Kotaku: Visceral Games

Drugs, Carnies, and Hats: The Multiplayer Shooter EA Killed

Brian Ashcraft — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:00:00 EST

Blood Dust is a multiplayer shooter on steroids. Literally. You fight against spies. You fight against soliders. You fight against carnival freaks. And you're all fighting for "blood dust", a drug that's like steroids but a hundred times better. More »

Rumor: Dead Space 3 Trades Total Darkness for Blinding Light on a Frozen Planet

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:20:00 EDT

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If EA is making another Dead Space—and it's starting to appear that it is—it may be a radical rethink of the sci-fi horror series. Gone may be the dark corridors of space ships and far-flung planetary settlements, replaced by an icy wasteland inhabited by an all-new strain of monster. More »

Is This Our First Fleeting Look At Dead Space 3?

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:20:00 EDT

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EA hasn't made it official yet, but odds are pretty damn good that there's going to be a Dead Space 3. And the above video may represent our first scant look what the next Dead Space will be. More »

Dead Space Satellite Studio Goes Belly Up

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 07:04:00 EDT

Visceral Games, the team behind the Dead Space series, had a small studio based in Melbourne, Australia. That studio is now no more, its 21 employees let go earlier today. More »

Get An Eyeful of Dead Space 2's New Add-on 'Severed'

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 18:30:00 EST

Necromorph slayers looking for more dismemberment will want to keep an eye out for the new Dead Space 2 expansion, Severed, coming (only) to Xbox Live and PlayStation Network soon. Let's see half of Dead Space 2: Severed's stars in action. More »

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

Owen Good — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:30:00 EST

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. More »

In Praise Of The New Game Plus

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 20:00:00 EST

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. More »

Dead Space 2 Designer Made This Awesome Minecraft Trailer

Owen Good — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 18:00:00 EST

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." More »

Review: Dead Space 2 Is Insanely Terrifying, Crazy Good

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:00:00 EST

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. More »

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

Mike Fahey — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:34:00 EST

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. More »

How Dead Space 2 Tuned Its 'Meat Cello'

Owen Good — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:40:00 EST

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. More »

There's A Dragon Age Prize In Every Copy Of Dead Space 2

Mike Fahey — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:20:00 EST

Are you a Dragon Age II fan that wasn't planning on purchasing Dead Space 2? Perhaps a free limited edition suit of armor can change your mind. Arise, Sir Cross-Promotion! More »

Dead Space 2 Doesn't Disappoint

Brian Crecente — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:30:00 EST

Dead Space 2 seems every bit as frightening, as innovative as the original. More »

Any Dead Space Gamesave Gives You OG Plasma Cutter in Dead Space 2

Owen Good — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 16:00:00 EST

Whether or not you've completed the original Dead Space, if you have any game save file from it on your hard drive, you'll get Isaac's original plasma cutter free for use in Dead Space 2, which arrives Jan. 25. More »

Happy Vent-Free Holidays From The Dead Space 2 Crew

Brian Crecente — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 18:20:00 EST

I suppose a few idiosyncrasies are in order for Issac. More »

Dead Space Aftermath Piles On The Cartoon Gore

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 19:40:00 EST

January offers double the Dead Space, with the sequel to Visceral Games' sci-fi horror hit landing on the 25th and the similarly gory animated spin-off, Dead Space Aftermath, arriving the same day. More »

Dead Space 2 Demo Terrifies In Time For Christmas

Mike Fahey — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 13:20:00 EST

Is Dead Space 2 really "scarier" than the original? Find out later this month, when a demo of the scary sci-fi sequel drops for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. More »

Isaac Clarke Vs. the Necromorphs of the Mushroom Kingdom

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:00:00 EST

Artist Sheridan Johns puts Donkey Kong, Yoshi and a flock of Goombas through a warp pipe and onto the USG Ishimura for an unexpected and awesome video game mash-up entry in this deviantArt contest. Even scarier than Dead Space? Maybe. More »

One Man's One-Word Dead Space 2 Review

Stephen Totilo — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 17:00:00 EST

John Riccitiello runs EA, the company that makes the Dead Space sci-fi horror games, so he's biased. Nevertheless, he just finished playing through Dead Space 2. I don't even have it yet. More »

Command & Conquer Lives On As One Of EA's Visceral Games

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:30:00 EDT

The studio best known for making Dead Space and Dante's Inferno is expanding, welcoming more developers—and more than just action adventure games—into its fold, including EA's venerable Command & Conquer strategy game series. More »

Dead Space Ignition Arrives In One Week

Owen Good — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 21:30:00 EDT

The downloadable prequel to Dead Space 2 has been booked for an Oct. 13 deployment on Xbox Live. More »

Dead Space 2 Multiplayer Beta Creeps Out To Small Group

Michael McWhertor — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 22:00:00 EDT

EA and Visceral Games are in the process of opening up Dead Space 2 multiplayer to a small group of "dedicated fans" of the series, inviting select PlayStation 3 owners into an advance beta. More »

Is Dead Space 2 The Coolest Game Of The Week?

