EA said no, Jeff Green says yes, then changes it to a maybe

Feb 11, 2010 17:31 GMT  ·  By

Visceral Games might have made an impression with its Dead Space survival horror when the developer released it on the PC, but it looks like the recent dilemma of "To PC release or to not PC release" is once again brought up. While EA did push to port some of its titles to the PC in the past, like Mirror's Edge, it looks like the second installment in the Dead Space saga has a very murky future. Just a few days ago, the publisher released its financial report and Dead Space 2 was listed as a console and handheld title only, with a PC version of the game not listed.

In to time at all, the news spread like wild fire, and while some hoped it was a misprint or anything of the sort, an official statement blew all those hopes away. Yesterday, EA told Blue News that, "As of right now a PC sku is not in the plan," announcing the PC demise of DS2. Even so, there were some over-the-top optimistic gamers that hoped the "not in plan" statement just meant that Visceral planned to just go with the flow, and improvise.

While that's not really an option, the optimists might have been right to place their trust into the positive chi of the universe. Jeff Green, a former game journalist and currently an EA employee, wrote on his Tweeter page, "Rumor fact check. There *will* be a PC version of Dead Space 2. Worry not!" Of course, while his former profession might have gotten the best of him and, in his enthusiasm, he decided to share the great news with us, something quickly changed, as he later added that, "Fact checking my fact check: Dead Space 2 PC is just 'Under Consideration.' DOH I'm just an excitable PC dork. Should I start the petition?"

Chances are that a petition is not, and will not be needed at all. By the looks of it, chances are higher that he does know something concrete, and Dead Space 2 will come to the PC, but someone at EA just didn't like their secrets spilling out the front door. As such, the company has most likely reminded him that he's now on the other side of the fence, working for a publisher, where the secrets are being kept, not working for the press anymore, where rumors are being spread.