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Sarif Industries / Deus Ex: Human Revolution

**Posted:** Fri Dec 03, 2010 3:11 pm

cyng · Unfettered Joined: 10 Nov 2007 Posts: 366

hey, do you mind giving a quick run down on how sarif industries is connected to Deus ex? (for us uninitiated?)

**Posted:** Fri Dec 03, 2010 3:49 pm

Avatrix

Sarif Industries is a biotech company, developing and manufacturing human augmentation devices. Those devices were a major tool and story element of the original Deus Ex, allowing the player to upgrade abilities/skills over the game. The story also looked at the rift between non-adopters, early adopters of the technology for whom augmentations were visibly obvious (entirely replaced limbs, replaced eyes), and those using the newest tech, which was much less visible.

Wiki entry: http://deusex.wikia.com/wiki/Sarif_Industries

**Posted:** Fri Dec 03, 2010 3:59 pm

cyng · Unfettered Joined: 10 Nov 2007 Posts: 366

thanks for the tip and the info!

not quite sure it's an arg....i'm not seeing much that is ARGish so far...other than being able to browse the fictional site...however it does mention career opportunities...so who knows what the next few weeks will bring (and the unlocked portions). So i will keep an eye out for now.

seems the site is just going viral now, but was around for a few weeks at least--i really would like to know who it was seeded, but I'm not finding the source; one thing in it being an ARG's favour...is it is not being directly link from the games main site

there is a download option for the unlocked files which seems strange to me; I don't know how to desteg, so I won't...but other than that, I really don't know why else we would download them for

**Posted:** Fri Dec 03, 2010 5:02 pm

crazy-jake

well thematically, this is right up my ally! i'll watch for now, and see what develops... The mini game was fun and simple...

I thought it was interesting that they had news articles on there from 2007-2010, and their stock information especially... Much a due about prosthetic augmentation, the banning of augmented humans in international games, US Govt funding, and WHO establishing a viral research center 'Omega Ranch'

EDIT: Being the nosy little bugger i am, i did a reverse ip search on the website. Looks to be a server owned by Square enix, also hosting websites for Final Fantasy, mind jack, and other games from that company. This also leads me to believe that the website is being done by an internal team and not likely to be an arg. infact, look at the deus ex website
http://www.deusex.com/
it's in pre order and the trailer shows off some of the tech mentioned on the webstite. This is probably just viral marketing or something of the sort. Would have made for a great arg.

**Posted:** Tue Dec 07, 2010 3:38 am

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That's disappointing, but not surprising. Still, if you see anything let us know, and I'll do the same.

**Posted:** Tue Dec 07, 2010 10:17 am

fianl_point · Guest

I wonder what the unlock sections hold, especially since they talk about "living the history", as we get closer to the projected release date (early 2011).

**Posted:** Wed Dec 08, 2010 8:19 am

coffeegirl18

It's really slick and two things are locked. I'm thinking it'll be back...

Also was able to post the link on my facebook.

**Posted:** Thu Dec 09, 2010 3:49 pm

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MrBeefy · Veteran Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 126 Location: Atlanta

Anxiously hoping for this one to bloom. Deus Ex the original was one of the top best written fictional experiences I've taken part in. Hopefully they've learned from DX2 mistakes and are ready to bring their game (pun intended) back.

**Posted:** Thu Dec 09, 2010 7:30 pm

CreativeEmbassy

I haven't played an alternate reality game since, what, 2007? I miss it. So when I saw this was warming up, I'm terribly excited about it. Deus Ex helped form a big part of my childhood. This is bringing me back in a big way.

There's a video on the homepage now.

**Posted:** Wed Apr 13, 2011 4:01 pm

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cyng · Unfettered Joined: 10 Nov 2007 Posts: 366

according to this article: http://innovation.bcl.co.uk/gaming/5-rules-of-alternate-reality-games/

this is officially an arg

here's hoping they do not define arg by one viral video

ETA: ahaha...they did add new content to the website

you can take pictures of yourself with the augumentations

here's mine Very Happy

**Posted:** Fri Apr 15, 2011 11:22 am

Chrisss · Boot Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 39

Uhhhhh very cool. I am sooo awaiting DeusEx and now there is an ARG coming up! Go Go

**Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2011 1:20 pm

Minz · Decorated Joined: 12 Apr 2009 Posts: 183

Yay! I loved playing Deus Ex and Deus Ex Invisible War!

There seems to be a cryptic message that sometimes pops up and tries to bypass the firewall.

After clicking around on the site for a while it finally said access granted and took me to

**Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2011 4:38 pm

cyng · Unfettered Joined: 10 Nov 2007 Posts: 366

bahahaha.....the bastards! *shakes fist

on the OTHER hand...they went through all the trouble to encode it...sooooooooo....usually lorem ipsum is a placeholder for things to COME, perhaps we should keep an eye on it and see what possibly takes its place?

*fingers crossed

good eye btw minz

**Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2011 5:48 pm

Shizzire

My home computer was dog-a$$ slow, so I tried the site from work. Got this response from our "security":

"This site has recently been compromised and malicious content has been identified on it. It is being monitored regularly by SophosLabs and will be reclassified when it is safe again."

Not to panic, but you might want to check your AV...

**Posted:** Tue Apr 19, 2011 9:54 am