One of EA's top executives says the website VideoGamer fabricated news yesterday when they reported that Dead Space 4 was no more.

The VideoGamer report, which cited an anonymous source, said that "EA has ceased development on Dead Space 4 and effectively axed the series following lower than anticipated sales of Dead Space 3."

According to the VideoGamer story, the studio Visceral Montreal (Army of Two) had been prototyping Dead Space 4 when EA came in and cancelled it. VideoGamer also reported that EA pushed the SF-based Visceral Games to make Dead Space 3 "feel more like BioWare's Mass Effect."


Last month, EA laid off a number of Visceral employees and shut down Visceral Montreal.


Multiple EA and Visceral employees denied the VideoGamer rumor yesterday, but not before a number of websites picked up on it, including the trade site GamesIndustry.biz, where EA's Chief Operating Officer Peter Moore took to the comments, calling it a lie:


(EA confirmed to Kotaku that the comments are really by Moore.)

Moore followed up:


We reached out to VideoGamer this morning, but they declined to comment.

Update: VideoGamer tells us they'll be commenting on their own site later today.

Update 2: VideoGamer has released a statement on their website detailing the steps they took to reach out to EA's UK PR. They stand by their story: