Dead Space

Dead Space’s Worldwide Launch Strategically Dismembered by Germany, Japan, China

Those of us looking forward to EA’s survival horror game Dead Space were given a shot of good news on Thursday…as long as we weren’t in Germany, Japan, or China. The release date for the game in North America has been moved up to October 14th in North America (and October 20th for the PC…

io9 Jeff Lester

Dead Space: Does It Walk The Space Walk, Or Just Talk The Space Talk?

We’ve skewered you with the Dead Space trailer cut by James Han, peppered you with details about the Community Event at Electronic Arts Redwood Shores, and slow-basted you in details about the game’s forward-thinking dynamic lighting mesh. But apart from the briefest of mentions, we’ve held off on serving up our impressions of Dead Space…

io9 Jeff Lester

How Dead Space Blinded Us With Science, Hit Us With Technology

The developers of upcoming sci-fi survival horror game Dead Space are more than happy to show you the schematics they’ve worked up for protagonist Isaac Clarke’s ore cutter, or how a handheld graviton accelerator might work in the far future, but it was the practicalities of the game’s dynamic lighting system that blinded us with…

io9 Jeff Lester

Dead Space Makes Strategic Dismemberment A Community Event

Electronic Arts held a “Community Event” for their upcoming sci-fi survival horror game Dead Space at their Redwood City headquarters yesterday, inviting bloggers who cover video games, horror, and science fiction for a full day of presentations, discussions and, yes, strategic dismemberment. And we learned about a crucial change the developers were forced to make…

io9 Jeff Lester

The Dead Space Trailer So Scary It’s Banned

Electronic Arts recently debuted the “Lullaby” trailer for upcoming space-horror video game Dead Space. It’s creepy and gory, but did it deserve bannination? Check out this teaser trailer that’s intended “for mature audiences only.” According to Ars Technica, after seeing this trailer at E3, the press was notified that the ESRB refused to approve the…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

How To Kill A Space Mutant

It takes a certain amount of technique to kill the baddies of Dead Space the video game, the Necromorphs. Shoot ’em in the head, and that’ll only piss them off. According to this “Strategic Dismemberment” video from Dead Space special ops, it’s a matter of timing and using your surroundings, especially if you run out…

io9 Meredith Woerner

What If You Ripped a Planet Apart and Something Was Inside?

Electronic Arts has a new game coming out for Halloween called Dead Space whose backstory sounds as good as any scifi book. On an Earth with scant natural resources, mining companies go to remote planets, and rip them apart for any and all natural resources. The problem is that one mission has discovered that something…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Videogame Space Zombies Headed To Your TV

It’s just like the good old days when you couldn’t launch a new toy line without there being an attendant Saturday morning cartoon series. Electronic Arts has announced that fans of their upcoming new SF/horror game Dead Space will have an animated prequel to watch while flexing their fingers in anticipation. EA has formed a…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Amazons Vs. Space Zombies In This Week’s Comic Haul

What’s that you say? You feel that the world of comics may have many things for many people — including, this week, the long-awaited Wonder Woman revamp by a Gray’s Anatomy writer, alcoholic corporate superheroes and time-traveling cyborg mutants — but it’s still lacking the crucial element of video-game-based space zombies? Well, you’re in for…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Planet-Mining And Giant Parasites In “Dead Space”

Dead Space, a new game from Electronic Arts, brings parasitic “we want to kill you, kill you, kill you” aliens back into fashion just in time for next Halloween. In the far future, humans have depleted all of the natural resources on Earth, so private corporations begin sending out enormous ships called “Planetcrackers” that carve…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Dead Space’s Worldwide Launch Strategically Dismembered by Germany, Japan, China

Dead Space: Does It Walk The Space Walk, Or Just Talk The Space Talk?

How Dead Space Blinded Us With Science, Hit Us With Technology

Dead Space Makes Strategic Dismemberment A Community Event

The Dead Space Trailer So Scary It’s Banned

How To Kill A Space Mutant

What If You Ripped a Planet Apart and Something Was Inside?

Videogame Space Zombies Headed To Your TV

Amazons Vs. Space Zombies In This Week’s Comic Haul

Planet-Mining And Giant Parasites In “Dead Space”

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