a-brand-new-deus-ex-is-reported-to-be-in-‘very-early’-improvement-at-eidos-montreal

At the moment’s announcement of the closure of Studio Onoma got here as an actual shock—the identify was solely given to the studio previously referred to as Sq. Enix Montreal a number of weeks in the past. However amidst that unlucky information was a really faint, distant spot of sunshine for Deus Ex followers: In keeping with Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, work on a brand new game within the Deus Ex collection has begun.

Deus Ex developer Eidos Montreal, which Embracer acquired in August, remains to be intact, in keeping with the report, and a few workers of Onoma might be transferred there. A “Stranger Issues-inspired” game that was reportedly in improvement at Eidos has been cancelled, however the studio is now engaged on a “just lately rescoped” new property, is partnering with Xbox on video games together with the brand new Fable, and has a brand new Deus Ex game “very very early” in improvement.

The report comes a number of months after Large Bomb’s Jeff Grubb (through GamesRadar) mentioned Eidos Montreal “desires to instantly get again into Deus Ex.” That did not appear prone to occur below Sq. Enix, which has stored the collection on ice since Deus Ex: Mankind Divided in 2016 and in the end offloaded it to Embracer Group, together with Tomb Raider and the studios that make them, for what struck me as a hearth sale worth. However Embracer has expressed curiosity in carrying on with the collection, and it additionally appears considerably extra consequential since Eidos Montreal made a degree of saying in September that it “is now the proprietor of the video games it developed,” together with Deus Ex and Thief, which had been owned by Sq. Enix previous to the Embracer acquisition.

One one that apparently doesn’t have an inside scoop on the state of affairs is actor Elias Toufexis, who voiced lead character Adam Jensen in Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Mankind Divided. Considerably sarcastically, given what’s undoubtedly probably the most well-known line uttered by Jensen within the video games, Toufexis would love followers to cease asking him about this.

“I’m glad they’re (seemingly?) engaged on a brand new DeusEx,” he tweeted. “Please cease asking me as a result of I don’t know something about it or if Adam Jensen is even going to be part of it. I like the collection and I hope to play Jensen once more. I’ve zero data!”

See extra

Toufexis clarified in a followup tweet that he does not dislike the eye that follows each new point out of Deus Ex or Adam Jensen, “I simply want I had some solutions.”

As a long-suffering Deus Ex fan myself, I want he had solutions too—so long as no less than a type of solutions is, “Sure, they’re positively making a brand new Deus Ex,” that’s. I’ve reached out to Eidos to ask if it is actually occurring, and can update if I obtain a reply.

This was such a superb teaser.