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How could they top that? They haven’t, but they’ve got Isaac Clarke’s helmet on the cover – probably one of the more recognisable helmets out there. It’s like an unfolding or self-unpacking one.
The game should be out next year for multiple consoles, including, yes… the PC.
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Source: Dead Space 2 Box Art Keeps It Simple [Cinemablend]
The PC version of Dead Space 2 was in doubt for a while, but then some financial record was seen, and on it it said that a PC version of the title was scheduled for Q1 2011.
EA later confirmed that Dead Space 2 is in fact arriving on the PC, tweeting on twitter:
"Dead Space PC lovers can relax! Dead Space 2 is officially coming to PC."
The game is also arriving on consoles and handhelds next year, and EA wants to make sure that fans of the first game are happy with the sequel:
“One of the focuses of the development team is to listen to the various types of feedback.”
“We do different sets of focus testing, we’re always checking out our Facebook page to see what the community is saying, and we have to balance all that feedback, as you said, to make sure that the game comes out as the players want it.”
“One of our goals with the game, is to make sure that when we release it, is making sure that it surpasses what we did with the previous game. That’s important to us.”
“Also, another thing that’s important to us, is for the people that have supported us this long, that have been into the franchise, are happy with what we deliver.”
“So, we’re paying a lot of attention, we’re going back and forth as far as a lot of different tweaks and things that we’re going to do to the game to make sure it’s a game that people want.”
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Sources:
Dead Space 2 Now Confirmed For PC [G4tv]
Dead Space 2: Visceral wants to make sure fans are “happy” with sequel [VG247]
Both retail and digital distribution versions of the game are planned for Xbox 360, while the PS3 will only get it via PSN.
Pete Jones of Dark Energy Digital:
“Hydrophobia is of a production quality that only the best at retail can match and yes it is of a comparable gameplay length to an AAA retail game."
"We produced the engine principally because it conveys a massive productivity benefit - basically it allows a small team like ourselves to produce a big budget game."But it had a spin off effect of producing a game to an impossibly small file size. Impossibly small meaning under 1GB."My bizarre analogy for this is Viagra. It was developed as a heart drug but had an interesting side effect."
"Size matters. Not sure that the industry has quite grasped this one yet. All of a sudden everyone talks about downloading games. But this bright digital future has a big elephant sitting in their virtual room. Until developers produce games with IW or its equivalent it will remain a dream."
I’ve seen the trailer for Hydrophobia not too long ago on The Verge, and the latest NAG cover DVD, which came out on Thursday the 29th, also had it on there. It looks like a cross between Dead Space and BioShock. It’s a third person game set on some vessel that’s flooded with water – hence the name hydrophobia: the irrational fear of water.
Interesting fact: hydrophobia is a symptom of rabies.
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Source: Hydrophobia release and platforms clarified [IncGamers]
The 368 page book is authored by Brian Evenson, an award-winning author, published by Tor Books, with a July 20 release date penned.
Eric Raab, Tor editor:
"One of the most compelling storytelling aspects of Dead Space has been the Church of Unitology: It’s origins, power, and role in Dead Space. Writer B.K. Evenson gets into the terrifying aspects of mob mentality like no other writer today. This isn't only a great story within the Dead Space universe; it's a great novel on its own."
Novel Blurb:
When geophysicist Michael Altman learns of a mysterious signal emitting from deep within the Chicxulub crater, he cannot resist the lure of an undiscovered artefact. He soon learns that being in close proximity to the artefact causes strange occurrences – visions of the dead, vivid dreams, and violent murders. Altman’s experience with the alien artefact leads to this crucial first chapter in the Dead Space saga.
The next part in the series, which would probably be Dead Space 2 – the video game- will reportedly come out later this year, for consoles and handhelds only it seems. A PC version is under consideration, but looking doubtful.
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Sources:
“Dead Space: Martyr Novel Coming This Summer” [The Escapist]
This likely means that I’m going to start changing the format of my posts like the weekly releases posts, and the video game deals posts to include all the outlets in them.
This week on Digital Deals, there’s some big ones, with Mass Effect 2 getting a little bit of a price drop. The Saboteur, Dead Space, Crysis Warhead, and Cryostasis as well as numerous games on D2D have price reductions.
GamersGate goes retro with some deals on Jagged Alliance 2 Gold and Hired Guns: The Jagged Edge [formerly known at one point as Jagged Alliance 3D].
Direct2Drive
Deals
Joint Operations Combined Arms is $7.50 until Friday, the 9th of April.
Crysis Warhead, the standalone expansion for Crysis, is at $19.95.
