IGN - Steve Papoutsis, the Executive Producer on Battlefield Hardline, is no longer the General Manager at Visceral Games.
If you saw The Game Awards, then you known Call of Duty and Dead Space veterans are creating The Callisto Protocol, a new survival horror game coming in 2022. Striking Distance Studios has quickly built a team of 150 developers in San Ramon, California, to create a science fiction game in the survival horror genre.
I miss Dead Space so much that I began another play through last night. Aside from some graphical improvements this game was innovative and well ahead of its time.
The games set in the PlayerUnknown universe... is that supposed to be a joke?
I thought this was a proper new Dead Space. I mean the trailer is even an engineer with the green light meter on his back. What’s going on?
VG247: "We talk about pushing the genre forward, life after triple-A and whether the death of single-player games has been overstated."
So amped for this game. Good interview even if they have to keep a lot secret right now. Seems they have creative freedom being away from EA. Crossing fingers on this one.
Nah I think they need EA. They need a good publisher who willing them to give them lots of resources/
They don't need EA EA ruined Visceral shut down the studio and shelved the Dead Space franchise EA basically ruined Bioware. If the old staff is there from Visceral I doubt they want to deal with EA once bitten twice shy. Activision would be the same way The Callisto Protocol would be better with Sega, Sony, Namco, Capcom, maybe even Ubisoft or Square.
EA kills studios.
EA killed Dead Space/Visceral.
They demanded they quickly push out a B-tier Battlefield between the main releases, then crammed microtransactions down Dead Space 3's throat, all the while saying both games needed unrealistic expectations sales to be seen as as "viable".
Both games turned a decent profit, just didn't hit said "expectations" and they quickly closed down a talented studio, and killed one of the best horror series gaming has seen in a long time; and also killed a highly anticipated Star Wars game in the process.
EA is actually a terrible publisher who happens to make great profit only because they make use of large properties, and double down on anti-consumer dlc.
What is this nonsense about the game being set in the same universe as PUBG? The game sounds great but the idea of being set in the PUBG universe sounds utterly ridiculous.
We don't know if it is or it isn't but it's really not that ridiculous. It's a vast world, universe even. While a bunch of people somewhere are shooting at each other your sitting down for a peaceful breakfast. Why is it so ridiculous to think that somewhere in the same world something completely different could be happening.
Because PUBG is not sci-fi. It's set in an era with present day tech. The Callisto Protocol set far in the future (or far enough for when we can colonise Jupiter's moon). These two worlds are very different. You said it yourself: it's something "completely different." As such, it just seems like they're shoehorning in a connection because the game's funding depends on it. It's silly.
The rumor (true or not, I don’t actually know) is coming from the fact that the development studio behind Callisto Protocol was initially working on a game set in the PUBG universe. It said that on their website for quite a while.
However, they’ve been pretty quiet for a while, and now we have this game announcement. I personally hope it’s not connected. That seems silly and arbitrary, to me, for this game lol
Wow.....
I loved Dead Space, all of them tho I thought 1 and 2 were great and 3 kind of fell off a bit but was still scary and good. This tho, with nex-gen tech? Oh yea
I wonder if it will better then Dead Space I know this is a day one for me when it comes out Visceral was one of my favorite studios then they met EA and it went down hill from there.
Former Visceral GM hires another former Visceral GM.
Pubg universe? That’s disappointing. Dead space was brilliant though so kudos on that.
Thats a shame, thats the only person i really liked at EA. He always felt excited whenever he talked about Dead Space in his interviews and i liked how he connected with fans during Dead Space 2 development. I really wish him he best of luck.
Its really sad to hear especially after he said he was getting along very well wtih Amy Hennig.
I wish gamers would stop buying EA products. It seems the more brazen this company gets the higher their profit margin rises.
You're free....run Steve, run for your life.
Why? Did the game sell poorly?
He was breath of fresh air on EA last generation, betting on new and darker IP's like Dead Space and Dante's Inferno.
I really wish he goes somewhere where they give him the freedom for his creativity to flourish.