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Dead Space 2′s Religion Not A Swipe At Scientology, Says Creator

Despite its resemblance to Scientology, Unitology – Dead Space’s fictitious religion – isn’t a parody of the controversial church, the game’s creative director told MTV Multiplayer. “I think people get that because the name is very similar,” he said.

February 1, 2011
PC

In Praise Of The New Game Plus

Last week, I played through Dead Space 2. This week, I’ll see it through to the end one more time, perhaps having more fun, feeling less stressed, better appreciating its immense technical and visual artistry. Let’s hear it for New Game Plus.

January 31, 2011
PC

Community Review: Dead Space 2

Kotaku AU

Don’t get me wrong, being married is great, but it does have its downsides. The major one in this case being that I still haven’t had the chance to get started on Dead Space 2, despite having it in my possession for the past week and a half. Some of you guys would have played it over the weekend – what did you think?

News

Dead Space 2 Designer Made This Awesome Minecraft Trailer

A Visceral Games engineer built this Minecraftized trailer to celebrate Dead Space 2. “I put it up in time for launch but it was too dark,” he writes. “Now that the partying has worn off, I remembered to brighten it.”

January 27, 2011
News

The Horror! What Makes Video Games Scary?

Kotaku AU

What scares you in video games? What makes video games scary? Is it the lighting, the atmosphere, the visuals, the sound design? In this in-depth interview we quiz Dead Space 2 Producer Shereif Fattouh on the science of scaring gamers.

News

How Dead Space 2′s Lighting Will Scare The Crap Out Of You

Kotaku AU

Dead Space 2 finally goes on sale today, and chances are it will scare the living shit out of you. Fancy a look behind the scenes showing exactly how they’ll be scaring the shit out of you? Well you came to the right place…

January 26, 2011
PC

Review: Dead Space 2 Is Insanely Terrifying

Dead Space 2 now has me thinking video games may not be a healthy pursuit after all. Despite playing through the original Dead Space twice, my heart was not as well-conditioned to its horrors as I originally thought.

News

Dead Space 2: Severed DLC Reunites Players With Some Old Friends

Visceral Games’ first batch of downloadable content for Dead Space 2 is Severed, a single-player add-on starring Gabe Weller and Lexine Murdock from Dead Space Extraction. Severed will hit the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live in the coming weeks.

January 24, 2011
News

Dead Space 2’s Lessons Learned: “No more ADS Cannons”

Kotaku AU

On the eve of the launch of Visceral Games’ much hyped sequel to their survival horror shooter, Dead Space 2’s producer, Shereif Fattouh let’s us in on where they went wrong the first time ‘round and what they’ve done to make round two right.

January 22, 2011
PlayStation

How Dead Space 2 Tuned Its ‘Meat Cello’

Nearly a year ago, the Dead Space 2 production team crowdsourced one of the game’s signature kill animations, in which the player and a necromorph are locked in combat. “Meat Cello”, which you’ll see when the game releases, was chosen.

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