dead-space-aftermath posts

Electronic Arts, the game publisher that in December bought the web site domain CampaignForPCGaming.com, is once again treating the PC platform as a second class citizen when it comes to multi-platform games. This week, even as Dead Space 2 is released, EA announced that the game will be getting a single player DLC mini-expansion, Dead Space 2 Severed, sometime in the near future

While is great, except that the DLC is strickly for Xbox 360 and PS3 owners of the game. VG247.com reports that EA won't be bringing that DLC content for the PC version. It's a case of "same old-same old" for EA who has denied PC owners a chance to demo games like Need For Speed Hot Pursuit, Dead Space 2, Bulletstorm and most recently Crysis 2. Need For Speed Hot Pursuit PC owners also won't be able to access any paid DLC content for that game.

How freaking amazing is it that that a bundle of five indie games can generate half a million dollars in just one day with a "pay what you want" business model? Yeah, that whole "PC gaming is dead" argument is toast.

• Steam updates are available today for Garry's Mod, Zen Bound 2, Nimbus and Clones.
• BioWare is holding a "12 Days of Christmas" contest where folks can win cool prizes like Mass Effect and Dragon Age-branded gaming PCs.
• The upcoming free-to-play MMO Faxion Online is now taking sign-ups for the game's closed beta test.
• Dead Space Aftermath, a new direct-to-DVD anime based on the Dead Space games, is due out on January 25. Here's a (rather bloody) trailer.
• Do you deliberately and habitually leave games in the middle of battle in League of Legends? Then get ready for the automated ban hammer to fall on you.

Electronic Arts went all out for the launch of the first Dead Space game in 2008, releasing a comic book mini-series and a DVD animated movie that served as prequels to the sci-fi survival horror game. For the release of Dead Space 2, EA is doing it again with a new animated movie and a new graphic novel in the works.

The graphic novel, Dead Space Salvage, will be released in December by IDW Publishing and will be drawn by Christopher Shy. It will tell the story of the Magpies who encounter the necromorph infested ship USG Ishimura. The new animated movie, Dead Space Aftermath, is due out on DVD in January 2011 and will tell the story of "how the Government sends an unwitting crew of people to get exposed to Marker shards."