The revolution may not be televised, but the human revolution will be digitized, as
Eidos-Montreal announces plans to digitally distribute
Deus Ex: Human Revolution through
Steam, adding that the action/RPG prequel will support Steamworks features like auto-updating, Steam Achievements and the Steam Cloud upon its release this August. They also announce that in addition to the standard game, Steam will offer an "augmented edition," which will include a digital art book, a "making of" special, trailers, an animated storyboard of the CGI trailer, a motion graphic novel, the soundtrack, and a free download of the
Deus Ex Game of the Year Edition. They say prepurchases are now being accepted, though a glance at the
Deus Ex: Human Revolution on Steam Page shows this is premature, but when prepurchases are enabled, they will be at a discount for a limited time: The standard game will be $44.99 USD, and the Augmented Edition will be $53.99 USD. Eidos-Montreal also offers a few documents on PC-specific features:
This article describes support for AMD Eyefinity, AMD HD3D technology, and DirectX 11,
this tech Q&A discusses those elements in more depth, and
this internal Q&A explores the challenges of making the Windows version of Human Revolution live up to the PC roots of the Deus Ex series, in spite of being a multiplatform game. Finally,
these screenshots offer a couple of shots from the PC edition and one of the game in Eyefinity mode spread across three monitors.