Dead Space co-creator Glen Schofield has said he has “quite a few ideas” for what he wants to make next, and one of them is Dead Space 4. With EA’s pending $55 billion sale to an investor consortium for $55 billion, Schofield said he thinks “there’s an opportunity” to make it happen.
He told IGN, “I’m already making calls.”
“I went to [EA] recently and they’re like, ‘No, we’re not interested anymore,” he added. “I said, I can get back the leadership team. I need the models from EA Motive [who built the Dead Space remake in 2023] and I can save you 30 to 40 million dollars on the idea that I have. And, they’re like, ‘no.'”
Schofield did not return for Dead Space 2 or Dead Space 3, and he told VGC that he played “just a little bit” of the 2023 remake and enjoyed it. The developer also mentioned in the IGN interview that he thinks the 2023 remake did not make money, and he feels EA may look to dump the franchise.
“I am more optimistic [since the sale of EA], because somebody new could buy [the Dead Space IP],” he said, adding that he believes Dead Space could thrive if it were adapted into film and TV.
One of the ongoing theories is that EA might look to sell some of its franchises to help come up with money as it faces $20 billion of debt in the sale. The deal has not gone through yet and isn’t expected to until 2026, so it will be some time before anything happens most likely. BioWare is also said to be on the chopping block.
After leaving EA, Schofield joined Activision where he worked on a series of Call of Duty games at Sledgehammer Games. He then started Striking Distance Studios in 2019; the studio released the space-horror game The Callisto Protocol in 2022 and Schofield is now the director at Pinstripe Games.
Schofield also recently talked about how developers should embrace, not fear, artificial intelligence and that he is “immensely” worried about the future of Call of Duty under Microsoft’s ownership.
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