Tag: Bioshock
News Ken Levine Spills the Beans on Irrational Games' Closure Post BioShock Infinite
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee
One of the best-written games ever made, BioShock Infinite was infamously a nightmare to work on. It required a herculean effort to complete "Project Icarus" from everyone at Irrational Games, including creative director and lead writer Ken Levine. A critical and commercial success by every metric, within a year of...
News Big Daddy Expectations Lowered as Netflix Douses BioShock Film Budget
Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?
Hopes for a BioShock movie worthy of the legendary gaming IP are underwater as news that Netflix has slashed the film's budget surfaces. Following a change in leadership at the firm, the project's budget has been cut to ribbons and will be "reconfigured" into something smaller and "more personal"...
News BioShock Developer 'Ramping Up' for Next Entry in Series
A decade on from BioShock Infinite
Cloud Chamber, the studio tasked with continuing the legendary BioShock series, is now "ramping up", with over 30 positions open at the 2K developer. Work on a BioShock successor has been shunted about for over a decade now, stopping and starting work at multiple development studios. On LinkedIn, senior cinematic...
News Netflix Nabs Rights to BioShock Movie Adaptation
A time to build and a time to destroy
Update: A press release expands on Netflix's BioShock announcement, confirming that the project will be produced by 2K and Vertigo Entertainment of The LEGO Movie fame. “Netflix is among the best and most forward-thinking storytellers in all of entertainment today,” said Take Two boss Strauss Zelnick. “We...
News New BioShock Set in a Fictional Antarctic City in the 1960s
Ice
Surely an announcement of the next BioShock is imminent? When it rains, it pours – and right now it’s practically sleeting Big Daddy drills. A fresh set of rumours recently pegged the game’s name as BioShock Isolation, and now word comes by way of Sacred Symbols’ Colin Moriarty that the release is set in a fictional Antarctic city in the...
News Would You Kindly Read This Rumour About BioShock Isolation?
In rapture
The video game industry is still in a post-Thanksgiving food coma, so indulge us while we dig into a rumour or two from sketchy sources. Perhaps the biggest emerging this holiday weekend pertains to BioShock Isolation, the apparent title of the fourth entry in 2K Games’ immersive sim series. Word comes way of Oops Leaks on Twitter [We...
News Upcoming BioShock Game Could Be Open World
Job listings provide some clues
Did you forget there's a new BioShock game on the way? We kinda did, to be honest. Yes, a brand new entry in the beloved shooter series is indeed coming, announced back in 2019 alongside the studio responsible, Cloud Chamber. Obviously, things have been very quiet on the project — publisher 2K stated the game would...
News BioShock: The Collection Can Now Be Bought Piecemeal on PS4
Budget pricing
There's a good chance you already own BioShock: The Collection through PlayStation Plus, but if you happened to have missed out on that excellent deal, you can now purchase each entry in the franchise on its own. No longer tied to a bundle, BioShock Remastered, BioShock 2 Remastered, and
News A New BioShock Has Been Announced, Almost Certainly a PS5 Game
Won't be out for a long while
BioShock is coming back. Publisher 2K Games has announced the return of Ken Levine's dystopian FPS franchise, but the creator won't be at the helm this time. Alongside the reveal of the next BioShock title, 2K has officially announced a new internal studio named Cloud Chamber. It's this team which will head up...
Report 2K's Working on a Top-Secret BioShock Title
Would you kindly be excited?
Uncovered as part of an excellent Kotaku report on Mafia III’s missteps, a new BioShock game is in development at a top-secret 2K Games studio next door to Hangar 13. According to the article – penned by the ever-reliable Jason Schreier – the Mafia maker was working on an espionage adventure, before it slipped into...
News Would You Kindly Watch Over 30 Minutes of BioShock on PS4?
All spliced up
Phwoar! These look good, don't they? 2K Games has released around ten minutes of footage from each game included in BioShock: The Collection, which is set to launch on the PlayStation 4 next month. And it's a reminder of just how unique these games were on the PlayStation 3. All three titles look amazing, but BioShock: Infinite's...
