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This week in games: Play Prey as a toilet paper roll, install Doom on a Porsche, and more
We already wrote about it earlier this week but here's a reminder: The Ghost Recon Wildlands demo marketing stunt open beta runs this weekend, so if you're bored on Saturday and want to give the game a spin before plunking down $60, now's your chance. What else happened this week? Overwatch teased a new hero, Battlefield 1 teased a new...something, Prey showed off its toilet paper physics, Humble decided to sell a billion hours of Civilization for $15, and someone installed Doom on a Porsche 911. If you've heard 25 years of Civilization praise and thought "I should play those games some day," I have one hell of a deal for you: Most of the Civilization games, packed into a bundle. A Humble Bundle, that is.
Here Are eBay's Best Black Friday And Cyber Monday Gaming Deals
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is part of an Xbox One S Cyber Monday deal. Over the years, eBay has gone from just a peer-to-peer marketplace, to becoming an internet juggernaut in its own right, replete with its own list of Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals. And while eBay may not be the premiere destination for video games, this year the company does have some excellent deals on 4K TVs and video game consoles. The below lists include all the big tech and video game deals, but I've bolded the ones that should be of particular interest to gamers. So, out of these the LG widescreen gaming monitor and the two Samsung KS8000 TVs are the best deals for gamers.
'Deus Ex: Mankind Divided,' 'Final Fantasy XV' And More Confirmed For PlayStation 4 Pro
Sony has announced the titles that will be coming to its recently announced PlayStation 4 Pro when the new console arrives on the market on Nov. 10. The Japanese multinational conglomerate has also said that the games would come with graphics improvements for the new PlayStation model. Sony revealed two lists of games: one is for the titles that would be enhanced in terms of graphics for the PS4 Pro, while the other is for the video games that would be optimized for the console when they are officially released, as per Game Transfers. For the games that will receive graphics improvements, the list includes: "Deus Ex: Mankind Divided," "Uncharted 4: The Thief Desenlace," "inFamous: Second Son," "inFamous First Light," "Paragon," "Call of Duty: Black Ops III" and "Middle-earth: Shadow of Morder." On the other hand, the list for the upcoming titles for PS4 Pro include: "Final Fantasy XV," "For Honor," "Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands," "Watch Dogs 2," "Spider-Man," "Steep," "Dishonored 2, "Rise of the Tomb Raider" and "Killing Floor 2." The second list also mentions "Days Gone," "Farpoint," "Horizon: Zero Dawn," "Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare," "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered," "FIFA 17," "Battlefield 1" and "Mass Effect Andromeda."
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided review: 'An excellent addition to the series'
In 2011, Square Enix appeared to achieve the impossible, creating a new game in the Deus Ex canon that received both critical and public acclaim for a much lauded and iconic series. Human Revolution stayed true to the themes and gameplay mechanics of the original game and updated them for modern players without dumbing down. Mankind Divided is a direct sequel and certainly doesn't reinvent the wheel. If you loved Human Revolution, you'll love this, no question. Thematically the game excels, creating a near-future universe where advanced technology and poverty co-exist, against the backdrop of the threat of terrorism from a group representing'augs', humans with robotic limbs and implants. The display of segregation, paranoia and media-led hysteria is well framed, seemingly using current real world invents as inspiration.
Review: 'Deus Ex: Mankind Divided' Offers An Incredible Array of Ways to Play
It turns out Deus Ex: Mankind Divided's disruptive maneuver isn't just to render me superhumanly flexible, but to slow me to a crawl. To make me want to linger over inches of screen space, trawling for painkillers, grenades, EMP bullets, and upgrades to my tweaked out wetware. Eidos Montreal's cyberpunk roleplaying game for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, out August 23, has its obligatory action box. And you can check it. I'm hunting for passwords and PINs stored on strangely hip-again PDAs or carelessly dropped in emails. I need these to unlock doors and computers, to disable security cameras, gun turrets and homicidal security robots.
'Mass Effect Andromeda' novels tie into the full video game saga
Titan is also publishing a trilogy of novels based on the Dishonored series between July 2016 and June 2017. All three books are written by sci-fi author Adam Christopher and the first installment is called The Corroded Man. Dishonored 2, the sequel to 2012's Dishonored, will hit PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC on November 11th. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is also getting a tie-in novel from Titan and developer Eidos Montreal, dubbed Deus Ex: Black Light. The game is set to land on August 23rd and Black Light will hit bookshelves that same month.