Glen Schofield is the CEO of Striking Distance Studios.
Glen Schofield is the CEO of Striking Distance Studios.
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Glen Schofield interview: How horror engineering comes to life in The Callisto Protocol

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 9 min

Glen Schofield is a master of horror engineering. He enjoys scaring the bejeezus out of us and has done a good job over the years.

His games include titles from familiar series like Legacy of Kain, Call of Duty, and The Lord of the Rings. But he’s known for being an artist who rose through the ranks and became executive producer on Dead Space, the 2008 sci-fi horror title from Electronic Arts. Reminiscent of Alien, it gave us a slow pace, marked by moments of sheer terror, with every scene engineered to creep us out.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.