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That Kickstarter Shadowrun game has some unexpected competition on the horizon.

CD Projekt Red has enjoyed a tremendous amount of success with its popular Witcher RPG series and fans have been clamoring to find out what the Polish studio’s next venture would be. Although most thought it likely that the team was working on a third entry in their tent-pole franchise, CD Projekt Red has revealed via its live Ustream summer conference its new game; an adaptation of the Cyberpunk pen-and-paper RPG.

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Worship the god out of the machine

Twelve years ago, Ion Storm created the original Deus Ex, combining role-playing elements into a first-person shooter, something that, while done before, had never had such polish. The game won multiple awards and still regarded as one of the greatest PC games of all time. Stepping into the role of a UN agent in a cyberpunk, dystopian future, you unraveled a massive conspiracy threatening the entire world. In 2003, a sequel, Deus Ex: Invisible War was released and while generally well-received, it failed to deliver the quality and poise of its namesake and has become a sore spot for fans. Today, 11 years later, Square Enix has tried to revitalize the franchise and bring in a new generation of gamers while catering to the old guard with Deus Ex: Human Revolution - and boy did they succeed. Deus Ex: Human Revolution has managed to deliver one of the most enjoyable games I have played in years.

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