The secret stand-out of Sony's State of Play was the bizarre resurrection of Deus Ex's PS2 version

Alright, alright. I know this website is called PC Gamer. I am aware, dimly, that the PlayStation 5 is not a PC. A thing that is even less a PC? The PS2. And yet here I am, writing about a PS2 game arriving on PS5.

In my defence, that game is literally Deus Ex, the most PC game to ever PC game, and I can't help but find its arrival on Sony's iconically yonic console via PS+ (its not-quite-Game-Pass service) alternately mystifying and thrilling. In the year 2025, Sony has resurrected one of the most curious artefacts of the early 2000s...