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.
We’ll be getting a better game in the end so the wait is worth it.
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What if a surfiet of cooking staff is deterimental to the soup? Will it still sell like warmed-through cakes?
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Aww man, they’ve missed my birthday by 12 days, but eh, close enough.
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in my case by 5
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only 1. AAAAAAWWWWWWWWWW YYYEEEEEEEEEEEE.
Still not going to preorder though. All those dollars! All those dollars.
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Four days for me. But we can all spend the August Bank Holiday weekend playing with the curtains closed. Yay!
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9 days…
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Wait for it, any minute now. Someone is going to say it…
EDIT: Nope, no one said ‘no, in six months’
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The day before my birthday! I’m so happy!
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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.
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Who wants to bet it slips?
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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.
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Its a bit of a strange release date. Isnt august traditionally to much in summer for a high profile game?
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Publishers seem to be learning lately that releasing everything great in the same 3 month span is stupid.
Thank God.
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Bioshock did ok with an August release, as I recall.
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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.
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There’s the little indie development Battlefield 3 in ‘autumn’ too.
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And don’t forget the hotly anticipated flying car simulator, Sky Rims, due in November.
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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.
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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’.
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Happy to wait… by then i may actually be able to afford a game… damn babies are expensive lol
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Indeed
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Not always, you just have to know where to shop.
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I have never bought a baby in my life.
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That made me chuckle…
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@MD read that as ‘Not always, you just have to know where to stop.’ Let their survival instincts kick in.
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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. :)
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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.
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Squizz = Squint + jizz?
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Ah, how our slang can confuse and amuse.
For those of you still wondering, it means “to look at”.
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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.
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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.
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Though of course that does mean DNF will be the greatest game ever made Longrat ;)
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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!
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The joke’ll be on you when Yahtzee’s “pre-emptive” DNF review proves itself 100% correct.
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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.
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George Brossard will have the last laugh ;)
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I reckon Portal 2 has potential to be game of the year, although this, ME3 and BF3 all have potential.
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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.
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Sorry, this comment confused me; isn’t the publisher Eidos / Square Enix?
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I’m sure there are lots of DX fanatics in the development community, being the game it is.
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I’m sure he meant Eidos.
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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.
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I thought it was supposed to be coming out around April? Or is that just for the Xbawgs and PS3?
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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.
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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.
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Oh, my silly memory.
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Best pants textures ever.
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I was scanning these images for y-fronts before I realised that you’re probably American.
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Austrian, eh? WELL PUT ANOTHER SHRIMP ON THE BARBIE, THEN!
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Not a chance.
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What a shame.
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My release date is augmented.
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At least this time the cafes, bars etc will be as big as they appeared in the screenshots.
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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!
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I bet it’s finished already, and as we heard before Squenix is just delaying it out of economical reasons.
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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!
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So, within six months?
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No. Within six months.
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The situation is getting desperate.
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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.
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We’ve had to endure much, you and I, but within the week there will be a new DX running the world.
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What a shame.
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AUG-ust.
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I can’t wait until August so that chef can cook me something. Soy food and candy bars are sorta losing their taste.
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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.
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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.
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Thanks to Lewie I got the Augmented edition for 28 quid on Amazon awhile back :)
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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
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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?
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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/
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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.
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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?
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Ahh that is different then.
I was wrong to doubt your journalistic moxie.
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& 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.
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Pre-ordering is a terrible idea, and sends a terrible message to games publishers, in the only language they understand.
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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 :)
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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
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But I can’t preorder it on Steam.
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Awww, what happened to April? :(
Ah well, if it means it’s a more polished game I’m down with it I guess.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Ugh! It will be hot in august, playing games in hot weather is just wrong.
Not that I don’t do it.
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NOW I’m believing it, David Anfossi is retweeting the Announcement: http://twitter.com/#!/ffring/status/45020109722488832
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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.
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Of all the Australian stereotypes you had to go with the drinking lizard? Ugh, what a shame.
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Oh my god, Daddy!
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It is good to see that the bucket continues to be a vital surgical implement in the future.
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Uhhh… I hope the bottom screenshot doesn’t show some sort of duck-and-cover mechanic.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Has anybody else bothered reading the tie-in novel? I found it rather enjoyable, if a tad fan-service oriented.
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