Former EA developer and Dead Space creator Glen Schofield really wants to make a new game in the sci-fi horror series, and is apparently already calling Electronic Arts following the news that Saudi Arabia, with some help from private equity firms, is planning to buy up the Battlefield and Madden publisher.
Schofield’s last big game was 2022’s Dead Space-like The Callisto Protocol. It wasn’t a smash hit, and he left the studio he helped found to build the game less than a year after shipping it. But he’s not done making games. He’s currently the director at Pinstripe Games, a studio that hasn’t announced what it’s working on, and he also told IGN in a recent interview that he’s got “quite a few” ideas for more games, including Dead Space 4. But the last time Schofield went to the publisher to talk Dead Space, it wasn’t interested.
“I went to [EA] recently and they’re like no, we’re not interested anymore,” Schofield told IGN. “I said, ‘I can get back the leadership team.’ I need the models from [Dead Space remake developer] EA Motive, and I can save you 30 to 40 million dollars on the idea that I have. And, they’re like, ‘no.'”
But now that EA is set to be bought up by Saudi Arabia, assuming the United States government doesn’t get involved and block the deal, Schofield thinks there’s a chance for Dead Space 4 to happen, or at least for the franchise to be sold off and expanded into new media.
In a different interview with VGC, Schofield praised AI, told devs to start learning how to use it, and further elaborated that the people who are planning to buy EA don’t know anything about video games.
“Give me $75 million and I’ll make you something. Because you can save more money with a great creative idea than you can with AI,” Schofield told VGC. That might not happen anytime soon, but Schofield can always give EA $40 bucks and buy the Dead Space cosmetic pack in the recently released Skate reboot.Â
