EA just announced an all-new IP for the Xbox 360 and PS3 to be released in 2008. From their press release:

Electronic Arts announced that the award-winning EA Redwood Shores Studio has been developing an original intellectual property that will introduce a new experience to the sci-fi horror genre. In the brilliant, bold and often-bloody Dead Space™ gamers will step into a third-person sci-fi survival horror experience that promises to deliver the ultimate in psychological thrills and gruesome action.

Set in the cold blackness of deep space, the atmosphere is soaked with a feeling of tension, dread and sheer terror. In Dead Space, players step into the role of engineer Isaac Clarke – an ordinary man on a seemingly routine mission to fix the communications systems aboard a deep space mining ship. It is not long before Isaac awakes to a living nightmare when he learns that the ship’s crew has been ravaged by a vicious alien infestation. He must fight through the dead silence and darkness of deep space to stay alive.

Sounds pretty cool, it's also a bit unlike EA to be embracing something like this - even their Medal of Honor series has steered clear of blood all this time (though the new one does get away with a little, but I digress). Stay tuned for more as we have it, but so far no screens or videos have been released.

i hope they are promising to keep up their reputation for half-baked bug-ridden releases that require 5 patches before the game is in a playable state. that's what i look forward to with EA.

Sounds like Resident Evil in space, not that thats a bad thing at all.

they could have decided on a better name

EA doing new games? preposterous!


Also, in before game of the year.

that storyline duzznt sound very original. it needs demons or dragons or ninjas or some sorta giegeresque alien xenomorph.

i thought they got a new ip adress

only EA could introduce a new videogame have have the gaul to use the words 'intellectual property' in the spiel.

I'm sure the shareprice jumped a bit when they announced that pile of poo

Space Marine Terminator Squad + Tyranids = Win.

Now now guys.. don't be so harsh. I'm sure by the fifth or sixth game they'll have the engine's bugs worked out and it'll at least run when you install it.

SPACE MAAAADNESSSS

DON'T PUSH THE BIG RED BUTTON

I think it's funny that they're announcing NEW IP!!! ... instead of a new game.

I hope they remember to make it fun and bug-free while they're working on increasing the size of the swimming pools full of cash with NEW IP!!!