Publisher Electronic Arts and multimedia firm Starz today announced that they are working to transform three EA franchises into animated releases, with the first being a movie based on EA Redwood Shores' upcoming survival horror title Dead Space.

A prequel to the game itself, the Dead Space feature will take place after the comic book, explaining the circumstances that lead to the events of the title's creepy alien invasion. It is slated to debut alongside the game, which hits PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on October 31.

At present, Starz plans to air the movie via broadcast first, with a DVD release following. The animation will be handled by the company's Film Roman unit.

"With the video game, comic book and now animated movie, Dead Space has become a true multimedia brand," said game executive producer Glen Schofield. "Each of these elements delivers the story to new audiences and tells it from different aspects and perspectives."

Electronic Arts sends along the first Dead Space video development diary. The five minute long movie features the development team talking about their upcoming sci-fi survival horror game, and also shows in-game footage. EA recently announced that Dead Space (PC, PS3, X360) will ship October 31st.

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Dead Space (PC, PS3, X360), the third-person sci-fi survival horror game from EA Redwood Shores will be in stores October 31st, publisher Electronic Arts announced today. The game had previously carried a general third quarter release date.

To go along with news of the Halloween launch, EA sent out a new trailer for the game.

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Eurogamer is the latest site with a Dead Space preview, offering their thoughts on EA's action horror game.

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Originally slated for release on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, EA Redwood Shores has confirmed that its third-person survival horror shooter Dead Space will also appear on the PC. The studio is planning downloadable content for all three platforms.

Executive producer Glen Schofield also expressed an interest in turning Dead Space into a franchise, paving the way for sequels down the road. "I would definitely like to make future Dead Space games," Schofield told Eurogamer. "We've created a huge and rich back story and universe, so other games could easily be made."

Dead Space is tentatively scheduled for release in the third quarter of 2008, with a downloadable demo expected prior to launch.

Electronic Arts has released the first 24 screenshots from Dead Space (PS3, X360), the upcoming alien-tastic survival horror title from EA Redwood Shores.

Said to be inspired by such cinematic sci-fi horror masterpieces as Alien and Event Horizon, Dead Space arrives in fall 2008. For more on the game, check out the past trailer and known details.

Electronic Arts sends along the first Dead Space trailer, showing in-game footage from this space-based horror/action game in development at EA's Redwood Shores Studio. Dead Space is due out on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 next year.

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IGN and 1UP both have Dead Space previews, taking a first look at EA's space-based survival horror game.

Electronic Arts issued the first details of its recently revealed survival horror effort Dead Space.

Developed by EA Redwood Shores for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 and targeted for a fall 2008 release, the third-person game tells the tale of Isaac Clarke, a run-of-the-mill engineer sent to repair a deep space mining station. Of course, when Isaac gets there, he, as EA puts it, "awakes to a living nightmare" and finds "the ship's crew...ravaged by a vicious alien infestation."

Dead Space is said to be in part inspired by Paul W.S. Anderson's 1997 cinematic terror Event Horizon. Given EA's description today, it unfortunately appears the game will not mirror the film's use of Sam Neill (pictured left) as its main antagonist bad dude.

"This team has worked on some tremendous properties but we have always wanted to work on something that was darker and creepier," said executive producer Glen Schofield. "We are all such huge fans of the horror and sci-fi genres; we wanted to create the most terrifying game we could, and keep the player on the edge of his [or her] seat the entire time."

Ambitious and expansive publishing giant Electronic Arts is branching out into the Resident Evil and Silent Hill-dominated survival horror genre with the internally-developed Dead Space.

Details on the game, said to be inspired by Paul W.S. Anderson's 1997 cinematic terror Event Horizon, are slim, though it's doubtful the title will share the film's use of antagonist Sam Neill (pictured left).

With the game featured on the latest cover of Game Informer, more information is bound to pop up soon. In the mean time, all we have is the magazine's promise of "a renegade [development] team" setting its sights on "the most chilling sci-fi horror game the world has ever seen" and hints of a lone individual "in the far reaches of space" facing off against "a forgotten alien scourge."