Be Aggressive, Be Stealthy, Be Adaptive In Deus Ex: Human Revolution Still hungry for more Deus Ex: Human Revolution gameplay? You just got, like, eight minutes worth of Eidos Montreal's take on Deus Ex, but here's a little more, illustrating the myriad ways augmented operative Adam Jensen can deal with his enemies.

Our latest look at the Deus Ex prequel is familiar stuff—at least to me, as these were areas and scenarios that I played through when I went hands-on with the PlayStation 3 version of the game.

If you like what you see, Deus Ex: Human Revolution will come to the PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 on August 23 in North America, a few days later in Europe and Australia.

The shimmery outline around key items and interactive objects in Deus Ex: Human Revolution caused a fair bit of consternation amongst Deus Ex fans the other month. Sure, it’s useful, but a big glowy yellow highlight around half the stuff in the world isn’t ideal for immersion, is it? It’s the old ‘loot glint’ argument all over again… Fortunately, the devs at Eidos Montreal appear to have listened to community feedback – you can now turn the bally thing off if you’re so inclined. Below: see what it looks like without glow-o-vision.

Also made optional is objective locators, which is another nice idea and welcome nod to the more steely-jawed DX player.

Here’s their explanation of both why they have highlighting in the first place, and why they’ve decided to make it an option instead of enforced:

Hooray! Good news indeed. Thanks, chaps. I’ll definitely be playing DX3 with the highlighting turned off. I’ll also probably be playing DX3 in my underwear whilst eating Mini Cheddars, but you don’t need to know that.

Thanks, Toner.

Minimum Specifications

  * OS: Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7 with DirectX 9.0c
    * PROCESSOR: 2 GHz dual core
    * RAM: 1 GB RAM (Windows XP) / 2 GB (Windows Vista and Windows 7)
    * GRAPHICS: NVIDIA GeForce 8000 series or ATI Radeon HD 2000 series or better
    * REQUIRED DISC SPACE: 8.5 GB

Recommended Specifications

    * OS: Windows 7
    * PROCESSOR: AMD Phenom II X4 or Intel Core 2 Quad or better
    * RAM: 2 GB
    * GRAPHICS: AMD Radeon HD 5850
    * REQUIRED DISC SPACE: 8.5 GB

Now we know why there has been so much new info specifically about the PC version of Eidos-Montreal's upcoming FPS -- Square-Enix has declared it Deus Ex: Human Revolution PC Week! We've already seen the game's system requirements and first PC screenshots, but now there's word that it will support DirectX 11 features (including tessellation), two modes of 3D, and support for up to five displays simultaneously using AMD Eyefinity. PC Gamer has the scoop:

    Head of Nixxes, Jurjen Katsman describes a few of the improvements players with DX11 cards can look forward to. “We do use tessellation; this was one of the first features we started making use of with DX11. We mainly used it to improve character silhouettes, but also used it for some other objects in the world.

    “In Deus Ex: Human Revolution you see characters up close a lot as you interact with them, like in dialogues. Using tessellation to improve their look really helps make the world and the characters more believable, which is important in a story-heavy game like Deus Ex: Human Revolution.”

    The team say that they’ve significantly rewritten the engine to take advantage of the extra processing power of the PC. Even without DirectX 11, players with multiple core CPUs can expect increased frame rates. Eidos say that a dual core setup can be “up to a 70% increase” in speed on machines running on dual core rigs.

    Eidos Montreal director of technology, Julien Bouvrais says “when it comes to DX11 or AMD-specific features we have developed, we wanted to make sure they were adding to the game and not just tacked on without real purpose.”

Eidos and Square Enix announced today that the Windows version of Deus Ex: Human Revolution will use Valve's SteamWorks DRM solution. The long-awaited sequel will support SteamWorks features such as auto-updating, Steam Achievements and Steam Cloud support. Square Enix did not disclose whether the digital version of the game would support SteamWorks across all platforms such as Direct2Drive, GamersGate, or GameStop recently acquired Impulse platform.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution is available now for pre-order on Steam at special limited-time pricing of $44.99 (standard version) and $53.99 (Augmented Edition), for release on August 23 in North America. The Augmented Edition comes with a digital 40-page art book, a "making of" special, trailers, an animated storyboard of the CGI trailer, a motion graphic novel, soundtrack, and a free download of the Deus Ex Game of the Year Edition. Find out more

For a short time on Wednesday, Eidos Montreal's official website and the Deus Ex: Human Revolution site were hacked and replaced with a banner that said “Owned by Chippy1337”. The banner also contained the handles and names of several hackers supposedly involved in the attack. The hack is allegedly the work of Gnosis, the group behind the attacks on Gawker Media last year.

Square Enix confirmed the hacks to Eurogamer today. A spokesperson said that 350 resumes of potential candidates were taken from Eidos Montreal's site and nearly 25,000 email addresses were stolen.

"Square Enix can confirm a group of hackers gained access to parts of our Eidosmontreal.com website as well as two of our product sites," the spokesperson said. "We immediately took the sites offline to assess how this had happened and what had been accessed, then took further measures to increase the security of these and all of our websites, before allowing the sites to go live again.

"Eidosmontreal.com does not hold any credit card information or code data, however there are resumes which are submitted to the website by people interested in jobs at the studio. Regrettably up to 350 of these resumes may have been accessed, and we are in the process of writing to each of the individuals who may have been affected to offer our sincere apologies for this situation,” they explained.

"In addition, we have also discovered that up to 25,000 email addresses were obtained as a result of this breach. These email addresses are not linked to any additional personal information. They were site registration email addresses provided to us for users to receive product information updates,” Square Enix said. “No dissemination or misappropriation of any other personal information has been identified at this point. We take the security of our websites extremely seriously and employ strict measures, which we test regularly, to guard against this sort of incident."

Eurogamer also spoke with ”Venuism” - one of the hackers listed on the defacement banner - who suggested the stolen information has already been leaked. Logs taken from the IRC chat the hackers frequented mentioned the leak of the “src”, which many have taken to mean the Deus Ex source code. Venuism said that is not the case, and the names listed are being framed.

"We are being blamed/framed because we share a history with some of the people responsible for this hack. The main perpetrator 'ev0' aka 'xyz' has a vendetta against us over this history. The reasoning behind it was most likely that he thinks we will get into trouble with authorities,” he told Eurogamer. "He isn't responsible for the 'hack' since he is not really capable, he is however responsible for defacing of the sites and the leaking of the information.”

"The majority of the people who knew and participated in the hack are from Gnosis, the group responsible for hack of Gawker late last year, who have insisted they are not Anonymous,” he added. "We knew about the hack yesterday, and one of us went as far as to contact Eidos to try and warn them about a potential data leak. They were, however, unreceptive and insisted in the event something like this happened it would be an internal matter."

Another day, another hack.

just asking, if i buy the augmented edition, will they ship the other stuffs to here in Malaysia?