The person who will helm the remake of Isaac Clarke’s first adventure: Dead Space Remake has moved from Ubisoft to Electronic Arts.

If you look at the LinkedIn of Eric Baptizat, you’ll see that he is the “game director on Dead Space,” and it’s the remake, as the original launched more than a dozen years ago. Previously, there were rumours about him being the director of the project when he moved from Ubisoft to Electronic Arts Motive… who happens to develop the remake.

Baptizat spent sixteen years at Ubisoft, which is no mean feat. He was the lead game designer of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag and Unity and Origins. He was the director of Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla before departing. So he did have a lot of work done at the French company, primarily in successful games.

The staff of the remake also includes Roman Campos-Oriola (the creative director, he worked on For Honor; yes, another ex-Ubisoft member!), Philippe Ducharme (the senior producer, previously worked on Watch Dogs: Legion; we see a trend forming here…), Michael Yazijian (the art director, who served the same role on Dead Space 2), and Dino Ignacio (the UI designer on all three of the original games; he is now a consultant). Several ex-BioWare staff are confirmed to be working on the remake.

“The sci-fi classic survival horror game, Dead Space, will be returning as a remake wholly rebuilt from the ground up. Dead Space is being developed exclusively for next-generation consoles and PC, raising the level of horror and immersion to unprecedented heights for the franchise through stunning visuals, audio, and controls powered by the Frostbite game engine. Fans will experience an improved story, characters, gameplay mechanics, and more as they fight to survive a living nightmare aboard the desolate mining starship, the USG Ishimura, all while uncovering the dreadful mystery of what happened to the slaughtered crew and ship.

In Dead Space, Isaac Clarke is an everyman engineer on a mission to repair a vast, sprawling starship, the USG Ishimura, only to discover something has gone wrong. The ship’s crew has been slaughtered and infected by some alien scourge… and Isaac’s beloved partner, Nicole, is lost somewhere on board. Now Isaac is alone with only his tools and engineering skills as he attempts to uncover the nightmarish mystery of what happened aboard the Ishimura. Trapped with hostile creatures called “necromorphs,” Isaac faces a battle for survival, not only against the escalating terrors of the ship, but his crumbling sanity,” Electronic Arts wrote about the game after the EA Play Live reveal.

Dead Space’s remake is possibly launching in 2023 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC.

Source: PCGamer