Tag archive: BioShock

The North American launch of the PlayStation Vita is just a few short weeks away, so for those of you considering picking up Sony’s new uber-device, it's time to start thinking about what you will do with it. As you might expect from a device of its sort, the Vita will have all the bells and whistles of a modern handheld media device: It will stream Netflix, have access to the PlayStation Store and all that it offers including video and… Read More

The highlight reveal for many at last night's Spike Video Game Awards was the latest look at BioShock Infinite from Irrational Games. The minute-long montage set to the sounds of a female singer's take on the gospel hymn “Will the Circle Be Unbroken?” doesn't reveal much of anything in the way of new game content, but that doesn't mean it's not a well-cut trailer. The clip flashes through a series of… Read More

We might as well come to terms with the fact that we're probably not going to see a BioShock movie any time soon. Heck, even the game's creator isn't in a hurry to bring the undersea epic to the big screen. That's why a new, brief-but-impressive, fan-made trailer for a BioShock movie is such a frustrating tease: it hints at how cool a movie based on the hit game franchise could be. While this trailer offers a more subtle… Read More

It's been over a year since our last update on the BioShock movie, and the latest word seems to indicate that the project could be in limbo — but for good reason. Industry Gamers spoke to Irrational Games' creative director, Ken Levine, to get a status update on the adaptation, and learned that fans probably shouldn't hold their breath to see Big Daddy smash his way onto the big screen. “We got very close to having… Read More

In a move eerily reminiscent of Bioshock's Rapture building business tycoon Andrew Ryan, Billionaire PayPal founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel has donated $1.25 million to a project to design laissez-faire floating city-states. According to a Details magazine profile, Thiel is looking for the new frontier. He believes he has found that frontier in the Seasteading Institute, an initiative headed by former Google engineer Patri… Read More

Sony brought out the big guns for its E3 2011 press conference last month, revealing just about everything there is to know about the upcoming PS Vita other than its official release date. The best reveal came, however, when Irrational Games' Ken Levine took the stage and confirmed that a BioShock game would be coming to the handheld. That's all the detail he shared, but it was enough for the time being. Now Levine has spoken a… Read More

When gamers first stepped into the world of BioShock, they were immersed (pun intended) in the underwater city of Rapture following a bloody civil war that changed the citizens. The story of Rapture is over now, and the setting of BioShock Infinite is Columbia, a floating city in 1912 that was designed to promote American ideals. But besides just the geography of the city, there is another major difference between Columbia and Rapture. In… Read More

BioShock: Infinite may well be the most immediately appealing game being shown at E3 this year. It's all still hands-off at this point, but the bits that seemed so promising in previously shown glimpses of the game coalesce in the demo put together for the annual trade show, a section of the game that involves an exploding blimp, a giant clockwork raven-thing and a movie marquee that reads Revenge of the Jedi. Just to catch you up on what… Read More

Strauss Zelnick is taking the reins of Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption, and BioShock game studio Take-Two Interactive as CEO Ben Feder steps down to travel with his family in Asia for “an extended period.” “As a result of the team’s efforts, [Take-Two] today is in the strongest financial and operational condition in its history,” Feder said, in a statement. “Now that the company is in a position of… Read More

We might have to wait a few months… ok, years, before we actually get our hands on the next BioShock game, but that isn’t stopping Irrational Games from tickling your fancy and building the anticipation. Announced just last month, the makers of the original BioShock are returning to the property (2K Marin developed BioShock 2) to bring us a prequel of sorts. The exact relationship between the floating city of Columbia in 1912, and Andrew… Read More

Consider this twice the news for the price of one, but consider both pieces of it as rumors for the moment. According to Showbizspy.com, a Red Dead Redemption movie is in development. And on top of that, Brad Pitt is up for the role of the game’s protagonist, John Marston. Despite the fact that there has not been an official announcement, it is not surprising to hear that a movie for Red Dead Redemption is in development. The game has sold 5… Read More

We knew that Irrational was working on a new game, and we knew that it would be announced this week, but the debut of BioShock: Infinite, due out at the end of 2012, still caught us by surprise. BioShock: Infinite is a prequel to the games in Rapture. Set in the floating city of Columbia in 1912, the graphical focus seems to be on the early days of American expansionism.  You play as a Booker DeWitt, a disgraced Pinkerton Detective Agency… Read More

Let the guessing begin! Irrational games, the development house behind BioShock, Tribes and System Shock 2- are planning a press conference for Thursday August 12, where they will debut the trailer for their newest, unknown game. The speculation as to what that game is, has been steadily building for months. Since the release of BioShock in 2007, no word has leaked as to what Irrational would be developing next (BioShock 2 was developed by 2K… Read More

When it was first announced that a BioShock movie was in the works, there was a lot of excitement. The game itself had an incredible setting, a memorable story, and a tone that made it seem like it could finally be that one movie that breaks through, and gives fans of the genre a movie based on a video game that doesn’t suck horribly. When it was announced that Gore Verbinski had left the fourth installment of Pirates of the Caribbean for… Read More

2K Games has officially thrown the doors open on BioShock 2, the company's followup to the very popular (and 2007 “Game of the Year”) BioShock. Bioshock 2 features both single-player and multiplayer modes and aims to bring new levels of addiction—and “artistic achievement”—to the first-person shooter genre. “BioShock represented a watershed moment in the gaming industry when it illustrated that… Read More