Eidos teases Deus Ex: Human Revolution DLC in the most complicated way ever

1 September 2011

Get your brains on, game fans! Recently, a special message was dropped onto the Deus Ex: Human Revolution menu screen news ticker, directing players to the game’s official website for an update. Pretty routine stuff, but the message was also accompanied by a string of alphanumerics:

okM8-+Ds4Dui?lMh$Mzvm14SBqe7;G.l6=u74b?mkh-45Ki60d+98XBpCku7

Sometime later, this was followed up by a new string, which turned out to be a cipher:

5 — / ! f / f q / x c / q y / d 3 / ? x / t $ / j #

I don’t get it either, but somebody, somewhere out there did, and was directed to the URL, www.13311tower.com, where GPS coordinates turned up the location of Ayers Rock in Australia.

Now, Ayers Rock is also known as “Uluru”. This is where I’m getting a bit fuzzy, but there’s mention of Morse code somewhere that doesn’t actually appear to be anywhere anymore, that decoded to “11m13clinic”.

Clicking on the Illuminati eye on the image at www.13311tower.com, and using “uluru” and “11m13clinic” as the login name and password then redirects to this image:

Notice the prominent countdown to Sunday. What’s happening on Sunday!?

Well, according to VG247, it’s (rather obviously) a DLC announcement. The site’s anonymous informant claims it’s set around two days on board a prison ship of some kind, but it’s not clear how or if this is connected in any way with the characters and story of Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

I guess we’ll just wait till Sunday then.

What do you make of this Deus Ex mystery? Let us know in the MyGaming forums.

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