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Play Mass Effect 2 and Dead Space 2 in your browser right now, no special plugin needed

If you fancy having your mind somewhat blown, try playing the Mass Effect 2 demo in your browser. Unlike most graphically impressive browser games, this isn’t a huge download running via a special plugin: all you need is Flash and Java, which you likely already do, and you’ll be playing in a few seconds. The only catch is you need a good connection – about 10Mb/s – and the demo won’t appear if you don’t.

The service is called Gaikai, and it’s live in 12 countries right now. The focus is on letting you into the game with no fuss or sign-up process, so it’s perfect for demos. At the end of the Mass Effect 2 or Dead Space 2 demos available now, you get a link to buy the full game.

If the Mass Effect 2 demo link doesn’t pop up when you visit the Gaikai site, try the Spore one – it has the same requirements but it’ll tell you what’s wrong if it doesn’t work.

Interview: Dead Space 2 disability campaigner Gareth Garratt

Gareth Garratt is curled up in his wheelchair, his body secured in a bucket seat while his hands clutch at the side of a desktop. His chin is pressed down onto a Toshiba mouse and he’s using that to control a virtual Marty McFly, clambering around the back of a police van. Gareth’s chin is the only part of his body that seems to have fine motor control, due to the cerebral palsy he was born with.

Gareth sprang to prominence earlier in the week after a frustrated series of posts on the Overclockers UK forum, as he struggled with EA’s Dead Space 2; through this, he’s managed to raise the profile of disabled gamers and persuade EA to patch in support to Dead Space 2. We’ve come to his family home in Leicester, UK to talk to him about the campaign, the difficulties he has with gaming, and the wide variety of support he’s received. Due to his palsy it’s very hard for Gareth to talk, so his answers are short and sometimes his mother and full-time carer, Jacqueline Garratt, has to interpret for me.

Dead Space 2 DLC on PC via 3.4 Kb save file

Turns out the Dead Space 2 DLC, that was supposedly console specific, is available to unlock in the PC build. EA had previously told The Escapist that the DLC would not make it to the PC version, but users are reporting a save file is all that’s required to unlock the extra suits and weapons.

Visceral hear disabled gamer, have started work on Dead Space 2 patch

Yesterday we mentioned the problems of a disabled gamer with Cerebral Palsy, who couldn’t play Dead Space 2 because of a lack of key mapping features. A petition was launched asking Visceral to add key mapping to the game. It got more than 20,000 signatures. Visceral have responded today to say that a PC patch is on the way to fix the problem.

Disabled gamer launches petition to enable button mapping in Dead Space 2

A disabled gamer has explained that he’s unable to play Dead Space 2 thanks to a lack of button mapping features in the game. Gareth Garratt has cerebral palsy, and uses his head to control a mouse or controller when playing games. The inability to map any movement controls to his mouse means that he can’t play Dead Space 2. A petition has been launched asking EA to add key mapping functionality to the game. It’s already received more than 22,000 signatures.

Dead Space 2: Severed won’t be coming to PC

EA have stated outright that the two-mission DLC pack ‘Severed’ for Dead Space 2 will not be available on PC.

In a simple statement to VG247, EA said: “Dead Space 2: Severed will not be available on the PC”

The pack contains two missions where players take on the roles of the protagonists from Dead Space: Extraction, in a story that runs parallel to the Dead Space 2 narrative.

EA offered no explanation as to why the DLC would be console exclusive.

Buy Dead Space 2, get Dragon Age 2 armour. Single tear rolls down dev’s face

EA are offering bonus content for Dragon Age 2 with new purchases of Dead Space 2. Those who pick up Dead Space 2 next Friday will find a code inside to unlock Isaac’s armour rig for their Dragon Age character. Read on for the details and a trailer.

Dead Space 2 launch trailer released

Dead Space 2 isn’t out until January 25th, but somehow the launch trailer is so exciting that it’s managed to travel back in time. You’ll find explosions, aliens and exploding aliens in the video, embedded below.

Dead Space trailer takes us into the Sprawl

Dead Space 2 is a few weeks away, but we still don’t know much about the huge space city in which it takes place. Fortunately, the latest Dead Space 2 gives us a tour of the haunted metropolis known as the Sprawl, which comes complete with suspicious bloodstains, flaming train cars and mad scrawls on the ceilings. And to think it used to be such a nice neighbourhood. The video is posted below.

Dead Space 2 trailer shows new Isaac, “his mind is not quite right”

The horrors of the first Dead Space game have changed Isaac. He has a face, for a start, and he’ll be doing a lot more talking in the horror sequel, which again pits the universe’s unluckiest engineer against the Necromorph menace. The latest video details how Isaac has changed as a character, and shows off some of the huge zero gravity zones. You’ll find the trailer below.

New Dead Space 2 multiplayer footage features evil babies

Dead Space did a great job of throwing its wrong-place-wrong-time hero, Isaac Clark, through a terrifying ordeal in which the silence and isolation of the infested space ship provided as many scares as the monsters themselves. Dead Space 2 is introducing a new kind of fear with its multiplayer mode. It’s less: “it’s quiet … too quiet”, and more: “get this freaking baby thing off my face!” Check out the new footage of the multiplayer mode, embedded below, and you’ll know what I mean.

New Dead Space 2 trailer is creepy as hell

The new Dead Space 2 trailer is bringing the scares. Don’t Visceral Games know that Halloween is over? Judging by the horrible rendition of an old nursery rhyme they’ve used as a soundtrack to this video, evidently not. The trailer is embedded below, prepare to be a little bit creeped out.