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Former Dead Space Developer Felt Pressure from Modern Warfare 3 Development

One of the leading developers working on the upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has stated that despite his capable team and well put together development process he still experienced a lot of pressure when working on the game because of its huge importance to the gaming world.Glen Schofield, who is the co-found...

3 October 2011
05:12 GMT

Ninja Gaiden 3 Targets Immersion

The fact that Japanese game developers are very different from their Western counterparts has been clear for quite some time but one of the developers working on Ninja Gaiden says that the team in Japan creating the game is keen to adopt the best ideas coming from the West.Peter Graza, who is a localisation producer ...

27 September 2011
10:40 GMT

EA Always Working on New IPs, Wants One or Two New Games Each Year

Electronic Arts has talked about its push for brand new intellectual properties and how it's currently striving not just to have multiple iterations of proven franchises, but also to deploy all-new games in order to keep things fresh and exciting for gamers. EA became infamous for its exploitation of franchis...

26 August 2011
03:15 GMT

Dead Space for BlackBerry PlayBook Now Available for Download

Even though iOS and Android are the two platforms that are setting the world on fire when it comes to mobile gaming, RIM's PlayBook has its advantages as well. One of the most popular EA franchise, Dead Space has just landed on Research in Motion's (RIM) BlackBerry PlayBook. After becoming successful ...

22 August 2011
05:27 GMT

Dead Space 2 Gets Free Multiplayer Map Pack Next Week

Dead Space 2, Electronic Arts' newest survival horror shooter, is set to receive new multiplayer maps, in the form of the Outbreak pack, which will be completely free. EA pleased quite a lot of horror fans at the beginning of the year when it released Dead Space 2, managing to continue the story in the original...

25 May 2011
14:21 GMT

Dead Space Movie Still Looking for a Good Story

Shortly after the first Dead Space video game was launched, Electronic Arts revealed that it was trying to also get a movie project based on the franchise off the ground, as part of a strategy to cross promote the new intellectual property as much as possible. Since then gamers got a new title, Dead Space 2, that si...

23 March 2011
16:11 GMT

Dead Space 2 Severed DLC Gets Trailer and Release Date

The first piece of downloadable content for Dead Space 2, Severed, has just received an official trailer and a concrete release date. Dead Space 2, although extremely well received, was a bit short in terms of the single-player content, even if the multiplayer did make up for it in some way. Now, Visceral Games...

24 February 2011
03:40 GMT

A Gamer's Week: February 20

We've returned to the Incoming 2011 series this week, previewing some of the most important video game launches that will be happening this year, but we also have a Quick Look for the free-to-play and browser-based Battlestar Galactica Online.We also reviewed Stacking, the latest game from Tim Schafer.Our Weeken...

20 February 2011
08:01 GMT

Electronic Arts Leader Says Company Will Regain Industry Leadership

John Riccitiello, who is the chief executive officer of video game publisher Electronic Arts, has expressed confidence that his company is on the right track to becoming yet again a leader in its industry, after having a fairly bad couple of years. The executive spoke at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet C...

18 February 2011
02:51 GMT

Dead Space 2 Diary - How EA's New Franchise Bet Paid Off

Dead Space 2 was released at the end of last month, and everyone, from media representatives to fans, are extremely pleased with Visceral Games' new release, praising its horror feeling, character development and the additions it brings over the original. We've had quite a long series of gamer diaries ab...

11 February 2011
08:35 GMT

Dead Space 2 Diary - The Not So Scary Multiplayer

Dead Space 2 innovates and brings a lot of new features as opposed to its predecessor, with the biggest one being the brand new multiplayer mode. Visceral Games' Dead Space 2 packs one great single-player campaign, with main hero Isaac Clarke going through a great adventure that charts his coping with the los...

9 February 2011
09:00 GMT

Dead Space 2 Diary - The Memorable Locations of the Game

Dead Space 2 is available for three weeks now, and plenty of people are extremely pleased with the thrilling horror experience delivered, even if a few inconsistencies are present here and there. In between fighting the evil monsters through the confined corridors of the Sprawl space station, main protagonist Isaa...

7 February 2011
09:15 GMT

Dead Space 2 Diary - The Many Shades of Horror

Dead Space 2 has just been released and already fans of the survival horror genre have flocked to purchase the new iteration in Visceral Games' franchise. We've already talked about how the studio gave a voice to protagonist Isaac Clarke and how many of its environments are severely limiting the choice o...

