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Company's Redwood Shores, California, headquarters is also affected, which includes Dead Space and Dante's Inferno developer Visceral Games. The studio has had a rough year and its COO and general manager being transferred to Activision's newly-opened San Francisco Bay Area studio in July. The September numbers from research company NPD Group also revealed that NPD Group also found that the exclusive shooter for Wii Dead Space Extraction had a disappointing debut.
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