According to Gematsu, Eurogamer, and Venture Beat, one of my favorite games, "Dead Space," is getting a reboot.

Specifically, Jeff Grubb of Venture Beat says that EA is "rebooting the franchise with a full-blown remake."

The original "Dead Space" (available on Steam) was produced by Visceral, which closed in 2017 while EA was working on the unreleased "Star Wars Ragtag" project. The reboot is reportedly being handled by Motive, the EA studio that produced "Star Wars Squadrons" and co-developed "Star Wars Battlefront 2."

The original "Dead Space" helped make 2008 EA's best year ever. Even back then, there was a growing awareness that the mega-publisher was no longer interested in releasing exciting single-player games, and "Dead Space" was seen as EA's competition. It was an amazing, hilariously gory horror game in which you used a plasma cutter to cut up alien monsters. The zero-gravity sections seemed particularly wild at the time, and the in-world UI, which provided information to the player through holographic displays and lights on the protagonist's suit, is an example of technology that still deserves study.

Then, in 2008, EA released "Mirror's Edge," and for a time it was the champion of single-player game design. (And then, as far as I can tell, everyone began to resent the game for a variety of reasons.)

Currently, there is no concrete information about this rumored "Dead Space" reboot, just sources that it is happening. We would be surprised if all three publications are wrong, but we haven't heard anything ourselves.

We have reached out to EA for comment, but if indeed Dead Space is coming back, it looks like there will be no official announcement until EA Play Live on July 22.