EA hasn’t cancelled Dead Space 2 Remake, because it never existed

thesixthaxis.com:

Following rumours that EA had cancelled a Dead Space 2 Remake project at EA Motive, the publisher has taken the unusual step of shooting down the story with a public statement. Dead Space 2 remake wasn’t cancelled… because it never existed.

Following the critical success of the Dead Space remake last year, series fans had hoped and expected that Motive would roll straight into remaking Dead Space 2. The rumours this week suggested that a Dead Space 2 remake was being cancelled after EA decided that the first remake hadn’t sold well enough – to be fair, a January release is tricky to navigate, especially if there’s another horror game remake just around the corner!

Per Jason Schreier, an EA spokesperson flatly denied that the project had been shelved, stating the there is “no validity to this story.” Further sources for Bloomberg confirmed that Motive has been working on other projects for nearly a year, including Iron Man, and has recently started working on the Battlefield franchise.

Schreier’s further reporting in a full article on Bloomberg goes further than this, explaining that EA Motive did spend a few months “conceiving ideas for a new entry in the series,” but that this conceptual stage didn’t get very far (admittedly in part because the remake missed internal targets), and that the main effort was really to create a new game in the series, as opposed to another remake.

So yes, there was some bandying about of another Dead Space game, but it didn’t get far enough to be greenlit by EA’s higher ups, and the team from the remake moved on to other projects anyway.

Either way, it’s sad news for fans of the series, especially because Dead Space was a sublime remake that modernised a horror game classic in some tasteful ways. “EA Motive have done incredible work with the Dead Space remake to bring a horror classic up to date,” Nick wrote in our review, “injecting true horror back into the genre alongside considered changes and expansions to the original story. It’s