This week you can vote on your best Survival Horror game in 2008. With only two categories to go we can then start to pick the overal Game of the Year.
The nominees are…
Dead Space
Silent Hill: Homecoming
Siren: Blood Curse
Alone in the Dark: Inferno
Condemned 2: Blood Shot
From GameWatcher: "Embracer has shut down Pieces Interactive, the studio that recently developed the Alone in the Dark Reboot for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S.
Pieces Interactive, acquired by THQ Nordic in 2017, worked on the Titan Quest franchise. Its most recent game, Alone in the Dark, received mixed critical reception at launch but was improved with subsequent patches."
Like we did not see this coming. Pieces and Alone in the Dark, had a kick me sign on their back the entire dev cycle to release. Perfect example of not reading current market trends, bad forecasting, marketing and release.
The demo they released a while back didn't leave a good impression, and it seems like they were riding far too much on Jodie Comer and David Hayter to be the driving force to buy the game. They're both great actors, but their performance on this game from what I've seen felt very stiff/forced - like they were out of their comfort zones. It's a shame to see another studio closure, though, and I hope the people effected (affected? I always get it wrong) can find more work soon.
Embracer's takeaway from this will probably be that they should focus on live service games.
Alone in the Dark developer Pieces Interactive has been hit with layoffs a month after its release, as per the latest information.
That genuinely, genuinely sucks. The reboot has clear flaws, but it really felt like a solid first step for this team to receive *greater* investment.
That's standard. Teams are together for a Project, after its done some..and sometimes most devs are fired until the next Project is in the works and people are needed again. Only the core members stay in the time between the hot phase of the game development.
An executive of Electronic Arts Japan has criticised the Japanese video game ratings board for allowing upcoming action game Stellar Blade to be released uncensored while EA's own Dead Space was banned in the country.
He’s got a point. If a game is M-Rated, which is the equivalent of an R rating, I don’t get why you need to censor anything. The rating is the indicator of the content and the age appropriate. If it’s appropriate for adults… why treat them like children? 🤷♂️
I don't know if the EA executive is going off the one close up of an arm being cut off in the demo. Maybe it's uncensored because it's the arm of a cyborg or it doesn't happen that often (didn’t see EVE dismemberment when killed in the demo) .
In the states there's a certain amount of swear words allowed to a PG13 movie before it is deemed R. So maybe it's the same in Japan for gore?
Dead Space DEAD SPACE
Edit. Sorry i should give an explanation to my choice atleast.
I new Dead Space was goin to be great from a very early stage, it was when i first saw the main character Isaac and how he looked, he stood out and he wasnt your typical sort of character - i liked that and the way he looked
I havnt actually competed the game yet im on chapter 7 but i havnt played it for a week, i tend to play it at the weekend late at night with my big set of dj headphones over my head with a BIG fat reefer in hand
I get a weird when i see things sum times that i know will be great, i got it when i first saw the trailer for the film Taken with Liam Neeson and when i also saw the trailer for the film Appaloosa and both where fantastic movies, the same went for Dead Space,
I remember a while back on N4g somebody criticized me when i said i was goin to buy Dead Space before i bought Fallout 3 - as much as i loved Fallout 3 for shear enjoyment and suspense ill hav to give it to Dead Space
Ea hav gained my trust again
Dead Space is for me even overall game of the year.
Finished the game already but now playing Military mode ;)
Awaesome game!
Dead Space, best Survival Horror game this year hands down. Kudos to EA for doing such a good job with Dead Space and I'm looking forward to the sequel.
I think the Redwood Studio will first do Dante's Inferno which looks VERY VERY promising to me. But hey - Dead Space 2 will be great of course.
Left 4 Dead ? No ? ok Dead Space gets my vote :D