{"id":4846,"date":"2009-11-17T11:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T09:34:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"dead-space-2-to-feature-multiplayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/4846-dead-space-2-to-feature-multiplayer","title":{"rendered":"Dead Space 2 to feature multiplayer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent EA job listing picked up by<a href=\"http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/2009\/11\/14\/ea-job-listing-hints-at-online-multiplayer-for-dead-space-2\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Joystiq<\/a>, Visceral Games&rsquo; Dead Space sequel could bring online multiplayer to the series.<\/p>\n<p>The listing, found on LinkedIn, is seeking a &#8220;Senior Online Level Designer for the Dead Space franchise on Xbox360 and PS3.&#8221; who should &#8220;be able to work collaboratively with Creative Director and Online Producer to create extremely fun, satisfying and polished multiplayer levels.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although only console versions were mentioned this may mean that Visceral intends to offer multiplayer support across all ports of the game with a primary focus on the console releases.<\/p>\n<p>Although Dead Space 2 has not yet been officially announced news agency Reuters reported earlier this month that the game will be released next year.<\/p>\n<p>In late September another job listing on LinkedIn revealed that &ldquo;&#8221;The game is in the later stages of pre-production, ready for production in the next few months, with many of the navigational and combat mechanics in place,&#8221; and added that the Dead Space 2 team will have &#8220;complete autonomy and creative control&#8221; in its decisions on the game.<\/p>\n<p>Currently Visceral Games is busying itself with the development of Dante&rsquo;s Inferno which is due for release in February next year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php?p=143712#post143712\" target=\"_self\">Discuss potential multiplayer for Dead Space 2 <\/a>in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Job listing suggests Dead Space sequel will include online multiplayer support<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}