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If this trailer is any indication, we should all be augmented. While it doesn't actually show any in-game footage of Human Revolution, this video does give us a glimpse into Sarif Industries and their vision of the future. There is, however, a conspicuous lack of robotic legs. We suppose paraplegics are simply too uncouth for Sarif. Kidding aside, this trailer has plenty of style and is one of the few live action game trailers we've seen, so it's worth watching at least once.

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Much like the previous Deus Ex: Human Revolution trailer, this one shows off multiple paths to the same ending. To be specific, it shows the player approaching a facility in three different ways: aggressive, stealth, and a mix of the two. There's no developer commentary, but the amount of variation is stronger thanks to the trailer showing off the entire complex instead of one specific section. In each case, the player ends up face to face with an enemy with a hostage, and it's left ambiguous what happens. Once again, the developers seem to know exactly what Deus Ex fans want!

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One of the strengths of Deus Ex is its open-ended nature. When given an objective, you can take it in virtually any fashion you please. This trailer for Human Revolution shows off three ways to get around: stealth, combat, and exploration. The same section is played three times, with the player doing something different each time. It's a pretty cool trailer and gives us hope that the developers know what fans want from a Deus Ex game: slick cyberpunk aesthetics and a staggering amount of choice.

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Doug Church, one of the most respected game designers in the last couple of decades, is now officially a Valve employee. Rumors of Church's hiring hit the earlier interwebs today but Game Informer has confirmed with Valve' spokesperson Doug Lombard, "On the record: It's true."

Church made his reputation at the now defunct Looking Glass Studios where he help to design some classic PC games including Ultima Underworld, the first System Shock and Thief. He later worked at Ion Storm on the Deus Ex series. Before being hired by Valve Church was working at Electronic Arts. He was the lead designer on a game that was being produced by movie director Steven Spielberg that was later canceled. There's no word on what Church will be working on for Valve.

Today's PC game sales start a new work week and include a chance to get some games on sale as part of GamersGate second week of celebrating its fifth birthday this month.

Among the many, many PC games on sale for the next week on the site are Supreme Commander for just $7.50, MX Vs ATV Reflex for just $7.98, Men of War for $5.98, King's Bounty: The Legend for just $4, the original Jagged Alliance for a mere $1.25, Guardian of Graxia for $5 (plus its expansion packs for 50 percent off each), all the Flatout games for 75 percent off and both Deus Ex games for $4 each.

Fans of the Deus Ex sci-fi action-RPG series have been waiting patiently for the third installment Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Today retail web sites like GameStop changed their release dates for the game to show a August 23 ship date for the title. Publisher Square Enix previously announced a few months ago that the game would not make its planned first quarter 2011 release date.

While Square Enix has yet to officially announce a new specific release date this would seem to correlate with other release dates announced for Australia (August 25) and the UK (August 26). We have emailed Square Enix for an official comment.

Update: Eidos Montreal's Twitter page has now confirmed the US and UK released dates.

[Via Joystiq]

It seems that Deus Ex: Human Revolution is a little deeper than we thought at first glance. While there's still plenty of shoting and elbow blades in this trailer, it delves more into the protagonists history than all his fancy new gadgets. During an assault on the labs at the biotech firm Adam Jensen was working for, he was severely injured and had to get cybernetics. Interestingly enough, this isn't the focus of the trailer either, but rather Adam's connection to a love interest. One who, we might add, is conspicuously absent after the shift in time frame. There's very little gameplay, but the lore this trailer gives us is certainly excellent.

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PC gamers love role playing games in many different forms. Some prefer the huge sprawling single player RPGs while others like the fast pace of action-RPG titles. Still others like to gather with lots of friends and players in massively multiplayer RPGs. As Big Download continues our look into 2011's most anticipated PC games we give our picks for the top 10 RPG and related MMO games that we want most to play in the the next 12 months.

There are tons of sequels to previously released RPGs on this list. One developer, BioWare, has a whopping three games on this list. That includes perhaps the most anticipated MMO game launch in the post World of Warcraft world. Check out our top 10 list in order of their planned release date, plus two games that may or may not actually make it out in 2011, after the jump. You can also go back and check out our most anticipated 2011 games in the FPS and action categories.

Note to self: If we ever make PC game, make sure to have the same marketing plan as Minecraft does. It seems to work wonders for Notch and his development team:

• Steam has a small but important patch update today for Garry's Mod.
• Want to see how the lead character in Dead Space 2 would operate in our modern world? Here you go. Oh and it's the first of a series.
• Deus Ex: Human Revolution's art director tells us if there will be any vehicles in the game in this new video.
• The Child's Play charity has now officially generated over $1.4 million in donations with still a lot of time and campaigns to go.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution won't be coming out in the first quarter of 2011 after all. The highly anticipated next game in the cyberpunk action-RPG series' released has been pushed back into sometime into publisher's Square Enix's next fiscal year which begins on April 1, 2011 and ends on March 31, 2012.

In a financial note today, Square Enix cited "weak sales performance of console game titles that have been newly released during the current fiscal year" as part of the reason behind the delay. It added that it will "send additional time to further polish" the game which is being developed at Eidos Montreal.

Before today the publisher was ramping up its efforts for marketing the game including announcing an "augmented edition" of the title and launching a "viral web site" that showed some of the fictional back story behind the game.