Today, Electronic Arts announced that it’s new sci-fi survival horror game, Dead Space, will be released on… wait for it… October 31st of this year'just in time to scare the shit out of the kids and parlay some of that Halloween horror for its own benefit. It will be readied for both the Playstation3 and the Xbox 360 with a PC version to eventually rear its ugly head. If you’ve never heard of it, Dead Space is a third-person action thriller set in deep space:

Set in the far future, Earth's appetite for natural resources has become a major motivator for deep space exploration. Immense, privately-owned and operated mining ships called “planetcrackers” orbit planets and use sophisticated equipment to carve out entire city-sized chunks of rock, reducing them to component elements and raw ore. When communications go dead onboard the USG Ishimura, a famous planetcracker, systems engineer Isaac Clarke is sent in to fix the problem. Once onboard the vessel, Isaac discovers that the crew has unearthed an ancient and malevolent alien presence far beneath the planet's surface and brought it onboard. Weaponless, alone and terrified, this lone engineer is burdened with much more than simple survival'he must seal the alien horror back into the dark rock.