Make Your Own Ending: Reflections on the role of Deus Ex in the gaming world

I consider myself to be an avid PC gamer. Not in the sense of having played some PC games, but in the sense of being a hobbyist - following gaming news, checking in on games in development, reading gaming magazines regularly, and so on. Accordingly, I spend a lot of time thinking about how PC gaming (and video gaming as a whole) has developed over the past 20 years, and where it is heading now.