toufexis has done a lot of work over the years, but to us he will always be known first and foremost as the voice of Adam Jensen, the hero of Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Mankind Divided , the best two-part videogame trilogy ever made. He didn't ask for this, but that's just how it goes when you turn in an S-tier performance in a sequel to one of the most iconic videogames of all time... Read more.
- Debate: What is the greatest boss theme of all time? - 2 November 2025
You've collected every coin. Done every side quest. Spoken to every single NPC. S-ranked every level. Now, at last, the ultimate reward: an all-out fight against one final boss complete with an epic song that usually encapsulates your hours of hard work and your character's growth into some freakishly powerful being... Read more.
- The outstanding Deus Ex: Human Revolution, a 94%-rated game with over 22K 'Very Positive' reviews, is now cheaper than a cup of coffee - 4 March 2024
Now, 13 years after Eidos-Montréal dropped its 2011 Deus Ex reboot, Human Revolution, my appreciation for just how good this cyberpunk immersive sim is has remained undiminished with each passing year, as I'm sure it has done with countless other PC gamers around the world... Read more.
- Deus Ex protagonist Adam Jensen's signature voice actor also wanted to do his motion capture, but was rejected for being too short: 'apparently, it was a lot of work to stretch me a couple inches' - 11 November 2023
Don't let insecure boys on the internet or mean people on dating apps tell you different: it's not that big of a gap between 5'11" and 6'1". However, actor Elias Toufexis recently revealed that it may as well have been a yawning chasm during the making 2011's Deus Ex: Human Revolution... Read more.
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution's flawless gameplay has aged better than its goofy vision of a future obsessed with robot arms - 6 November 2023
s a strongly self-selecting PC gamer, there have been times in my life I've tried to convince myself I didn't like something because it wasn't 'hardcore' or PC enough. For almost a year in high school, I pretended to not like BioWare games—to no one else in particular, just in my own mind palace—because I watched a loud man on YouTube say they were quite bad indeed... Read more.
- The best immersive sims are up to 90% off in a great Steam sale - 9 September 2023
The Deus Ex and Thief games are some of the best immersive sims ever made. Between the two series, you've got a slew of great stealth games that despite their age are still absolutely worth picking up today. Well, the good news is that these two series are in a great Steam sale right now, so you can nab any and all games from both for next to nothing. 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 Elon Musk sleeps next to a gun from Deus Ex: Human Revolution
- Deus Ex's Adam Jensen says "no one called" about a new game - 9 July 2023
Deus 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 game - 22 May 2023
Deus 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
- Elon Musk sleeps next to a gun from Deus Ex: Human Revolution - 28 November 2022
Twitter's new owner Elon Musk posted a photo in the early hours of November 28 of what he said was his bedside table, and it features a weapon that Deus Ex fans should recognise straight away. In addition to a replica flintlock pistol in a Washington Crossing the Delaware display case (and four open Diet Coke cans), the billionaire apparently sleeps next to a replica of Adam Jensen's Diamond Back .357 handgun, which appeared in the 2011 RPG game Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Happy 18th birthday Deus Ex - let's get drunk together What was in the box? Square Enix delivered on their holiday promise of five games for $9.99
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution is still a great immersive sim - 23 August 2021
Deus Ex: Human Revolution is celebrating its 10th anniversary today, so we're republishing this retrospective from 2018. .. Read more.
- How much Deus Ex is in Guardians of the Galaxy? - 18 June 2021
Even with my tinfoil ‘every conspiracy theory is true’ hat on, I can’t imagine a near-future where we get another Deus Ex. The series was a victim of an almighty reshuffle among Square Enix’s Western studios, as the publisher prioritised licensed Marvel games over everything else. With Crystal Dynamics tackling Avengers, Tomb Raider was handed off to Deus Ex studio Eidos Montreal—leaving Adam Jensen kicking about his apartment in Prague, reading other peoples’ emails to pass the time... Read more.
