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"In my notes about the game was another important detail, a crucial one for people with standard definition TVs like mine. Near some scribblings about the game’s interesting in-game map that Isaac can project to float in the air next to him — and some lines about the in-game (and sometimes on-character) text that indicates his health and ammo — is a jotting about the TVs they’re using.

I had been worried that I was destined to experience another “Battle For Middle Earth” squint. Some EA gam..."

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"So first an update on the game. We are in the heated center of full production. Assets are pouring into the game at an incredible rate. The Scripted Event team has completed the majority of our MoCap (motion capture) and P-Cap (performance capture) recording sessions with the actors (grown men and women standing around all day in tight black-lycra body suits covered in ping pong balls, and little tiny pencil erasers literally all over their faces. Okay...now...ACT!) and that data is making it..."

"Dead Space (Oct 31, 360/PS3/PC)

Dead Space feels eerily similar to Aliens, but the introductory trailer and our first hands-on demonstrated a level of suspense, mood, and intensity we haven't seen in a while. The premise: the entire crew of a deep space mining ship has gone missing, and it's up to you, the sole survivor, to rid the vessel of alien baddies. It should be noted that EA's survival horror only marginally beat out Left 4 Dead (360/PC), the fast-paced Zombie Killer by Valve with ..."

"Dead Space has been given an October 31st release date for both Europe and North America.

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My biggest question is, will you be able to pause your game when trick and treaters come to the door?"

"You know how when you’re really scared, like seeing what you thought was just a mannequin leave its post in Condemned, or wondering why you can’t back up in BioShock only to turn around and see a splicer blocking your path? And you either pause the game to take a breather and gather your bearings, or you beat the hell out of them in a frenzy of fear with your 2×4/wrench and then pause the game to gather your bearings? Well, in EA’s upcoming Dead Space, this technique to ease the tension and g..."

"No need to be very afraid with this one - at least, not as far as the game’s quality is concerned. Two of our correspondents have sat down for extensive run-throughs of Dead Space; both have come back from EA HQ with good words tumbling from their slack-jawed mouths. It’s hard to believe that no one has thought to mine the ‘haunted house in space’ theme for a videogame project before this, given that there’s an entire bloated genre of this stuff in cinema.

That merely means EA has more to ..."