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EA’s Dead Space 3 was just released a few weeks ago to the delight of horror-game fans as the new title removed the strange multiplayer modes found in Dead Space 2, replacing it with a co-op mode. As of this writing, the game is currently rated between 75 – 80 on Metacritic, which means it should be considered a good game. Unfortunately, EA is reportedly killing the franchise today.

According to a source familiar with Dead Space 4 speaking to VideoGamer.com, the development for the game was stopped by EA due to poor sales of Dead Space 3. The game was already in pre-production at Visceral Games and Visceral Montreal, the latter was reportedly closed due to a company restructuring.

At this point, this is purely hearsay as no official word has come from EA announcing either the retirement of the Dead Space series or the shuttering of Visceral Montreal. Considering Dead Space 3 teased a sequel in its post-game credits sequence, we’d find it hard to believe the company would go through the trouble of teasing fans in order to cancel its follow-up game weeks after its release.

[Update: EA has responded to today’s rumor with the following statement: “While we have not announced sales for Dead Space 3, we are proud of the game and the franchise remains an important IP to EA.”]

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We’re just a few weeks away from the release of Dead Space 3 and aside from preparing ourselves with its co-op goodness, we’re also preparing a dictionary of foul language to yell at the Kinect version of the game to see what some of those mysterious rewards the game’s developers teased a few weeks ago. We know there are those of you who want a closer look at the game through the eyes of its developers, which is why EA is making a special “Dead Space 3 Dev Team Edition” available on February 5.

The Dead Space 3 Dev Team Edition offers exclusive merchandise such as the Tin Collector’s Case, which is a 14″x9″ tin case that is covered with mysteries and trivia from all three Dead Space games. The Dev Team Edition will also include Serrano’s Journal filled with closed and artwork, an art book, a flip book “Data Pad,” med-pack, poster pack, a postcard set and an 8″ hand-sculpted marker statue.

If you’ve got $160 to burn and you really love Dead Space, the Dev Team Edition is available for pre-sale, although if you already Dead Space 3 pre-ordered, you can pick up the Dev Team Edition without the game for only $100.

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Two weeks ago, we heard about EA supporting Xbox 360′s Kinect in Dead Space 3 and immediately became excited at the prospect of being able to yell at our co-op partner nonstop throughout the game. Not only will we be able to yell out orders to our co-op buddy, but it looks as though the game will recognize certain words yelled at certain moments in the game, specifically curse words.

During an interview with CVG, Dead Space 3 producer Steve Papoutsis revealed a number of hidden voice commands can be triggered through swearing the right word at the right time.

“…there are commands where you might be in a certain situation and you might yell a specific expletive and it might behave in a way that you want it to.”

What those commands are, when they need to be yelled to trigger something and their results are, of course, unknown at this time. When Dead Space 3 is released on February 5th, we’ll be sure to curse our lungs out at every moment we can, even while we’re browsing our inventory. You never know what a good F-bomb could bring up in there.

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We all know that Dead Space has been very well-received due to its spine-tingling fear factor but apparently for the same reason it’s not doing well enough with most of the mainstream gaming audience – at least according to what EA discovered with its research. It seems that people have been asking for a way to play the game with friends because it was too scary and it looks like EA is going to deliver with Dead Space 3. EA claims that Dead Space 3 is “no less scary” and “true to its roots” – so you can expect it to be just as terrifying as the previous two games, but now you have the option of playing it with a friend to share some of the tension.

EA hopes that Dead Space 3 will turn the Dead Space franchise into one of its biggest sellers – by making the upcoming game more accessible to a wider audience, I guess it will help it reach the goal. What do you think of co-op in Dead Space 3? Will it make you more likely to check out the game if you haven’t played the previous two before?

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