Square Enix confirms Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and releases first trailer

Square Enix confirmed its new video game Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, the latest in a series about the conflict between humans and people with augmented cybernetics. The Japanese publisher of the Final Fantasy series released the trailer and discussed it on Twitch, a first for a major game.

Square Enix didn’t say when the game is arriving, but players can preorder it now. It shows that Square Enix is still betting big on high-end video games at a time when mobile and online drive the industry’s growth.

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Dean Takahashi

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.