Gamescom 2016 Would You Kindly Watch This BioShock: The Collection Comparison?
Rapturous results
BioShock has, arguably, one of the greatest intros to a game ever. But it's about to get even better as part of BioShock: The Collection, the PlayStation 4 remaster of the PlayStation 3 classic. 2K Games has truncated the amazing opening, and uploaded a comparison with its new-gen version. The differences, as you may imagine, are...
News Finally, BioShock: The Collection Has Been Confirmed for PS4
All three games, all DLC in one package
It's about bloody time, eh? After months upon months of knowing fine well that it was coming, 2K Games has finally confirmed that BioShock: The Collection is bubbling up onto PlayStation 4. As expected, it'll include all three last-gen BioShock titles - BioShock, BioShock 2, and BioShock Infinite - along with...
News For the Love of Gaming Just Announce the BioShock PS4 Collection Already
Argh
BioShock: The Collection is happening - we've known that it's going to happen for months and months and months, yet 2K refuses to kick an official announcement out of the door and let us get on with dreary lives. This time, we go one step further into what is currently the worst kept secret in gaming, as thanks to Twitter user @lifelower's keen...
News BioShock: The Collection Is Now PS4's Worst Kept Secret
American ratings reveal rapturous return
The bathysphere including official information on BioShock: The Collection has yet to surface, but that's not stopped the North American ratings board ESRB from temporarily classifying the forthcoming PlayStation 4 compilation. While the info's since been pulled, this is the third time that the t
News Would You Kindly Feast Your Eyes on BioShock PS4's Pretty Box Art?
Back in the bathysphere
This is now the worst kept secret in games: BioShock: The Collection is coming to the PlayStation 4. After leaking on approximately eight ratings boards, a Taiwanese classification site has now decided to upl
News Will Red Dead Redemption 2 Be Announced at E3 2016?
BioShock? Borderlands? Take Two's going big
Take Two, the company in charge of 2K Games and Rockstar, has hinted that it will appear at E3 2016 in a "big way". Strauss Zelnick, the organisation's head honcho, teased the tidbit in the latest issue of MCV, stopping short of revealing which titles it will have on display. It currently has three games...
News BioShock: The Collection PS4 Rating Reveals Rapture Return
Under the sea
We asked 2K Games if it would kindly make a BioShock remaster for the PlayStation 4, and it looks like it's responded. As if it ever had a choice, eh? There were rumours eons ago that BioShock: The Collection would wrench its way to Sony's new-gen system, but they never materialised. Now, though, the Brazilian rati
Rumour BioShock Collection Steps into PS4's Bathysphere
Would you kindly
We've chalked this up as a rumour for now, but you can send us to Rapture if it doesn't eventually happen. South African retailer Raru – we know, we know – has listed The BioShock Collection for release on the PlayStation 4. There's no original artwork so the retailer could just be acting presumptuously, but this series is...
News BioShock's Swimming to a Smartphone Near You, But Not the PlayStation Vita
The Rapture awaits
Assuming that series creator Ken Levine’s cancelled Final Fantasy Tactics-esque vision for BioShock Vita wasn’t a big enough kick in the teeth, 2K Games has now announced that the series’ original entry will be riding Rapture’s bathysphere to the iPhone and iPad at some point in the near future. That sinking sensation that...
News Ken Levine Just Buried Our Hopes for BioShock Vita Deep Under the Ocean
Give us the game, and wipe away the debt
Remember when Ken Levine inadvertently popped up at the PS Vita's official reveal event? A now famous moment, the luminary sidled onstage and suggested a game in the BioShock universe was in development for the hot new handheld. Unfortunately, a recent statement on Twitter from the auteur has revealed that,...
Weirdness What Is BioShock Infinite's Logo Doing on Fox News?
Parallel universe
Fox News appears to be a big fan of Irrational Games’ politically charged first-person shooter BioShock Infinite, as the United States station adapted the PlayStation 3 adventure’s logo for a recent segment on immigration, dubbed ‘Defending the Homeland’. Seeing as the game itself deals with the very idea of xenophobia, the...
