Microsoft is looking to get into the digital distribution game hard with their Games for Windows service. If you’ve been paying attention, you’ll know that Microsoft recently held a deal on Age of Empires 3, offering it for just 99 cents. Well, it looks like they are continuing the tradition by offering Deus Ex: Game of the Year for just 99 cents.

For those not keeping track, Dues Ex: GotY normally retails for around $9.99 making this deal quite enticing.

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Noted game designer Warren Spector, who created Deus Ex and Deus Ex: Invisible War, revealed in an interview with Variety that he tried to buy the rights to the game from the publisher, but was unsuccessful. Specter said,

“There were and still are ‘Deus Ex’ stories I would like to tell. That story is not done for me. For the sci-fi game, I sort of filed the serial numbers off. ‘Deus Ex’ was very much a game of the millennium.”

Yep, a lot of people would argue that Deus Ex was the game of the millennium, especially if you’re into cyberpunk. Spector is also the creator of the Wing Commander and the Thief series and is currently working on Epic Mickey for Disney.

Square Enix’s takeover of Eidos Interactive has been an ongoing effort since last year when the deal was originally penned.

Well, Gamasutra is reporting that a court has finally made the take over official giving Square Enix control of valuable Eidos game franchises like Tomb Raider and Deus Ex.

So now that Square Enix’s $117 million buyout has been made official, what’s next? Are we going to see Laura Croft make a cameo in an upcoming Final Fantasy game? Let’s hope not!

Reporting on Harvey Smith’s keynote at the AGDC Game Career Summit, Gamasutra notes that the former Origin, ION Storm and Midway designer revealed an unnamed immersive first-person RPG that he has been working on at Arkane Austin.

Smith noted that his “focus is very much around games like Deus Ex,” pointing out that his studio “Arkane as a company is very focused on immersive first-person experiences.”

While no details were given, the site later spoke to him, finding out that the project is in the vein of Deus Ex and Thief: Deadly Shadows.