By Lewie Procter on March 8th, 2011 at 8:10 am.
Holy dooley! I bring exciting news from EB Games Australia. They’ve announced that, in Australia and New Zealand at least, Deus Ex: Human Revolution will be getting released on the 25th of August (EDIT: the UK will be getting it on the 26th). That probably means it’ll be out in the rest of the planet on a similar timescale, so put a big circle round the month of August in your calendar. Just five months off, so I bet Eidos Montreal are flat out like a lizard drinking getting the game finished.
They’ve also got a trio of shiny new screenshots for us to squizz at. The first one is up there, and the second two are down there:
Don’t be a dag, get it preordered.
08/03/2011 at 08:15 Hybrid says:
We’ll be getting a better game in the end so the wait is worth it.
08/03/2011 at 13:52 battles_atlas says:
What if a surfiet of cooking staff is deterimental to the soup? Will it still sell like warmed-through cakes?
08/03/2011 at 08:15 Drakon says:
Aww man, they’ve missed my birthday by 12 days, but eh, close enough.
08/03/2011 at 08:22 Dhatz says:
in my case by 5
08/03/2011 at 09:18 sockeatsock says:
only 1. AAAAAAWWWWWWWWWW YYYEEEEEEEEEEEE.
Still not going to preorder though. All those dollars! All those dollars.
08/03/2011 at 11:55 Shatners Bassoon says:
Four days for me. But we can all spend the August Bank Holiday weekend playing with the curtains closed. Yay!
08/03/2011 at 13:41 Makariel says:
9 days…
08/03/2011 at 15:27 ChiefOfBeef says:
Wait for it, any minute now. Someone is going to say it…
EDIT: Nope, no one said ‘no, in six months’
08/03/2011 at 15:27 Teddy Leach says:
The day before my birthday! I’m so happy!
08/03/2011 at 18:07 cjlr says:
Parents keeping warm in the midwinter, eh?
‘cept now I’m curious as to birth-date statistics for the hivemind. Men of War: Assault Squad came out on my birthday, y’know.
08/03/2011 at 08:16 Optimaximal says:
Who wants to bet it slips?
08/03/2011 at 09:18 The Sombrero Kid says:
Given the original release date was for February and the Publisher put it back solely to make their FY 2011 look better there isn’t a chance in hell it’ll slip.
08/03/2011 at 08:16 MrMud says:
Its a bit of a strange release date. Isnt august traditionally to much in summer for a high profile game?
08/03/2011 at 09:04 StingingVelvet says:
Publishers seem to be learning lately that releasing everything great in the same 3 month span is stupid.
Thank God.
08/03/2011 at 10:58 phlebas says:
Bioshock did ok with an August release, as I recall.
08/03/2011 at 11:23 el_Chi says:
Actually it’s quite a good move. Day of Sex: Human Resources is a high-profile, much-anticipated, cross-platform AAA title which has potential for excellent sales.
If you think about the other high-profile, cross-platform AAA sequels this year, August is pretty much the only time DX:HR can be certain of maximum exposure.
March-April: Crysis 2/Dragon Age II
April-May: Portal 2
May-June: Duke Nukem Forever
LARGE GAP (unless I’ve missed something)
September-October: Gears of War 3 (ok, not cross-platform, but why would you go up against that?)
“Holiday 2011″: Mass Effect 3
Doesn’t matter what heritage DX:HR has or how good it looks, Deus Ex is still a previous-generation franchise and would be fucking stupid to go head-to-head with those.
08/03/2011 at 12:07 Bennus says:
There’s the little indie development Battlefield 3 in ‘autumn’ too.
08/03/2011 at 16:44 Pantsman says:
And don’t forget the hotly anticipated flying car simulator, Sky Rims, due in November.
08/03/2011 at 20:13 Jimbo says:
I reckon it’s the perfect spot for this game, right before the juggernauts start rolling out for the holiday. It’s been proven that it can work well for games which have some pedigree but are still relatively unknown quantities, like Bioshock in ’07 and Arkham Asylum in ’09.
They could sell ~3m copies here if it reviews well and nobody puts significant competition* up against it, which I expect they’d be very happy with. If it does slip (I can’t see it) they need to slip into the new year, because they’ll get crushed between mid-Sept and Thanksgiving.