News 2K Marin to Be BioShock's Big Daddy Moving Forwards
Hold hands
Despite the disbandment of Irrational Games, the BioShock brand will go on bamboozling fans – this time under the watchful eye of 2K Marin. Those of you with strong memories may recall that the Californian studio was partly responsible for the divisive sequel BioShock 2, which this author actually preferred to the original. Not
News This Is What BioShock Could Look Like on the PS4 with Unreal Engine 4
Would you kindly port this?
The original BioShock was released seven years ago. That's an astonishing statistic that makes us feel old, but Rapture still holds up well regardless. However, what if the game was re-mastered using the additional grunt of the PlayStation 4? We certainly wouldn't mind re-visiting its underwater, dystopian society, and...
DLC Review Underwater Espionage in BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea - Episode Two
Wave goodbye
Videogame fans cried out in unison as industry legend Ken Levine announced that he’d be closing down beloved BioShock developer Irrational Games a few weeks ago. However, the office was not to be boarded up until he’d seen the third and final instalment of BioShock Infinite’s DLC out of the door. Now that the dust’s settled,...
News You Can Beat BioShock: Infinite's Second DLC without Killing a Single Splicer
Sneaky undersea shenanigans
Irrational Games may be shutting its doors, but head honcho Ken Levine is still on the campaign trail for BioShock: Infinite's final piece of downloadable content, Burial At Sea: Episode 2. Most recently, he revealed that the studio's second return to
News Cast Your Anticipation for BioShock Vita to the Bottom of the Ocean
Not a big shock
With the great rapture at BioShock Infinite developer Irrational Games now underway, you may be wondering what the future holds for the franchise’s infamous PlayStation Vita release. CVG had the gumption to ask 2K Games about the previously announced BioShock Vita, to which it was t
News Would You Kindly Be Careful of Spoilers in This BioShock Infinite DLC Trailer?
The Big Daddy
There’s a familiar face making a return as part of the second episode of BioShock Infinite’s big-budget ‘Burial at Sea’ expansion pack. Irrational Games has plunged to the depths of the ocean, and surfaced with a brand new three minute trailer showing an early cut-scene from the add-on. You may want to dip your head beneath a...
Game of the Year Bronze Trophy - BioShock Infinite
God only knows
Bold, brash, and brimming with more out-of-place Beach Boys records than a music store aimed at industrial rock fans [Bleurgh – Ed], it’s hardly surprising that BioShock Infinite soared to the summit of our Game of the Year poll speedier than protagonist Booker DeWitt when strapped into a bizarre lighthouse contraption. Irrational...
News Ken Levine Is In No Rush To Get BioShock Movie Made
Irrational Games gaffer Ken Levine has said that he is in no rush to get a BioShock movie made
A cinematic adaptation of the first-person adventure game has been on the cards for a while, but like so many other video game movies has struggled to get off the ground. We got very close to having it get made we had a deal in place and a director...
News BioShock on Vita Brand New Game
Ken Levine promises Vita's BioShock is not a port
Ken Levine let us know about BioShock on PS Vita during a brief appearance during Sony's E3 Press Conference, simply revealing that his studio is bringing the franchise to the system in one way or another. But we were still in the dark as to how exactly Irrational Games was going to be doing this...
News Bioshock Man Is Working On An "Original Title"
Ken Levine created Bioshock
But over the last few years he's been working on a new project we still don't know about. A business piece in the LA Times today fails to uncover any new details about Levine's next project, but does offer some interesting soundbytes. The interview with Take-Two man Strauss Zelnick reveals that Levine was...
News 28 Weeks Later Dude In The Picture For Bioshock Movie
Variety are reporting that Universal Pictures are in contact with director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo over a Bioshock movie adaptation
Gore Verbinski was originally pencilled in to direct the movie, but he's now moved into a producer role, preferring to direct a new Pirates Of The Caribbean movie. We actually think Bioshock would make an amazing movie...
