Hours before engineer Isaac Clarke begins his adventure on “The Sprawl” in Dead Space 2 a Necromorph outbreak occurs – but how did the events unfold? Players will witness the horror first-hand when Visceral Games^M, an Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) studio releases Dead Space Ignition, an all-new downloadable game that takes place on the Sprawl and challenges players to survive the initial Necromorph outbreak. Dead Space Ignition will be available in Fall 2010 on Xbox LIVE Marketplace and the PlayStation Network.

Electronic Arts is bringing back the Medal of Honor series in a direct challenge to the recently announced Call of Duty: Black Ops. The latest chapter in the long running series will launch on October 12, 2010 in North America and three days later in Europe. Read more »

EA released a service update to anyone still playing older EA sports games online that several of the servers will be shut down as of February 2, 2010. Even if this may be a large disappointment for these older games, freeing up server space will provide more accessibility to new releases which require online servers.

"Servers for the games listed below will be shut down on the indicated dates," said EA. "You may continue to play the games online up until these dates, but certain community programs may begin to close down prior to the shutdown dates."

Dead Space has gone gold and will be showing up on October 14th in the US and October 24th in Europe. In addition, our European brethren (and sisterethen) will get bnous Downloadable Content for free if ordered from Play.com Rumor has it that the bonus content is the Obsidian Suit. This suit features extra toughness and more inventory holding spots. Presumably the Obsidian Suit will also be available in the US and hopefully will be free. Stay tuned for further details!