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Wednesday, Dec 31
Show Me The Games You Got In 2008 & I'll Show You Mine [Tell Us Dammit]
Hit the jump for my own personal list and leave your own 2008 haul in the comments. Advance Wars: Days of Ruin (DS)Arcana Heart (PS2)Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts (Xbox 360)BioShock (Xbox 360)Blastworks (Wii)Braid (Xbox 360)Call of Duty 4 (Xbox 360)Castlevania Judgment (Wii)Castle...
A Year in Review: The Top Features and Reporting Of 2008 [Year In Review 2008]
The top ten features of 2008 includes an ecclectic mix of topics which touch on everything from the sorts of desks developers keep, to dissecting and disproving the Madden curse, to a highbrow discussion of objectivism in BioShock with Ken Levine and the president of the Ayn Rand Institu...
Tuesday, Dec 30
Who's Asking If Games Are Art Now? [Deep Thoughts]
Lanchester, writing in a way that eases the typical London Review of Books reader into the scary world of video games, focuses on a number of bigger, more mainstream games to illustrate his observations. First up, BioShock. With its thread of objectivist philosophy weaving through the pl...
Thursday, Dec 25
Steam Puts Everything On Sale
Needless to say, if you bought anything off of Steam in the past month, you're probably feeling pretty silly right about now. Don't let it happen again. The Steam Holiday Sale ends January 2nd. The Steam Holiday Sale [Steam - Thanks Tim!]
Thursday, Dec 18
Let Me Teach You The Secret Of Cricket [Night Note]
Square Enix Will Permit You To See Kingdom Hearts PSP Now N.A. Resident Evil 5 Demo Coming "Early 2009" Fable II DLC Delayed, Christmas Canceled BioShock Doll Collectors: Get Your Little Sisters Now FACT: Square-Enix Does Not Care What You Think
Wednesday, Dec 17
BioShock Doll Collectors: Get Your Little Sisters Now
2K Games has listened to its legions of fans demanding little ceramic ladies to pair with their Big Daddy collectibles. BioShock's Little Sister has her own unarticulated action figure. And now you can buy it. Little Sister Figurine [Take-Two Store]
Friday, Dec 12
BioShock's Big Daddy Figure Says "Hey, Little Sister"
The Big Daddy inaction figure that 2K released with the limited edition of BioShock last year was missing something important. No, not structural integrity. It was missing the Tango to his Cash, a Little Sister. LITTLE SISTER FIGURINES NOW PROTECTED BY BIG DADDIES [The Cult of Rapture]
Thursday, Dec 11
And The Best-Selling PC Games For November Were...
And would you look at that. Lich King at #1. Lich King at #2. Then Call of Duty, then Spore. All as expected. As for Fallout 3 only managing to come in at #5, well, I know there are Steam and Direct2Drive sales to take into account, but you can see there that the bulk of those 4.7 million copies sold were o...
Thursday, Dec 4
Ken Levine Wishes PC Gaming Was "More Successful"
I'm a real believer in industrial Darwinism. It's hard for an industry to make a mistake because the market tends to be self-correcting...but I wish the industry could find a way to make PC gaming more broadly successful. There are so many challenges for PC gaming—the complications from syste...
Sunday, Nov 30
Awesome Video Game Tees for the Holidays
If you only got $20, or the gamer on your gift list already has everything, or if you want to give a less-than-serious gamer friend something cool without obligating them to 420 hours of Resistance 2, Examiner.com dug up 10 great game-themed T-shirts.
Thursday, Nov 27
Amazon's Full Black Friday Deal List: Your Trousers Will Tremble
PlayStation 2 PlayStation 3 PlayStation Portable Xbox 360 BioShock - $19.95 (Reg. $29.99) The Orange Box - $19.95 (Reg. $19.9) BioShock - $9.95 (Reg. $19.99) PlayStation 2 PlayStation 3 PlayStation 3 HDMI Cable - $14.95 (Reg. $29.99) PlayStation Portable Xbox 360
The Great Black Friday 2008 Round-Up
BioShock (Xbox 360) - $19.99 Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway (Xbox 360/PS3) - $19.99 Cooking Mama (DS) - $9.99 Dead Rising (Xbox 360) - $9.99 Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (PSP) - $9.99 The Orange Box (Xbox 360) - $19.99 World of Warcraft Battlechest (PC) - $14.99
Monday, Nov 24
So, How Much Space Do Your 360 Games Installs Take Up?
