The DICE conference has thrown up some decent honesty this year what with Bobby Kotick speaking candidly about being the Deathstar and the Harmonix affair last week. And now we get to EA’s CEO speaks about the failures that are Mirror’s Edge and Dead Space. To his credit he pretty much blames his own company saying that they didn’t get …

Not content with just having two development houses – Infinity Ward and Treyarch – on call to churn out Call of Duty games, Activision have apparently signed up a third developer for the rapidly-approaching-critical-mass franchise. There’s no word on who the developer may be, although fingers are currently pointing at Sledgehammer Games, a new Activision-owned studio comprised of former Visceral …

A news article by credible news provider Reuters has let slip that Dead Space 2, sequel to one of my favourite games from 2008, will be freaking the bloody bejesus out of gamers in 2010. “Electronic Arts has a pair of horror offerings for gamers,” Reuters affirms Last Updated: October 30, 2009

So I was busy checking release dates just a few moments ago and this just popped up. The first details of Dead Space for Wii have been made available and it’s actually looking pretty awesome. The game is releasing under the title of Dead Space: Extraction and to make things interesting, the protagonist is going to be a woman. Now …

Did you know that Dead Space was originally being created for the original Xbox? Neither did I. What’s more interesting is that they shifted the entire game over to next-gen, which means that they have been working on it for quite some time now. If you take a look at this video, you can see that while the graphics of …

This is a nice story to come across, I was a little worried that EA would be closing ranks after it’s new IP’s that were released last year didn’t blow away the competition on their first outing. However their VP of communication, Jeff Brown, has come out and confirmed EA’s commitment to trying out new IP’s and taking chances in …

EA, in conference call today revealed some of their sales figures for the last quarter of 2008. Valve’s zombie-tastic co-op shooter Left 4 Dead has managed to sell 1.8 million retail copies on PC and Xbox 360. Naturally, this excludes copies of the game sold through Valve’s own Steam service. Rock Band 2, MTV Games’ second venture in to the …

Earlier today, Kotaku reported that whilst on an Electronic Arts’ Q3 2009 earnings call, EA Head Honcho John Riccitiello made mention of Dead Space for Wii. According to the post, there is not much information on it at the moment except that it will be pretty much exactly the same as the console and PC versions and that it is …