I don’t think we’ll see Battlefield 3 until closer to Thanksgiving, because I think EA know this is their best chance to give CoD a bloody nose.
*I guess XCOM is a possibility if that’s still coming out this year.
08/03/2011 at 08:17 Benjamin L. says:
I’m OK with that, as long as it’s for bugfixing/polishing and not because somebody decided it didn’t look enough like The Hit Games Of Today and needed ‘fixing’.
08/03/2011 at 08:20 Spatula says:
Happy to wait… by then i may actually be able to afford a game… damn babies are expensive lol
08/03/2011 at 08:51 Tainted says:
Indeed
08/03/2011 at 09:06 MD says:
Not always, you just have to know where to shop.
08/03/2011 at 10:10 torchedEARTH says:
I have never bought a baby in my life.
08/03/2011 at 10:33 StranaMente says:
That made me chuckle…
08/03/2011 at 12:09 Bennus says:
@MD read that as ‘Not always, you just have to know where to stop.’ Let their survival instincts kick in.
08/03/2011 at 08:24 Cinek says:
Bleah, that’s looooong… and I already made a preorder. ~_~
Well, there’s one good point in it – it won’t come out at the same time The Witcher 2 does, so I’ll be able to give both games attention they deserve. I really hope though they expand the game and make it as polished as it gets. :)
08/03/2011 at 20:36 mmrik says:
Yeah, I agree.
On one hand, I’m bummed that “Early 2011″ now apperantely means August. On the other hand, more witchin time with the witcher.
08/03/2011 at 08:26 Longrat says:
Squizz = Squint + jizz?
08/03/2011 at 09:33 vanarbulax says:
Ah, how our slang can confuse and amuse.
For those of you still wondering, it means “to look at”.
08/03/2011 at 08:26 Kadayi says:
Well, good we have a date but I must admit I was hoping the talk of April was accurate. Still if it’s a more polished experience for the extra few months that’s all good. Word on the street is this has GoTY written all over it.
08/03/2011 at 08:35 Longrat says:
People tend to forget that delays are almost always a good sign. If a company decides to accept the financial perils that come with a delayed release in order to make a game better, that means without any doubt that the company wants to release a game that’s as good as it can be. Takes balls to delay a release, and this delay makes me very pleased.
08/03/2011 at 09:41 Kadayi says:
Though of course that does mean DNF will be the greatest game ever made Longrat ;)
08/03/2011 at 09:57 Longrat says:
Okay, let me fix my statement:
A delay is good as long as the developers aren’t lazy sods who are too busy playing world of warcraft all day long instead of doing their jobs!
08/03/2011 at 11:04 Ian says:
The joke’ll be on you when Yahtzee’s “pre-emptive” DNF review proves itself 100% correct.
08/03/2011 at 11:10 Xercies says:
Delays sometimes are a good thing, but sometimes it has nothing to do with fixing the game and just waiting for a less busy month, in that time no work really is being done on the game probably, but work might be done on all the DLC.
08/03/2011 at 11:59 Kadayi says:
George Brossard will have the last laugh ;)
08/03/2011 at 12:56 skinlo says:
I reckon Portal 2 has potential to be game of the year, although this, ME3 and BF3 all have potential.
08/03/2011 at 08:30 Crimsoneer says:
Wow, that’s one hell of a slip. I’m vaguely hoping one of the Ubi higher ups is a DX fananatic and told them to take their damn time and make sure the release is quite literally the second coming.
08/03/2011 at 09:02 Mungrul says:
Sorry, this comment confused me; isn’t the publisher Eidos / Square Enix?
08/03/2011 at 09:06 cheese lol says:
I’m sure there are lots of DX fanatics in the development community, being the game it is.
08/03/2011 at 09:21 The Sombrero Kid says:
I’m sure he meant Eidos.
08/03/2011 at 15:31 Alaric says:
Crimsoneer, I want you to know that I hate you. You thoroughly frightened me when you said Ubi, because I loved Deus Ex and really want to play this new game, but have been boycotting Ubisoft since their latest fit of DRM knavery began. Not being able to play it would have made me even more bitter and cynical than I am right now, which, some argue, is impossible.
08/03/2011 at 08:33 Col says:
I thought it was supposed to be coming out around April? Or is that just for the Xbawgs and PS3?
