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Feels like there’s a Deus Ex quote I should use here
“As you guys all know, Jensen is one of the characters I’ve played who is near and dear to my heart,” Toufexis went on. “It seems I will always be associated with him and that’s just fine with me.
“Alas, his story seems done. I’m relatively certain the game that was cancelled was not an Adam Jensen story, so the cancellation angers me more than anything else because friends at Eidos got laid off. Videogame companies right now are in a weird place. I hope it gets straightened out.”
Deus Ex got canceled. This other massive game I was both acting and directing on got canceled and a third game I was acting and directing on got reworked and now starting from scratch, whole new team.The video game world is a disaster zone right now.— ᴇʟɪᴀꜱ ᴛᴏᴜꜰᴇxɪꜱ 🖖 (@EliasToufexis)February 8, 2024
Deus Ex got canceled. This other massive game I was both acting and directing on got canceled and a third game I was acting and directing on got reworked and now starting from scratch, whole new team.The video game world is a disaster zone right now.
Eidos Montreal’s unannounced Deus Ex game was apparently in the works for two years. Reports of the cancellation landed alongside news that the studio would lay off 97 people as part of on-going"restructuring"at debt-ridden Embracer, whobought Eidos Montreal in 2022. At the time, Embracer said theysaw potential for Deus Ex sequels, remakes and spinoffs, but that was during the lockdown boom and before thereported collapse of a $2 billion investment deal with Savvy Games. Embracerdeleted 900 jobs last yearand seem hell-bent onbeating their record this year.
I hadn’t quite realised till reading Toufexis’s thread above how much I miss Adam Jensen, with his razor-sharp goatee, artfully panelled jackets and bevy of pop-out appliances. Do you remember doing your firstTyphoon cluster bomb multikillin Human Revolution? Embracer appear to be doing much the same to all the studios under their watch - walking through the door and spraying pink slips in all directions.