3 February 2011
08:40 GMT

Dead Space 2 Multiplayer Is Unique, Studio Says

Visceral Games, the developer of the recent Dead Space 2 survival horror title, talked about the game and its special multiplayer mode, saying that through its characters, it is unique in the current gaming landscape.Dead Space 2 was released last week and has been gaining positive reviews left and right, even a 9.5 ...

2 February 2011
15:51 GMT

Dead Space 2 Diary - Giving Voice to Isaac Clarke

Dead Space 2 has been launched for almost a week now, and by far one of the biggest changes the game brings as opposed to the first one is the fact that its hero, space engineer Isaac Clarke, now has a voice and a face. The original Dead Space broke out onto the scene with its intense survival horror gameplay and ...

1 February 2011
06:00 GMT

Dead Space 2

Survival horror games are becoming increasingly scarce these days, with franchises like Resident Evil dropping the horror pretense altogether while others like Silent Hill basking in mediocrity. One of the genre's newest additions, Visceral Games' Dead Space, however, tries to keep it alive, and, with th...

31 January 2011
05:45 GMT

Dead Space 2 Gets Severed DLC

Barely has Dead Space 2 been launched around the world, and Electronic Arts, its publisher, is already detailing the first piece of downloadable content that will be released for the game. Dead Space 2 continues the story of the original, with leading man Isaac Clarke trying to recover from the trauma he suffered ...

27 January 2011
18:01 GMT

Incoming 2011: Dead Space 2

What we knowThe survival horror genre is set to receive a brand new installment of one of its newest franchises, Dead Space 2, which will try to terrify players next week.The game continues the story of the original's protagonist, Isaac Clarke, who managed to survive the traumatic events on board the Ishimura an...

18 January 2011
06:55 GMT

Any Dead Space Save Game Gives Original Plasma Cutter to Dead Space 2

Visceral Games, the developer of the relatively new Dead Space franchise, has just revealed that players who have any type of save game file from the first Dead Space will get the original Plasma Cutter weapon in Dead Space 2.Visceral Games is getting ready to ship Dead Space 2, the sequel to its survival horror fran...

3 January 2011
17:21 GMT

Dead Space 2 Achievements Leaked

Dead Space 2 is eagerly anticipated by quite a lot of survival horror fans, so many of them will be pleased to hear that the whole list of the game's achievements has been leaked onto the web, showcasing 50 brutal challenges that need to be completed. As you can imagine, many of the achievements listed below ...

15 December 2010
17:21 GMT

Dead Space 2 Demo Out on December 21

EA has just announced that Dead Space fans will be able to start dismembering aliens right before the winter holidays, as the demo for the upcoming Dead Space 2 will arrive on December 21. Dead Space 2, in case you don't know, is the follow-up to the original game released back in 2008, and continues the stor...

9 December 2010
03:00 GMT

Mirror's Edge and Dead Space Fell Short of EA's Expectations

EA Games label boss Frank Gibeau recently talked about two of the newest Intellectual Properties launched by the company in recent years, Mirror's Edge and Dead Space, and revealed that even though they fell short of the company's expectations, work will continue on both of them, in order to reach their ful...

2 December 2010
17:11 GMT

New Games Are Better Than Movie-Based Ones, EA Says

EA, one of the biggest games publishers in the world, has just criticized movie-based games, and said that it's better for companies to make their own intellectual properties, than release titles based on other ones, like James Bond or Jason Bourne.EA is definitely in a new position this time, as a few years ago...

1 December 2010
03:00 GMT

Visceral Games Working on Four New Games Besides Dead Space 2

EA is extremely confident in the Visceral Games team, as it has just unveiled that the California-based studio is working four new games, besides the upcoming Dead Space 2, which will hit at the beginning of next year.A few days ago, Visceral executive Zach Mumbach admitted that the studio isn't working on a seq...

18 October 2010
15:51 GMT

Visceral Games Isn't Working on Dante's Inferno Sequel, Yet

EA's Visceral Games studio is currently hard at work on completing Dead Space 2, but it has also released another game this year, in the shape of hack and slash title Dante's Inferno.When asked about the possibility of a sequel to the pretty popular title, Dead Space 2 associated producer Zach Mumbach revea...

