Deus Ex Mankind Divided

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided’s Breach mode is now available as a free-to-play standalone game on Steam. Breach is an arcade-style spinoff of Mankind Divided’s stealth and hacking mechanics.

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided’s next DLC, “A Criminal Past,” will be available February 23. The DLC will take place in “an augs-only, high-security prison in Arizona.”

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided will receive its first story DLC, System Rift, on September 23rd. The DLC has players reunite with grumpy tech boy Frank Pritchard in an attempt to steal valuable data from a highly secure data vault called the Palisade Blade.

On last week’s Kotaku Splitscreen, Jason and I talked a lot about Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. Is it more fun the second time around, and is it more rewarding if you force some limitations on yourself? (Answers: yes and yes.) Read my full review here; find the full podcast episode here.

This easter egg from Deus Ex: Mankind Divided paints a grim future for Sonic the Hedgehog. Deux Ex and Knuckles will be coming to a store near you in 2029.

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided isn’t the first game to take this approach (it’s not even the first Deus Ex game to do so), but it certainly puts it in the best terms. If your game has a story, this is 100% the right way to let people go about it.

I’m not normally one for clips of developers talking over the top of their video game, but this 17-minute Deus Ex video has Adam Jensen taking a very sad shower, so it gets a pass.