EA announces 'Dead Space' remake to get early 2023 release

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If you've been waiting for the next-generation remake of EA's Dead Space, you're in luck, sort of. The developer has given an "arrival window" for the survival horror hit of "early 2023." The remake was first announced in July, but EA didn't share when it might be released. We know that the game was going to be "rebuilt from the ground up" by developer Motive. They are the team known for developing Star Wars: Squadrons. This Dead Space remake is expected to be available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and PC. 

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'NHL 22' introduces women's teams for the first time

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Ahead of the Winter Olympics, EA has finally introduced women's teams to its NHL games for the first time. You can pick one of 10 women's International Ice Hockey Federation national squads in NHL 22. You can pick teams from Canada, the Czech Republic (Czechia), Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Russia, Switzerland, and the USA.

NHL 22 also gets IIHF Men's World and Juniors teams. Aside from competing in IIHF World Championship tournaments, the Men's and Women's teams are playable in the Play Now, Online Versus, Threes Now, and Offline/Online Shootouts modes.

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Respawn plans to release 3 more 'Star Wars' games

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You can expect three more Star Wars games to come out of Respawn Entertainment. EA announced that the studio behind Titanfall and Apex Legends is working on a follow-up to its 2019 hit Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, but it isn't known if it'll be a direct sequel. A first-shooter game in the pipeline is overseen by a former Star Wars Battlefront producer. And then there's a strategy game produced by Respawn in the works with Bit Reactor leading its development. That new third-party studio is headed up by Greg Foertsch, who previously worked on the XCOM series.

EA's exclusive license to develop and publish Star Wars games will expire next year. And it looks like it wants to churn out as much as it can before that happens. 

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Discord can now show more detailed info on the EA games you're playing

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EA is making full use of Discord's Rich Presence, allowing you to link your Discord account with the EA app. Rich Presence is an API that developers can use to connect their games to Discord and make it easy to jump into them from the chat app. EA's doing this at a launcher level. You can connect your accounts by heading to the settings menu in the EA app. Click on "My Account" and then "Connected Accounts" to link them.

Your Discord contacts won't just see the game you're playing on the EA app when you link the two accounts together. It'll also show how long you've been playing and the specific game mode you're in at the moment. They'll also see if you're ready to group up to play something different. That last option might help you convince a friend to play a game with you that they haven't planned.

Source: Engadget