Stephen Totilo — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:20:00 EDT

I've been watching gameplay footage of games that will be at Gamescom, and the stuff EA showed of January 2011's Dead Space 2 is currently the best I've seen. Good stuff. Perhaps you'll agree. More »

Hands-on With Dead Space 2's Jet Boots & Better Controls

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:00:00 EDT

Getting my hands on a playable demo of Dead Space 2 felt like slipping into Isaac Clarke's metal plated space suit—powerful, unsettling, familiar and a little awkward. More »

Dead Space 2 Prequel Hits PS3, Xbox 360 This Fall

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:40:00 EDT

Visceral Games' sequel to sci-fi horror game Dead Space won't touch down on the PlayStation 3, PC and Xbox 360 until January 2011, but a new "interactive comic-style game" will hit those consoles this fall. More »

Dead Space 2 Box Art More About Isaac, Less About Dismembered Hands

Michael McWhertor — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 20:00:00 EDT

EA lifted the veil on the box art for Dead Space 2 today, well in advance of the game's release on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. Gone is the sci-fi space gore in favor of Isaac Clarke face time. Like it? More »

Dead Space Extraction Guiding Its Way To PS3, Xbox 360?

Michael McWhertor — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:40:00 EDT

Visceral Games' sci-fi horror experience Dead Space Extraction appears (again) to be making the leap from critically successful, commercially disappointing Wii game to high-definition do-over, thanks to EA Montreal. More »

Isaac Look Out! New Dead Space 2 Screens!

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 18 May 2010 20:00:00 EDT

We're still a good six months (or more) from the release of Dead Space 2, so a slow trickle of screens from Visceral Games' sci-fi horror adventure feels more like teasing than anything else. More »

Dead Space 2 Will Haunt The PC

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 11 May 2010 19:40:00 EDT

After some back and forth about the fate of the PC version of Visceral Games' Dead Space 2, it appears the sci-fi horror game will indeed scare up a release on Windows. More »

Dante's Inferno: The Trials of St. Lucia Review: Totilo's Inferno

Stephen Totilo — Thu, 06 May 2010 16:00:00 EDT

The new expansion to Dante's Inferno was partially developed by me. And one of you — one of you how can't appreciate sublime game design — gave my contribution one out of five stars. More »

What Do You See In This First Dead Space 2 Trailer?

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:00:00 EDT

Our first official peek at Dead Space 2 in motion picture form is here, a spooky teaser that doesn't tell us too much about Visceral Games' sequel, other than that Isaac Clark has a bad-ass new suit. More »

Another Dead Space Prequel, Only This One You Read

Mike Fahey — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:20:02 EDT

Acclaimed writer B. K. Evenson delves into the history of the Church of Unitology and the origin of the mysterious "Black Marker" in Dead Space: Martyr, a prequel to Visceral Games' sci-fi horror spectacular. More »

Eight Billion Years Of Dead Space

Mike Fahey — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:00:00 EDT

For Dead Space 2 executive producer Steve Papoutsis, PAX East was an amazing opportunity to connect with the fans that could keep the franchise going for "eight billion years." More »

Dead Space 2: More Fun With Severed Limbs

Mike Fahey — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:00:00 EDT

Dead Space's strategic dismemberment system was a lot of fun, but ultimately a waste of perfectly good limbs. Executive producer Steve Papoutsis tells Kotaku one way the sequel will keep the fun going even after someone loses an arm. More »

Dead Space 2 First Look: Isaac on a Train

Owen Good — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:00:00 EDT

About 30 seconds of gameplay from the upcoming Dead Space 2 was just shown at PAX East during a panel discussion of the game. In it, Isaac flies through a few runaway train cars and zaps a necromorph. More »

A Bit More Info On The Makers of Dead Space's Next, Mysterious Game

Brian Crecente — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:40:00 EDT

Late last year two unearthed trademark applications seemed to lend credence to rumors that Electronic Arts was working on a game based on Jack the Ripper, but we haven't heard anything new about the game since... until now. More »

Go To Hell With Today's Live Podcast

Brian Crecente — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:00:00 EDT

It's hump day, it's also St. Patrick's Day, but much more importantly, it's Kotaku Talk Radio day. Today we've got Hans ten Cate, senior producer, for Dante's Inferno. More »

It Wasn't God of War That Dante's Inferno Borrowed From

Brian Crecente — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:00:00 EST

During their Scoring Hell talk at the Game Developers Conference, the folks behind the sounds and music of Dante's Inferno boiled down their game to its essence: Donkey Kong upside down. More »

A Musical Journey Through Dante's Hell

Brian Crecente — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:00:00 EST

As I mentioned in my review of Dante's Hell, I loved the scoring and sound of Visceral's take on hell. More »

Visceral Games Has Some XBLA, PSN Games In The Works Too

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:40:00 EST

Fresh off the release of Dante's Inferno and with plenty of time between now Dead Space 2's release, developer Visceral Games has other unannounced titles in the works for Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network to keep them busy. More »