With surprising regularity, the dog days of summer bring us role-playing games. This year, as the sun starts to beat down on us with slightly less enthusiasm and the light gets slightly lower, we’re playing Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (opens in new tab). It joins a long tradition of end …
Read More »Warren Spector to receive GDCs Lifetime Achievement Award
Warren Spector is a name you should know if you’ve ever spent time lurking around in Deus Ex, hacking things in Ultima, or painting worlds in Epic Disney. Now, that name is scheduled to be immortalized for all time on a Lifetime Achievement award during the 2012 Game Developers Conference …
Read More »The Platinum Chalice Awards 2011, Part 2 The Best Games of 2011
This article is part two of a three-part series of awards. Click here for Part 1 and Part 3. Welcome back to our sixth annual celebration of all the amazing things the gaming industry brings us. Welcome back, indeed, because now that the feel-good Special Awards and console exclusives are …
Read More »Deus Ex: Missing Link DLC out October 18th
Ready for more futuristic cloak-and-dagger intrigue and adventure? Just want to stab a few more guys in the neck with an arm blade thingy? The wait is almost over for Deus Ex: Human Revolution’s first major expansion as Eido Montreal has confirmed via Tweet that ‘Missing Link’ will be available …
Read More »Deus Ex: Human Revolution DLC The Missing Link arriving in October
Details surrounding Deus Ex: Human Revolution’s first DLC upgrade have been uncovered following a week of internet sleuthing and cryptic developer tweets. Bypassing Square Enix’s online puzzle altogether, one fan appears to have plucked a full synopsis for a new downloadable chapter entitled The Missing Link straight from the official …
Read More »Zumba Fitness reign of terror in UK charts is over, as are its chances of a record run at number one
Deus Ex: Human Revolution has ended Zumba Fitness’ insanely long stay at the top of the UK all-formats chart. One week before Zumba would have equaled the 11-week record held by FIFA: Road to the World Cup from 1998 as the most consecutive weeks atop the UK charts. But that’s …
Read More »E3 MVG 2011 Selection: Deus Ex: Human Revolution interview
With its release in late August edging ever closer, Deus Ex: Human Revolution isn’t as distant as some of the other high-profile games at E3 – but that doesn’t mean it’s any less impressive. The closed-doors E3 demo alone took protagonist Adam Jensen through multiple approaches to problems, through lethal …
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