- Seven years on, Deus Ex: Human Revolution is still a great immersive sim - 25 September 2018
When I think of Human Revolution, I think of black and gold. Few big-budget games have such a distinctive look, but that’s part of what makes Eidos Montreal’s prequel so immediately striking. As a Deus Ex fan, I was sceptical when I heard a new game was in development. But then I saw those first screenshots, of a futuristic Detroit bathed in shades of black and gold, and knew the series was in good hands.  “That’s the first thing I said when I started on the project,” said art director Jonathan Jacques-Belletête when I interviewed him back in 2011. “I wanted the game to be very distinct. You see one screenshot and you know it’s Human Revolution. Art in games isn’t just about shaders, ambient occlusion, parallax mapping, or anything like that. It’s about ideas. And in that sense, the aesthetic is a crucial part of o…
- Gaming's tastiest dystopias - 19 July 2018
This month, I played and enjoyed Prey's Mooncrash DLC , where one of the game's objectives is to stash enough food and drink to escape in a supply crate headed for Earth. As I collected the items I needed, I was reminded that the developers put real effort into the types of food and drink found in the Prey universe. The packaging is beautiful. There's fun flavour text for each item. And damn, the food sounds fancy . What would happen if you had to live on the supplies in places-gone-wrong like Talos I? Below, I rank five of gaming's most notable dystopias, using no criteria other than which consumables I personally find tasty, versus what's likely to make me projectile vomit. I also touch upon the drinks options in some of these worlds, because first-person games love to get you virtual drunk so they can make the screen blurry.  1. Talos I (Prey) Art by Fre…
- The best and worst in-game books and codexes - 2 April 2018
Literature’s had a pretty good run, much of it without any fancy graphics and animations and particle effects to bolster the words. Games love text too. Text is cheap. You can paint a picture of galactic chaos or epic history in about the same time it takes to type ‘and then something cool happened’, without having to spend the next week designing armour and creating 3D characters to act it out. Yet despite centuries of practice, most games still haven’t worked out how to present all this (which let’s face it, is often there more for the writers’ satisfaction than our actual enjoyment) in a punchy, satisfying way. What works? What doesn’t? Let’s take a quick look at some of the ways games have handled books, letters, codexes and more.  Deus Ex: Human Revolution Even when you don’t affect a world that much, it’s n…
- Watch a Montreal orchestra play Deus Ex music while Adam Jensen kills people in the background - 31 January 2018
One of the most distinctive things about the Deus Ex series is its music: Hearing the opening notes of the original Deus Ex theme in the midst of the very first Deus Ex 3 teaser took my breath away, and it still leaves me all a-tingle when it plays. So when Elias Toufexis, the voice of Adam Jensen, retweeted something about "Icarus," "Embrace What You Have Become," and @ LeMetropolitain , I was naturally intrigued.  The video is a performance of the two tracks, one from Human Revolution and the other from Mankind Divided, by the Montreal-based Orchestre Métropolitain .  It's all very serious and somber, as befits a proper orchestral concert, but lest there be any doubt about the videogame connection, footage from various Deus Ex teasers plays on a large screen suspended above the musicians, complete with Nano-Ceramic Blade murders and—perhaps a little awkwardl…
- The uncertain future of games like Deus Ex and Dishonored - 15 August 2017
Warren Spector is stuck in Prey. The director of Deus Ex, who has worked on many games since labeled "immersive sims"—in fact, he coined the term in a post-mortem of Deus Ex —has been playing the modern games inspired by classics like Thief and System Shock. But he hasn't finished Prey yet. Or, as he puts it: "The crew quarters are kicking my butt." He's enjoying it though, just as he enjoyed the other recent immersive sim from Arkane Studios, Dishonored 2. "I thought they were both excellent examples of what I think of when I say 'immersive sim,'" Spector says. "They removed barriers to belief that I was in another world and they let me approach problems as problems, rather than as puzzles. I'm really glad Arkane exists and that they're so committed to the genre. Without them I'd have fewer games to play!" Spector's not the only one…
- It's time for cyberpunk games to remember how to be punk - 15 February 2017
At the start of the 1988 adventure game based on William Gibson's genre-defining cyberpunk novel Neuromancer, you wake up face down in a plate of spaghetti. Well, it's synth-spaghetti because this is the future, but that doesn't make it any more comfortable. Like the book's protagonist Case you're a down-and-out former console cowboy who has lost the ability to hack, though in your case it's not due to traumatic surgery but simple poverty. You can't afford a new computer. Hell, you can't even afford to pay for the spaghetti. Author Bruce Sterling summed up the cyberpunk genre as a combination of “low-life and high-tech,” and that's a perfect description of both versions of Neuromancer. Later in the game you have the option to sell your internal organs for cash, and hack a computer at Cheap Hotel—its actual name—to…
- Thief's brilliant subtlety is still unmatched 18 years later - 13 October 2016
At the end of Thief: The Dark Project, one of its characters muses on the future. Beware the dawn of the Metal Age, he says, looking out over the steampunk city. That line was contributed by Terri Brosius, one of the game's writers and designers as well as the voice of Viktoria (she also provided the memorable voice of System Shock 2's villain Shodan). The dialogue was a spur-of-the-moment addition , but it helped shape the series. Thief II would eventually be given The Metal Age as its subtitle, and the story of an industrial revolution overtaking the city would become its plot. That's how committed the original trilogy of Thief games are to their foreshadowing, and it's part of what makes them unique among immersive sims. In Warren Spector's post-mortem of Deus Ex all the way back in the year 2000, he coined the term 'immersive sim' to describe the type of game he and Ion Storm had cr…
- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided s Transhuman Future Feels Too Cautious For Comfort - 8 June 2016
Shower scenes seldom Make You Think, unless it’s about what exactly you’re getting for that Premium Netflix subscription, but if anything sticks out for me about the impressive yet oddly unexciting Deus Ex: Mankind Divided , it’s the sight of Adam Jensen washing his hair. Eidos Montreal’s latest presentation begins in Jensen’s new Prague apartment – a casually affluent man-den where you can phone other characters, watch newscasts that track your decisions through the story, answer emails, tinker with crafting resources, and generally get acquainted with the sleek, cadaverous sort-of-human in your charge. …
- Have You Played Deus Ex: Human Revolution? - 9 May 2016
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. Human Revolution has myriad faults, but they hardly matter to me. Square Enix Montreal’s first crack at replicating Deus Ex is a perfect example of how the right creative decisions can make up for any number of constraints. …