13 October 2010
18:01 GMT

Dead Space Developer Wants More Survival Horror Games

Visceral Games, the developer of the critically acclaimed Dead Space third person survival horror title and of its upcoming sequel, Dead Space 2, has revealed that it wants to see more such titles, in order to keep the genre going.According to Dead Space 2's producer, Steven Papoutsis, more games like Dead Space...

5 October 2010
02:50 GMT

Dead Space 3 Will Appear Only If Fans Want It, Studio Says

EA's Visceral Games studio is getting ready to complete Dead Space 2, the sequel to one of the most interesting third-person horror survival games of 2008, but is also looking towards the future, and revealed that it really wants to make more Dead Space titles, but only if fans will support the upcoming game.Dea...

30 September 2010
17:11 GMT

Dead Space's Isaac Clarke Is a Playable Character in Skate 3

Isaac Clarke, the main character from Visceral Games' Dead Space series, shows up in another one of Electronic Arts' published games. His first appearance outside the Dead Space universe was in Visceral's latest game, Dante's Inferno, as a playable character. This time around, the placement is a b...

20 May 2010
14:21 GMT

Dead Space Developers Will Head Modern Warfare 3 Development

Activision Blizzard announced, in a very surprising move, that developer Sledgehammer Games was selected to create the 2011 installment of the Call of Duty franchise, which will probably also bear the Modern Warfare 3 moniker. The publisher also cleared the air a bit, confirming that both Vince Zampella, the Chief Ex...

3 March 2010
04:35 GMT

EA's Management Is Held Accountable for Its Actions

We know that the end of 2009 was a bad time to be involved with the production part of the gaming industry, and we also know that Electronic Arts suffered a lot during the past month of the year. The company had to fire over 1,500 employees and even shut down Pandemic Studios altogether. And while we'd hesitate ...

15 January 2010
05:31 GMT

The ESRB Looks at Dante's Inferno

Right from the beginning, Dante's Inferno announced itself as a game that wouldn't shy away from graphics or explicit content. After all, the studio behind the title is Visceral Games, and its name reflects very well its mentality, as we've already seen in Dead Space. Across several developers' di...

22 December 2009
05:44 GMT

Dante's Inferno Features Dead Space Content

As the release date is closing in fast, Electronic Arts and Visceral Games are beginning to pour more and more attention into Dante's Inferno. Just Friday, we saw that the game got its Divine Edition, with the PlayStation 3 getting a lot more out of the deal than its fellow Xbox 360. Now, the title has received ...

14 December 2009
03:53 GMT

Dead Space Developers Move to Activision

In a major move, Activision has announced that Glen Schofield and Michael Condry, best known for leading the development team that delivered last year's Dead Space, are now part of the newly formed Sledgehammer Games team, based in Foster, California. The two were previously part of the Visceral Games team, whic...

18 November 2009
14:21 GMT

Jack the Ripper Could Become a Misunderstood Superhero

Yesterday, news of a Jack the Ripper game began to surface. According to Superannuation, a trademark filing was spotted, which covers the name of “the Ripper” in relation to entertainment services, movie production and games. Older rumors started by the Los Angeles Times back in July regarding a possible ...

8 October 2009
03:58 GMT

Jack the Ripper Could Be the Next Title for Visceral Games

Visceral Games may be adding the last-minute touches to Dante's Inferno but it is already thinking of the future. Besides the Dead Space 2 project that was revealed last week through a job listing made by the developer, the company has another trick up its sleeve. This week signs of a new game have emerged, as t...

7 October 2009
08:54 GMT

Dead Space 2 Is Already in the Making

Right after the Dead Space spin-off for the Wii, Dead Space Extraction, got released, Visceral Games is getting right back to work. Electronic Arts' recently rebranded Redwood Shores studio wastes no time basking in the glory of a new release and reveals that Dead Space 2 has entered the "later stages of preprod...

1 October 2009
02:49 GMT

2008 Was Difficult for EA, 2009 Will Be Better

Electronic Arts has just posted the financial results for the first quarter of the current fiscal year but the publisher is already looking to the lead up to Christmas 2009, the sales period that pretty much can make or break the fortunes of a videogaming company.John Riccitiello, the Chief Executive Officer of Elect...

