Gaming🎮 Dead Space appears to be dead... again

[Royal_Lizard]

Brace yourself. Dead Space, well, it appears to be dead again. Yep, EA's reportedly put the series "on hold" for the second time, though, it does at least seem like some ideas for a new entry were briefly considered early last year, though none of them were actually given permission to become a thing.

This news follows a chain of events which began with Giant Bomb's Jeff Grubb reporting that a Dead Space 2 remake was in development, before being canceled. EA quickly responded to that, sending a statement to IGN which said "We don't normally comment on rumours, but there is no validity to this story." Now, following some digging, it seems that the remake was one of a couple of ideas that were briefly explored, before EA opted to put the series on pause.

That last part's according to Bloomberg's Jason Schreier, who's reported that EA elected to put Dead Space back on hiatus "as early as last spring", with any desires from developers to make a new entry apparently being "derailed after sales of the remake missed the company’s expectations".

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