Actor Elias Toufexis has been busy in recent years, playing space spy Kenzo in "The Expanse," delightful rubber-faced alien Lark in "Star Trek: Discovery," and the Penguin in "Gotham Nights." But according to the actor, he has heard nothing about reprising a role that many gamers know: that of Adam Jensen, the protagonist of the "Deus Ex" prequel series.

"Yeah, I'm glad I'm busy, but I wish I was busier with the new 'Deus Ex,'" Toufexis wrote on Twitter. I did not sign an NDA for 'Deus Ex'. Really."

As PC Gamer newsreader Andy Chalk put it, "This hurts." Like Jay Anthony Franke as JC Denton in the original game, Tufexis did a great job of coaxing warmth and humor out of a trenchcoat-wearing, sunglasses-wearing thug who makes a living beating men down and hiding them in vents at night.

The black-and-gold neo-renaissance of the "Deus Ex" prequel makes for an unnatural continuity with the original game, but it's great science fiction on its own, and Toufexis as Jensen is oddly relatable and horrifyingly empathetic to his ex-girlfriend who experimented on human bodies You can. [In November, a source told Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier that development of the new "Deus Ex" was "in the very early stages. Nine months later, we may be able to remove that one "very" from the development progress of the upcoming Deus Ex. If Toufexis is the protagonist of the new Deus Ex, he will have a central role and a lot of dialogue, but the actual voice dialogue will be recorded much later in the game's development, after the script has been finalized. [Given the modern development cycle, it's quite possible that there could be a 10+ year gap between the launch of the previous game, "Mankind Divided" in 2016, and the next one, as "Mankind Divided" really felt like the middle of a trilogy that was never allowed to be completed.

Eid.

Eidos Montreal's most recent release was Guardians of the Galaxy, a game that surprised us with its wit and warmth at the peak of Marvel's saturation (we were getting tired of this kind of thing, anyway). The studio changed from Square Enix to Embracer Group last August, but does not seem to have been affected by the recent wave of mega-publisher layoffs and studio closures.