08/03/2011 at 08:36 Lewie Procter says:
Twas originally set for an April release, but they delayed it.
Pretty sure it’s going to be released on all formats at the same time.
08/03/2011 at 09:23 The Sombrero Kid says:
Nope, the only release date it was ever given was February and then at the last quarterly stockholder meeting it was delayed to the next financial year for financial reasons this led everyone, myself included, to say it’d be April.
08/03/2011 at 09:43 Lewie Procter says:
Oh, my silly memory.
08/03/2011 at 08:36 coldvvvave says:
Best pants textures ever.
08/03/2011 at 08:46 godgoo says:
I was scanning these images for y-fronts before I realised that you’re probably American.
08/03/2011 at 10:01 Jamison Dance says:
Austrian, eh? WELL PUT ANOTHER SHRIMP ON THE BARBIE, THEN!
08/03/2011 at 08:37 faelnor says:
Not a chance.
08/03/2011 at 09:40 VelvetFistIronGlove says:
What a shame.
08/03/2011 at 08:41 Longrat says:
My release date is augmented.
08/03/2011 at 08:47 Muzman says:
At least this time the cafes, bars etc will be as big as they appeared in the screenshots.
08/03/2011 at 08:50 poop says:
man this “alpha protocol” game sure looks spiffy! what a shame they delayed it, but surely this means that an extra five months on the release will allow them to fix all those nasty bugs!
08/03/2011 at 09:09 Rond says:
I bet it’s finished already, and as we heard before Squenix is just delaying it out of economical reasons.
08/03/2011 at 09:13 poop says:
Verily I do declare good sir that this much anticipated “Daikatana” title sounds exquisite! more time to develop means less bugs, as my mother always said! I say!
08/03/2011 at 08:55 Yehat says:
So, within six months?
08/03/2011 at 08:59 Quasar says:
No. Within six months.
08/03/2011 at 10:56 hexapodium says:
The situation is getting desperate.
08/03/2011 at 11:51 Dozer says:
The tertiary product should be on sale within six months. It is currently undergoing preparation and will be operational within six months. My people will continue to report on it’s progress. Within six months.
08/03/2011 at 13:52 Bennus says:
We’ve had to endure much, you and I, but within the week there will be a new DX running the world.
08/03/2011 at 08:59 Quasar says:
What a shame.
08/03/2011 at 09:04 Alex Bakke says:
AUG-ust.
08/03/2011 at 09:05 cheese lol says:
I can’t wait until August so that chef can cook me something. Soy food and candy bars are sorta losing their taste.
08/03/2011 at 09:08 bigtoeohno says:
Please don’t plug eb games their the biggest rip offs going. I was in there this week trading in some dusty ps3 games when I spotted 2 yr old games with release prices. Even new releases are 10 bucks more than your average super mart thing chain. That info has blood on its hands man.
08/03/2011 at 09:12 Lewie Procter says:
It’s not really a plug, more of a source.
I would encourage you to buy it from whichever local retailer/online retailer/download service represents the best value.
08/03/2011 at 09:15 Crimsoneer says:
Thanks to Lewie I got the Augmented edition for 28 quid on Amazon awhile back :)
08/03/2011 at 09:34 bigtoeohno says:
Oh of course it just frustrating because eb started of as a great store with good (for brick and mortar) pprices as well as friendlest of geeks working the counter with a surprisingly impressive wealth of knowledge. It was for gamers. Now not 5 years on through the destructive force of franchising its unrecognizable. I realise I’m on a rant I can just remember a time when you could spend hours at your local tech store arguing over the best set up or game or simply being humbled by the IT genius who just helped you through apparently the most moronic of pc troubles who I might add would only for a moment bask in your stupidity (the internet can be harsh) all without pulling out you wallet. Hmmm
08/03/2011 at 09:24 spindaden says:
I would never normally trust a release date from a retailer, but this being posted here gives it instant credibility. What makes this supposed release date different from previous random guesses that retailers have put on their sites?
08/03/2011 at 09:31 poop says:
a french site that previously had one of those bullshit flashy official looking countdowns on the front page now has august as its release date as well http://www.micromania.fr/
08/03/2011 at 09:35 Lewie Procter says:
This isn’t just a case of a retailer placing a date on their listing for a game and it being reported as if it wasn’t just made up.
