One of the greatest RPGs (well, FPS/RPGs) of all time is coming back out of hibernation. And, appropriately for a game about conspiracies, developer Eidos is being very secretive about it. All that’s confirmed is that it’s being made by a team at the Eidos Montreal studio, using an enhanced version of the Tomb Raider: Anniversary engine.



The team comprises veterans of the Splinter Cell, Homeworld and Myst series, but not the team behind the original game or its notoriously inferior sequel Deus Ex: Invisible War. That said, Deus Ex’s lead designer, Harvey Smith, recently departed Midway in dramatic fashion (he told an audience at the Montreal Game Summit that his latest project, BlackSite, “deserved” the shocking reviews it received, and left the company “by mutual agreement” the following day) so we wouldn’t be surprised if he joined up any day now