Almost a month ago, the in-game trailer from GamesCom made it into the net. I know, I’m late but I nearly destroyed my blog and I was on vaca­tion so I was quite busy with other things than con­tent. Any­ways, I’m back and Deus Ex 3: Human Rev­o­lu­tion is one of my most antic­i­pated games next year. For more infor­ma­tion on the game take a look at a pre­vi­ous post. The ‘new’ trailer looks very promis­ing and I def­i­nitely like the look of it:

In related news, there’s also a book planned, set in the Deus Ex uni­verse. Pub­lisher Del Ray announced in July that Deus Ex: The Icarus Effect, writ­ten by James Swal­low, would be released in 2011. The novel is about Anna Kelso, a Secret Ser­vice agent, and Ben Saxon, a special-ops sol­dier, who draw too close to the truth in a world filled with con­spir­a­cies. Of course, the pow­ers that be must silence them so that their intri­cate plans come to fruition. Infor­ma­tion is scarce at the moment but accord­ing to the offi­cial press release some char­ac­ters and story ele­ments will over­lap with the game. Accord­ing to Jim him­self, the novel serves as a “side-story/prequel”  to the game’s plotline.

I’ve never read any­thing by James Swal­low – sounds more like a porn name than a seri­ous writer, eh? (sorry Jim, I couldn’t resist) – so I’m try­ing to stay open-minded about the novel. His work record doesn’t look bad either and he’s already won the Inter­na­tional Asso­ci­a­tion of Media Tie-in Writ­ers Scribe Award for Best Orig­i­nal Spec­u­la­tive Fic­tion. Addi­tion­ally, he has been work­ing as a core writer on the video game itself, so that should def­i­nitely make an inter­est­ing read. I’m not usu­ally into video game tie-ins but what the hell. I’ve recently aquired Matthew Stover’s God of War, so DX:TIE won’t be a first, right? Right!