This is the retailer specifically announcing the release date. Presumably because the publisher let them.
08/03/2011 at 09:48 DoveBrown says:
Not to disparage a random French website but how sure are we that this isn’t just the usual publisher thing of screwing the guys down under with a six month later release date?
08/03/2011 at 09:49 spindaden says:
Ahh that is different then.
I was wrong to doubt your journalistic moxie.
08/03/2011 at 11:11 The Sombrero Kid says:
& Eidos Montreal said on their twitter i think the EB Australia would be announcing the date this week, i remember thinking it was weird at the time.
08/03/2011 at 09:26 MD says:
Pre-ordering is a terrible idea, and sends a terrible message to games publishers, in the only language they understand.
08/03/2011 at 09:37 poop says:
if it comes up on steam for a $50 preorder ill probably get it because about a week later they will remember I live in australia and double the price :)
08/03/2011 at 11:49 JackShandy says:
Psst. Poop. As a fellow australian, I feel compelled to mention that there are ways around the prison-camp price enforcement.
http://whatismyipaddress.com/hide-ip
08/03/2011 at 09:43 coldvvvave says:
But I can’t preorder it on Steam.
08/03/2011 at 09:44 JohnnyMaverik says:
Awww, what happened to April? :(
Ah well, if it means it’s a more polished game I’m down with it I guess.
08/03/2011 at 10:19 torchedEARTH says:
As long as they use that time to perfect the sections where you kill children and set fire to tramps then you’ll get no complaints from me.
08/03/2011 at 10:52 reticulate says:
While I appreciate more time being given to spit n polish, this is a pretty cynical move by Squeenix to prop up their financials.
Mostly I’m just annoyed I have to wait until August to play the bloody thing because Final Fantasy has gone down the crapper.
08/03/2011 at 10:53 Howard_Roark says:
Those screens look delicious. The Deus Ex series has been one of my favorites and I am looking forward to the new edition.
As for pre-ordering.. I think I have pre-ordered for the last time. With patches rolling out almost immediately and seemingly on a monthly basis, and DLC packs costing extra and announced before the game goes gold, I am convinced to just wait for the all-inclusive and far cheaper GoTY edition. I may be 6-months behind the times but I care less and less about such things anymore.
08/03/2011 at 11:55 obvioustroll says:
Ugh! It will be hot in august, playing games in hot weather is just wrong.
Not that I don’t do it.
08/03/2011 at 12:23 superemmjay says:
NOW I’m believing it, David Anfossi is retweeting the Announcement: http://twitter.com/#!/ffring/status/45020109722488832
08/03/2011 at 12:28 Tunips says:
My self imposed media blackout had apparently led me to think it was coming out late march. While this new date is a bit disappointing, it frees up a slot for one of the other games coming out soon I’ve been ignoring. Perhaps AssCreedBro, or … ooh – From Dust is supposed to be out soon.
No, wait. Dino D-Day. Yes.
08/03/2011 at 13:29 12kill4 says:
Of all the Australian stereotypes you had to go with the drinking lizard? Ugh, what a shame.
08/03/2011 at 16:36 Teddy Leach says:
Oh my god, Daddy!
08/03/2011 at 19:20 Emperor_Jimmu says:
It is good to see that the bucket continues to be a vital surgical implement in the future.
08/03/2011 at 19:47 spelvin spugg says:
Uhhh… I hope the bottom screenshot doesn’t show some sort of duck-and-cover mechanic.
08/03/2011 at 21:24 DoctorBrain says:
It sure does! It even switches to third person for you, so you can magically see over or around whatever you are taking cover behind.
Yeah, the FPS elements have obviously been casualified since DE1.
08/03/2011 at 23:41 Navagon says:
You do realise that while all of those are probably rendered using the game engine, none of them are screenshots? The lack of UI and a weapon should be a clue.
08/03/2011 at 23:39 Navagon says:
It’s looking like an absolute must-have game. But even that doesn’t make it an absolute must-pre-order game. Not with my backlog.
09/03/2011 at 01:33 Rath says:
Has anybody else bothered reading the tie-in novel? I found it rather enjoyable, if a tad fan-service oriented.