EA will reportedly revive Dead Space IP with new 'reimagining'

EA volition reportedly revive Expressionless Space IP with new 'reimagining'

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It seems that EA didn't get the memo that E3 2021 is over as the publisher is ready to announce a Dead Space revival for later next month.

The news first came from Venturebeat journalist Jeff Grubb, who uploaded a video on his YouTube aqueduct, claiming that EA was aiming to bring back "an established IP." That factoid was later corroborated by Gematsu, which went on to merits that the IP in question was Expressionless Space. The project is apparently being headed by EA's Motive Studios in Montreal, and volition not exist a sequel to Dead Infinite 3, simply instead a "reimagining."

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Beyond this one bit of data, nothing else is known about the championship. But the publisher will have its EA Play live event on July 22, where information technology's possible the game volition be revealed.

Expressionless Space was a survival horror franchise developed past Visceral Games. It quickly became a hit amidst gamers thanks to its Conflicting-like setting and potent gameplay systems. The game, at the time, was likewise visually complex and interesting.

The serial spawned three table games, with the first releasing in 2008. The most recent game, Dead Space 3, released in 2013. Visceral Games was shuttered by EA in 2017.

Motive Studios' well-nigh contempo title was 2020's Star Wars: Squadrons. The game received solid praise beyond the gaming press and currently sits at a 79 on Metacritic.

Interestingly, the original squad at Visceral left EA to course a new studio called Hit Distance in 2019. It's under the PUBG Corporation umbrella. The team are currently working on the Callisto Protocol, a game that bears a striking resemblance to Dead Infinite. Actually, information technology's already been dubbed a spiritual successor to the Dead Space franchise.

And then, in a bizarre twist of fate, the original Dead Space developers might exist competing against a revived version of Dead Space.

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