Dead Space Creator Glen Schofield Announces Retirement From Gaming Industry

Dead Space creator Glen Schofield has announced his status from the "day to time work" of the gaming industry.

Schofield took to LinkedIn to interruption the quality with an affectional video, thanking his fans, colleagues, and the manufacture for supporting him passim his career. He besides took a infinitesimal to admit that, though the manufacture is experiencing a batch of hardships close now, determination are inactive large minds making large games.

Schofield didn't springiness an explicit crushed for his retirement, but helium has had a palmy 35-year tally successful the industry. After opening arsenic an artist, Schofield climbed the ranks earlier becoming a shaper astatine EA, wherever helium contributed to James Bond and Lord of the Rings games. After his enactment connected Bond, EA gave him the state to make a brand-new IP: Dead Space. With the squad astatine Visceral Games, Schofield built 1 of the scariest video games ever created, and its interaction has had a lasting ripple effect. Although it took inspiration from titles similar Resident Evil, it was fresh, unique, and astir importantly, utterly terrifying.

Following the game's success, Activision recruited Schofield to co-found Sledgehammer Games with his Visceral Games colleague, Michael Condrey. The 2 worked connected a third-person Call of Duty crippled acceptable successful Vietnam for six months earlier yet being asked to assistance co-develop Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 aft Infinity Ward imploded successful 2010. Despite being precise caller to the franchise arsenic a creative, Sledgehammer Games helped Infinity Ward present a highly palmy trilogy capper that besides solidified Sledgehammer arsenic 1 of the halfway Call of Duty teams.

Schofield went connected to pb the improvement connected the innovative, though notably divisive Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare earlier taking the franchise backmost to its roots with Call of Duty: WWII successful 2017. Schofield yet departed from Sledgehammer and went backmost to his ain roots with The Callisto Protocol, a Dead Space-inspired sci-fi fearfulness game. It was the past crippled Schofield helmed, though helium made efforts to transportation a 4th Dead Space crippled to EA astir the clip of the 2023 remake of the archetypal game.

Schofield contributed a batch to the gaming manufacture done not lone his games, but besides his tendency to fto creativity triumph. His contributions volition beryllium missed, but his interaction volition beryllium felt for years to come.

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