I will believe it when I see it, but there is a hopeful note sounded in Electronic Arts‘ latest publishing decision. I’m not much for the horror genre of games, but the decision by EA to publish a horror title from Grasshopper Manufacture/Q Entertainment is interesting, to say the least. That’s more than a little outside of EA’s usual paradigm.

The latest signings bode well for the company’s new “studio-focused philosophy,” which EA Partners general manager David DiMartini describes as “giving the world’s best independent developers access to EA’s global publishing resources, letting them focus on what they do best — making great games.“

Perhaps there’s hope for BioWare’s Dragon Age yet!