{"id":813808,"date":"2026-07-20T08:42:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T08:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/813808\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T08:42:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T08:42:17","slug":"dead-space-creator-glen-schofield-is-retiring-and-thats-a-real-shame-the-game-business-micro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/813808\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead Space creator Glen Schofield is retiring. And that’s a real shame \u2013 The Game Business Micro"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello, and welcome back to The Game Business Micro.<\/p>\n

This is our little chat about the previous week\u2019s big news stories. It\u2019s supposed to be nice and concise, and gives you all you need for that Monday morning meeting.<\/p>\n

Some weeks are chock full of stories to share and analyse. And other times, well, we need to get creative.<\/p>\n

Last week was in-between the two. There were lots of small stories, but not many big ones. However, there is one I wanted to chat about\u2026 the retirement of Call of Duty and Dead Space legend Glen Schofield. We spoke to Schofield last year about his struggle to find funding for his next project, and I felt compelled to discuss the subject\u2026 and why I wish Schofield will change his mind.<\/p>\n

Plus, Bethesda tries to convince us everything is fine after those Xbox lay-offs, there\u2019s a bunch of appointment news, and GameStop insists it isn\u2019t too bothered about PlayStation\u2019s abandoning the disc.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s dive in.<\/p>\n

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In Brief: Dead Space creator and Call of Duty veteran Glen Schofield is retiring from making video games. In a video posted on LinkedIn, the video game executive thanked fans of his games: \u201cYou supported me, you invited my team\u2019s games into your homes, you told me when I was good and you told me when I wasn\u2019t so good, but you made me better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello, and welcome back to The Game Business Micro. This is our little chat about the previous week\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-813808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}