​Etienne Giroux, game designer at Square Enix Montreal for Deus Ex: Go
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Deus Ex: Go is the latest big budget franchise to get a mobile game

The Deus Ex universe is expanding into mobile, as Square Enix is taking the wraps off of Deus Ex: Go.

The announcement from the big Japanese game publisher and its Montreal studio, Square Enix Montreal, shows that the audience of a billion mobile gamers continues to be an important target for Square Enix’s ongoing series of Go mobile games, such as Lara Croft: Go and Hitman: Go. Those prior games appealed to hardcore gamers who like the games on the consoles and enjoyed engaging with the same franchises on mobile devices. Those titles had high-end, realistic 3D-animated landscapes with fancy homes and lush jungles.

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Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.