Deus Ex

Deus Ex Retrospective

Whenever there is talk about best games of all time, Ion Storm’s Deus Ex is always somewhere high up on that list. Countless articles have been written about Deus Ex, countless playthroughs completed. Each one ever so slightly different from…

PC Gamer’s Best RPGs of All Time 2016 Edition

People love “best of” lists. Knowing this, PC Gamer has provided a timely update to their best RPGs of all time list. The criteria are nebulous at best, and the genre itself doesn’t do them any favors, but this is…

Alexis Kennedy Audio Interview

Alexis Kennedy, a writer and founder at Failbetter Games who had recently left his own studio to become a freelancer and has already proven himself in collaborations with BioWare and Paradox, joined The 1099 podcast to discuss his career in…

Choice in Gameplay: A Retrospective

The development of choice in RPGs is the subject of a long post over at Gamasutra, which charts a path from the ‘80s to present day. A vast cornucopia of games are examined in the opinion piece, which takes us…

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,…

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…