Eidos Interactive
Embracer Group, the Swedish agency that purchased up a lot of recognized abilities and gaming properties in the course of the pandemic years, has canceled a Deus Ex sport at its Eidos studio in Montreal, Canada, in line with Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier.
The sport, whereas not formally introduced, has been recognized about since Could 2022. It was as a consequence of enter manufacturing later in 2024 and had seen two years of pre-production growth, in line with Schreier’s sources. Many workers will probably be laid off as a part of the cancellation.
Embracer Group acquired Eidos Montreal, together with Crystal Dynamics and Sq. Enix Montreal, for $300 million in mid-2022, shopping for up all of Japanese sport writer Sq. Enix’s Western sport studios. That gave Embracer the keys to a number of influential and common sequence, together with Tomb Raider, Simply Trigger, Life Is Unusual, and Deus Ex.
Eidos printed the primary Deus Ex from developer Ion Storm, based by id Software program’s John Romero and Tom Corridor. Gaming legend Warren Spector oversaw the event of the unique Deus Ex, merging shooters, stealth, and open-world RPG sport mechanics in a approach that, for the yr 2000, was wholly unique. The sport is usually cited as among the best PC video games of all time and a progenitor of many immersive sims and RPG-inflected shooters to come back.
Eidos Interactive was acquired in 2009 by Sq. Enix and have become the first developer of the Deus Ex sequence, beginning with Deus Ex: Human Revolution in 2011. The final full-fledged title within the sequence was Deus Ex: Mankind Divided in 2016. Regardless of promoting greater than 14 million models throughout the sequence’ lifetime, and the perennial starvation by followers and critics to see a return to the sequence’ novel storytelling and sharp critique of mega-corp management, the reset button has been hit by a quite massive company.
One other of Embracer Group’s notable acquisitions, the 2021 buy of huge impartial developer Gearbox, appears to be like to be unwinding, as properly. Bloomberg’s Schreier reported in September 2023 that Embracer was seeking to promote Gearbox after lower than three years’ possession. One month earlier than that, Embracer Group shut down Volition, developer of Saints Row and Descent, after that studio’s thirtieth yr of operation.
Ars has reached out to Embracer Group for remark and can replace this publish with any new data.
Many of the major Deus Ex titles are on sale in the mean time, at GOG and on Steam, for lower than $5.
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