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Val Hull
March 3, 2017

Deus Ex Protagonist’s Name Explained

OK, this one is a bit inane, but bear with me here. During his talk at GDC 2017, Warren Spector, the man behind Deus Ex, has finally revealed what JC in JC Denton stands for, PC Gamer reports. I must…

Val Hull
February 17, 2017

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…

Val Hull
January 24, 2017

Richard Cobbett’s RPG Scrollbars: FPS Quest For Glory, RPG Inventories

Richard Cobbett’s Rock, Paper, Shotgun column boasts a couple of new entries. First one, titled A Heretical Quest For Glory, describes the moderately successful attempts of porting the adventure/RPG hybrid Quest For Glory IV into Hexen’s first person shooter engine.…

Val Hull
January 16, 2017

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…

Val Hull
January 1, 2017

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…

Val Hull
December 21, 2016

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…

GPur
December 20, 2016

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…

GPur
December 19, 2016

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BuckGB
November 15, 2016

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…

WorstUsernameEver
August 28, 2016

Deus Ex is a PC Classic – But What About PlayStation 2?

Digital Foundry’s DF Retro video series has published its latest episode. It’s an interesting look at Deus Ex PlayStation 2 port, the challenges it had to face, and how it stacks up. To my surprise, it looks like a very…