There’s a certain tension in the air here at Attitude Towers. The normally carefree (or slightly bizarre in the case of Danny_D) banter has been replaced by hushed, worried whispers.

You see, there are Kittens in the Tower today. This generally wouldn’t be any cause for concern – kittens are cute right?

But these kittens have a penchant for shooting, and routinely sharpen their claws – step forward the Kamikaze Kittens.

It’s fiscal reports time again – hurrah! Although seemingly written in an alien language, these reports often give us a glimpse in to what we gamers have in store for us over the course of the next fiscal year.

So EA, you claim to be the PS3’s number one publisher, but can you back it up?

GameInformer magazine have revealed some interesting snippets about the sequel to the last year’s pant-wetting Dead Space.

Taking place in larger environments, Issac, who this time out is more assertive and a veteran of the whole people-eating alien problem, will take the fight to the Necromorphs on Sprawl, a space station built by one of Saturn’s moon shards.

On his second outing, Isaac Clarke will also speak, making him more a character in the universe rather than a laconic persona who just likes cutting up extraterrestrials.

We’ve debated about it in the past, but it seems the perennial All Games Need Multiplayer hokum just won’t die. Next up to the online plate would appear to be the recently announced Dead Space 2.

Found lurking in the darkest corners of LinkedIn, EA have advertised an open position at Redwood City, CA – the location of Visceral Studios – for the new Dead Space game. The publisher are quoted as “Seeking a highly motivated Senior Online Level Designer for the Dead Space franchise on Xbox360 and PS3. This is a major opportunity to contribute creatively to an exciting new franchise.”

We’re not going to pretend that the following is anything of a shock, but when new games get the official nod from on high, we’re duty bound to report it as breaking news.

So, eh … yeah, EA have confirmed that a sequel to one of the best new IPs of last year, Dead Space, is officially in the works. But you already knew that, right?

We’ve known that a sequel to the survival horror Dead Space was forthcoming and that it would only be a matter of time before an announcement is made. We believe the ball has officially begun rolling with a new Twitter account teasing a single picture that makes practically no sense at all.

We’ve never liked EA Redshore Studios.

Don’t get us wrong, we really enjoyed Dead Space (one of us more than others) and we’re keen to see how Dante’s Inferno pans out but, and we freely admit this is a terribly weak excuse, the studio’s name has always annoyed us.

Reflecting their “intense action-oriented” titles, the California based studio will now be known as “Visceral Games”.

EA and Starz Media collaborate once again with a new full-length animated movie based on the upcoming Dante’s Inferno game.

Dead Space: Downfall was decidedly average as a movie but, with leading anime houses around the world each taking on a layer of hell for Dante’s outing, we’re hoping this one doesn’t get damned by the critics.

It was the 10th BAFTA Video Games Awards in London yesterday night, and we have for you all the winners.

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was the big winner, taking home three awards including the GAME Award of 2008. Dead Space was the only other game to take more than one award grabbing two.

In an interview at Gamesindustry.biz, general manager of EA Redwood Shores Glen Schofield, more or less confirmed the existence of Dead Space 2. More specifically, he stated…

According to EA CEO John Ricitello, the company is happy with it’s improved metacritic scores. The number of games with scores of over 80 jumped from 7 last year to a mighty 17 this year.

But is that good enough for the lofty expectations of EA? No, nein, nacht, non and nei. They want things to be even better in the new year, and have some plans as to how to make that dream a reality.

Click through for the details.

EA announced earlier today that the first batch of Dead Space DLC was on the way. The Xbox 360 would see their downloadable content this Thursday (13th November), whilst the PS3 would wait one extra week.

An extra week is no big deal when you’re getting a great deal of extra content to purchase, right?

Except it appears Sony’s black monolith isn’t getting the better part of the available downloads…

Open?

That’s the word that will become embedded in your consciousness when you’re done with Dead Space. That ironic hologram, asking you every single time you are about to open a door. It knows you’re scared and it’s using that fear of yours to its own advantage…

EA talk sequels and just when we’re likely to see Isaac Clarke and Faith returning for more.

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According to what Frank Gibeau, President of EA and Glenn Schofield, General Manager of EA Redwood Shores stated in their interview to Variety, EA’s latest IPs will be followed by sequels. More specifically, the sequels of Bad Company and Army of Two are on the way!

“Bad Company has come out and done very well. “Army of Two sold very well. We’ve got sequel ideas planned for those”, stated Gibeau.