Tag: deus ex
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Video Games You Will Never Play
It includes analysis of over 200 cancelled games and projects, including Jade Empire 2, the port of Halo to Nintendo DS and the Sleeping Giants RPG created by Warren Spector’s Junction Point Studios.
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The Deleted Scenes of Deus Ex: Insurrection
In 2014 I spent six months researching two cancelled Deus Ex games that had been in production at Ion Storm Austin before it collapsed. Neither of the games were announced at the time, but with help from the Dolph Briscoe Archive at the University of Texas I was able to uncover design documents, concept art…
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Videobrains: Easter Eggs
Hello. I’m Joe Martin, a semi-retired games journalist who writes mainly about why writers should not work for free and stuff that gets cut from games before they’re released. But today I’m here to talk about secret things that developers leave in their games – or what we call Easter Eggs…
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VideoBrains: The Deleted Scenes Video
If you didn’t fancy reading the transcript of my VideoBrains talk, The Deleted Scenes of Disney, Doom and Deus Ex, then you now have the option to watch the video instead. I actually lost my presentation notes immediately before the talk, so I end up rambling an awful lot and maintain a numbing monotone throughout. Sorry…
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The Deleted Scenes of Disney, Doom and Deus Ex
In 2014 I spoke at VideoBrains in London and shared never-seen-before design documents for a cancelled Deus Ex game. I also talked about the early prototypes of Doom by id Software and warned about the importance of game preservation and documentation. The lecture was based on two articles I wrote for Eurogamer about Ion Storm’s Lost Deus…