{"id":5358,"date":"2010-02-10T10:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T08:56:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"no-plans-for-dead-space-2-on-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/5358-no-plans-for-dead-space-2-on-pc","title":{"rendered":"No plans for Dead Space 2 on PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the release of its 2011 fiscal year line up yesterday, mega publisher EA has confirmed that it has no plans to release upcoming horror shooter Dead Space 2 on PC.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluesnews.com\/s\/107212\/no-pc-dead-space-2\" target=\"_blank\">Blue&rsquo;s News <\/a>an EA representative revealed that &ldquo;as of right now a PC sku is not in the plan&rdquo;, no reason why was given. <br \/>This is particularly puzzling given the publisher&rsquo;s confirmation three months ago that it would indeed be releasing a PC version alongside an Xbox 360 and PS3 port.<\/p>\n<p>According to executive producer Steve Papouts in a EA press release Dead Space will throw players back into the action wherin &#8220;the infection continues to spread throughout space and our hero Isaac Clarke is the only person able to contain it. There are still loads of Necromorphs that need killing,&#8221; <br \/>&#8220;In Dead Space 2, not everything is exactly as it seems. Expect plot twists that will surprise you and a huge cast of twisted, disgusting monsters that are sure to scare the daylights out of you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite generally positive reviews, Dead Space 2&rsquo;s predecessors Dead Space and Dead Space Extraction have yielded average sales figures for EA. Nonetheless EA CEO John Riccitiello has previously referred to the franchise as a &ldquo;long term big winner for us&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>A recent study by market research group NPD showed that survival horror titles such as Resident Evil and Left 4 Dead are some of the most popular among gamers. EA may be hoping to better take advantage of this market with Dead Space 2.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php?p=177116#post177116\" target=\"_self\">Discuss no Deadspace 2<\/a> for PC in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EA backtracks on previous announcements<\/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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5358","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=5358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}