Deus Ex: Invisible War

Deus Ex – A New Game Rumored To Be In Development

While it was pretty much inevitable that we would get a new Deus Ex game at some point, especially after the studio responsible for the newer entries in the series got acquired by the Embracer Group, according to the industry’s…

Warren Spector Interview

A couple months back, during this year’s Reboot Develop conference, the folks over at WCCFTech had a chance to chat with Warren Spector who, among many other things, directed the original Deus Ex. The resulting interview mainly covers Spector’s work…

The History of Ion Storm

Ion Storm wasn’t just any video game development studio – it was founded by John Romero and Tom Hall (of id Software fame), and the company’s Austin branch was headed up by none other than Warren Spector (of Looking Glass…

Harvey Smith Video Interview – Deus Ex to Dishonored

Upon departing from Arkane Studios, Raphael Colantonio left Arkane’s Austin branch in the hands of Harvey Smith, his long-time friend who worked on both the original Deus Ex and its Invisible War sequel, as well as the Dishonored series. And…

Cancelled Concepts for Deus Ex 3: Insurrection

When Deus Ex: Human Revolution came out in 2011, it became the third installment in the beloved by many series of conspiracy-filled first person RPGs, or immersive sims if you prefer. However, Unseen64, an archive for Beta & cancelled games,…

Cyberpunk: Misunderstanding the Genre

While this PC Gamer article about the recent failings of cyberpunk may only be somewhat related to the RPG genre, games mentioned in it include things like Deus Ex, Shadowrun: Dragonfall, and Cyberpunk 2077. As a result it may be…

Original Deus Ex Design Document Surfaces

Remember when we told you about Eurogamer’s “The Deleted Scenes of Deus Ex” article way back in 2013, which featured excerpts from a design document for Ion Storm’s original FPS/RPG? Well, it appears that the design document itself – along…

Deus Ex Series Retrospective Video, Part One

In anticipation of the release of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided this week, the ex-Gametrailers folks at Easy Allies have put together a video retrospective for the Deus Ex series. In the first part of it, which they have recently released,…

Revisiting Deus Ex: Invisible War

13 years after its release, Richard Cobbett went back to Deus Ex: Invisible War – the oft-maligned sequel to the seminal Deus Ex – in the hope time and a couple of prequels might have been kind to it. The…

The Evolution of Stealth Games

Gameranx has put together a 12-minute video covering “the evolution of stealth games”, and while that means that it includes quite a few non-RPG titles, they’ve reserved a few well-deserved spots for the Deus Ex series, the Thief series, and…