6 August 2009
16:41 GMT

Dead Space Live Action Movie Gets Director

Electronic Arts is one of the biggest companies in gaming today, but it seems that it also wants to extend into other branches of the entertainment industry. As such, it has been involved with the Hollywood movie-making scene for quite some time, offering plenty of its franchises to willing directors and film writers...

3 August 2009
11:01 GMT

Dead Space Devs Moving from EA to Activision

The gaming industry is a tough one, with people constantly moving from different studios to other companies, and large corporations want to do everything they can in order to get their hands on the brightest and most experienced talent. One recent example of corporate shift has been made by former Visceral Games bos...

23 July 2009
11:01 GMT

3 Million People Played Dead Space Despite Sales of 1,5 Million Units

One of last year's most interesting titles was Electronic Arts' Dead Space, which took the action-survival genre to a new level by introducing some interesting mechanics, in the form of dismemberment, and also in terms of space-themed horror sequences. Developed by Visceral Games, former EA Redwood Shores, ...

7 July 2009
13:11 GMT

Electronic Arts Admits Dead Space: Extraction Is a Gamble

A lot of analysts are saying that only Nintendo creates successful videogames for the Wii, even if the publisher is adamant about the fact that third-party games can sell well on its platform.One of the biggest games coming to the Wii is Dead Space: Extraction, and Frank Gibeau, the president of EA Games, is well awa...

1 July 2009
07:49 GMT

EA Released Too Many New Games in 2008

Electronic Arts is a big video game publisher that, a few years ago, gained a reputation of exploiting its franchises and never releasing any new Intellectual Properties onto the market. But in recent years, especially in 2008, the company managed to change and create a lot of new projects, which were released in th...

30 June 2009
03:05 GMT

Dead Space: Extraction Gets Dated for September

Dead Space was one of the most hyped up games of the end of 2008. Even though it was a brand new franchise, which led to the fact it lost in sales to holiday blockbusters like Gears of War 2, Fallout 3 or Resistance 2, it managed to generate a lot of fan response due to its pretty elaborate use of horror mechanics an...

2 June 2009
02:21 GMT

Dead Space Developer Talks About New Projects

The whole economy is passing through a period of recession and a lot of companies are afraid to reveal new things or products, because people will largely go for the things they are accustomed to and know what they will get from them. Such is the case with titles, as sequels and new versions of historic IPs are alway...

8 May 2009
02:24 GMT

EA Redwood Shores Is Now Visceral Games

EA Redwood Shores isn't a very catchy name, to say the least, and the abbreviation, EARS, is even worse. That is why its parent company, Electronic Arts, has just announced that the studio behind the very successful Dead Space horror, survival shooter has been renamed Visceral Games. The name change was needed ...

6 May 2009
02:18 GMT

Dead Space: Extraction Gets an Arch Welder

When Dead Space was initially released last fall, it was not exactly what publisher Electronic Arts had wanted it to be. The combination of shooter action and horror flick felt stitched together at times, but the combat was solid, the scares interesting in the first few hours and the zero gravity sections were a...

14 April 2009
14:21 GMT

Dante's Inferno Also Gets Animated Movie Treatment

Electronic Arts is slowly but surely becoming an entertainment company, not limiting itself to gaming anymore but also branching out in the movie-making industry. It has now become a great strategy to create new types of media that will accompany a game's release, as was the case with Dead Space, which received ...

31 March 2009
11:01 GMT

Dead Space: Extraction Isn't an On-Rail Shooter, Says EA

The first Dead Space was a very solid over-the-shoulder shooter that introduced some interesting mechanics to the ordinary horror survival genre, with the most important one being dismemberment. The is why a lot of people believed that the great experience was only suited to high-end platforms like the Xbox 360 and P...

23 March 2009
14:11 GMT

New Details and Screenshots of Dead Space Extraction

Last year, Dead Space brought together a lot of elements from classic horror titles and offered a high-definition perspective of a humble space engineer being forced to battle huge numbers of alien mutants that had taken over a space ship. As soon as Electronic Arts' CEO John Riccitiello announced that a versio...

19 March 2009
14:21 GMT

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Wins Big at the BAFTA Awards

In a rather weird twist, Call of Duy 4: Modern Warfare, developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision, has won three awards at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Game Awards, which were presented in London. The game was released in November 2007 and some people might wonder why the title was eve...

13 March 2009
14:11 GMT


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