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Planet-Mining And Giant Parasites In "Dead Space"

Dead Space, a new game from Electronic Arts, brings parasitic "we want to kill you, kill you, kill you" aliens back into fashion just in time for next Halloween. In the far future, humans have depleted all of the natural resources on Earth, so private corporations begin sending out enormous ships called "Planetcrackers" that carve off enormous chunks of planets, and then mine them down to their bare essentials. Of course, as often happens in these games, this pisses off an "ancient and malevolent force" who decides to start unleashing hell. In space. More »

4:00 PM on Thu Feb 28 2008
By Kevin Kelly
2,201 views, 27 comments

Latest by Rogue Justice: It looks pretty good, but I hope it doesn't turn out to be cheesy. more »