Dead Space, considered one of the best games of 2008 - $19.95
Saboteur - $29.95
Mass Effect 2 is $15 off, at $49.95 until Sunday.
Cryostasis is 75% Off, at $12.95.
Guild Wars Prophecies is now $19.95 [was $29.95 - $10 off].
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed: Ultimate Sith Edition is now $29.95 [was $39.95 - $10 off]
Star Wars The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes is now $19.95 [was $29.95 - $10 off]
New Releases
Silmarils Collection just $14.95
GamersGate
Deals
Hired Guns The Jagged Edge: $12.49
: $9.97
Bob Came in Pieces at 40% off on PC, at $9.95.
Bob Came in Pieces Mac at 40% off on Mac, at $9.95.
Massive Assault: 19.99
Massive Assault: Phantom Renaissance: $12.95
Massive Assault Network 2: $27.95
New Releases
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat (Loyalty Edition)
Alien Dominion: The Acronian Encounter
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Sources: Direct2Drive - GamersGate
Dead Space 2, the sequel to the critically-acclaimed Dead Space, is going to receive a demo. And this time, they are going to make sure that it’s more punctual than the first game’s one. Supposedly the Dead Space demo arrived late, and cost the game some needed sales, which was what they really needed seeing as it was an original IP, and publishers are wary about those nowadays.
Executive Producer Steve Papoutsis:
“Last time, I just heard a lot of comments like ‘The demo was way too hard,’ or ‘It kind of came out after the fact.’ We’re really putting an emphasis on making sure that we have something there so that new people can check it out. There’s a lot of people that seem interested and we just want to give them an opportunity to check it out and get into it.”
"It's a tricky line, right? There's some games you play a demo [of] and you never wind up buying it because 'I got my fill!’. It's our goal to deliver a game that not only after every single chapter you want to keep going, but we want the demo to be the kind of event where you play it and you go 'Holy shit, I'm going out right now, I've got to get this!' That's one of the goals that we're driving towards and I think we're going to nail that."
I didn’t even know Dead Space had a demo. I went out and bought the game though.
Also interesting is that Isaac Clarke will now speak in Dead Space 2, whereas people who have played the original game would have noticed that Isaac pretty much kept quiet the whole time, and most of the other characters did the talking.
“The voice thing is really just about making the game believable. So, the first game, there really wasn’t anybody around, there wasn’t anybody for him to talk to. And in the new game, c’mon, he’s just been through this horrific experience and there might be some people around, so it would make sense that he may actually speak. It was an evolution based around what the story required, and just the fact that it’s tough to stomach that some guy’s not going to talk for another however many hours Dead Space 2 is.”
Rich Briggs:
“Isaac is going to have some reaction to this. He’s going to see a lot of very terrible things, even worse in Dead Space 2, and we’ve gotta make him feel like a believable character. If you saw somebody rip their heart [out] in front of you, you probably wouldn’t just keep walking.”
Yes, we don’t want another Gordon Freeman.
Now I know all this sounds great. But for the minority out there [PC gamers], you should take into account that Dead Space 2 might not arrive on PC, the last I heard. It’s in consideration.
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Sources:
Dead Space 2 demo confirmed [TVGB]
Visceral explains why Isaac speaks in Dead Space 2 [TVGB]
Dead Space was a game that was highly recommended to me by at least two or three people. My brother liked it a lot, and one of the staff at NAG, when I e-mailed him, said it was very good- especially the in-game sound. Some even said it was like the System Shock 3 we never got.
Well, I played it, and true it was scary, and the sound was pretty impressive. But as a PC gamer, I might not get the chance to play the sequel, seeing as Dead Space 2 for the PC, at this time, is not in the plan and under consideration. Those are terms that have been thrown around regarding the subject.
Dead Space 2 will appear on the Xbox 360 and PS3, and possibly handhelds at some point, and it should be out early in 2011, somewhere in the first quarter.
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Source: Bluesnews - VG247
So, I was just talking about Dead Space 2 on that article about games that might not make 2010, and I’ve added some of the new Dead Space 2 screenshots the the gallery at the top of the page.
Is it just me, or does it look like a really lazy bunch of screens? It’s like one scene and they took different angles of it. Ah, but the original site it appeared on says that it was meant to be like that. It’s a 3D diorama, and the screens are just captures of it.
I see…
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http://gameinformer.com/p/deadspace3d.aspx
http://gallery.thatvideogameblog.com/dead-space-2/
http://www.vg247.com/2010/01/04/dead-space-2-first-shots/