Army of Two (5.7 GB) BioShock (6.1 GB) — Point Prometheus level 35 seconds (DVD) vs 24.5 seconds (HDD) Grand Theft Auto IV (6.7 GB) — decreases initial load time from 46.5 to 33 seconds GUN (3.6 GB) Two Worlds (3.4 GB) Xbox Live Arcade Compilation Disc (5.9 GB) Xbox Live Arcade Unplugged Vol.1 (3.4 GB)
Wednesday, Nov 19
The PlayStation 3 Gift Guide
BioShock Last year's Xbox 360 epic is this year's PlayStation 3 epic as 2K's tale decadence, delirium, and death under the sea makes the leap to Sony's console. The PS3 version of the game adds a new difficulty mode to the title, along with console-exclusive downloadable content that'll b...
Tuesday, Nov 18
The Xbox 360 Gift Guide
The Orange Box A gift that keeps on giving even more than a year after its release, and well more than three years since Half-Life 2 for the original Xbox. You get it, the FPS multiplayer Team Fortress 2, and Portal. All three of these titles are still strongly relevant to the ongoing conversat...
Saturday, Nov 15
Kotaku Originals: Buried Alive ... [Original]
Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts Review: Aw, Nuts Composing The Soundtrack To Blizzard's World Is Take-Two Thinking of Subscription-Based GTA and BioShock? Nintendo Eyes User Generated Content, Says "Entertainment Is A Two-Way Street"
Thursday, Nov 13
Are You Going to Play World At War [Day Note]
GTA DLC and Chinatown Wars May Be Delayed The Other East Coast Lich King Launch Frankenreview: Gears Of War 2 Is Take-Two Thinking of Subscription-Based GTA and BioShock? Nintendo Eyes User Generated Content, Says "Entertainment Is A Two-Way Street"
Is Take-Two Thinking of Subscription-Based GTA and BioShock? [Take-Two]
During today's talk at the BMO Capital Market's conference, Take-Two head honcho Strauss Zelnick seemed very up on the idea of downloadable content, micro-transactions and even... subscriptions. Please tell me he's not thinking of a subscription-based Grand Theft Auto or BioShock. Wors...
Wednesday, Nov 12
PC Sales Charts
The NPD sales charts are traditionally a little...sketchy when it comes to PC sales. But for the week ending November 1, they look right on the money, with Fallout 3 taking not just the top spot, but 3rd and 9th spot as well with the two collectors editions. With the game still charting well on both...
Saturday, Nov 8
Kotaku Originals: Out of Nothing at All [Originals]
BioShock DLC Adds A Lot But Loses Something Important Brash Hit By Lay Offs, Kills Game Sony Australia Are Just Giving PS3 Games Away Saints Row 2: Two Million Served (Well, Shipped) Obama Leads McCain in Xbox 360 Pwn the Vote Poll Unboxing Table Top Halo
Friday, Nov 7
BioShock DLC Adds A Lot But Loses Something Important
Something about the the BioShock "Challenge Room" downloadable content seems wrong to me. It’s not the fact that it’s DLC. I appreciate 2K trying to get more mileage out of the blockbuster to distract us from the fact that they haven’t given us BioShock 2 yet. And it’s not exactly the fact that...
Monday, Nov 3
PC Sales Charts (Now With Added Direct2Drive) [Sales Charts]
1. Left 4 Dead (pre-sale) 2. Fallout 3 3. Far Cry 2 4. CS: Source 5. Vampire: Bloodlines 6. Team Fortress 2 7. Counter-Strike 8. Call of Duty 4 9. The Orange Box 10. X3 1. Fallout 3 2. Red Alert 3 3. Far Cry 2 4. Hinterland 5. Dead Space 6. Spore 7. BioShock 8. Warhammer Online 9. Sims 2 10. Vampire: Bloodlines
PS3 BioShock Challenge Rooms Priced And Dated
2K games never said it would be free and they never said it wouldn't (until now). The problem I have is that they selling a game that is over a year old for full price with an optional 10 dollar DLC. I call shenanigans, now it just ...
Wednesday, Oct 29
Sony Says "Nothing Is Ever Exclusive" [Grand Theft Auto IV]
Sony Computer Entertainment UK director Ray Maguire gives fans of Grand Theft Auto IV, Fallout 3 and Tomb Raider: Underworld hope for the future of "exclusive" downloadable content on the PlayStation 3 platform. Each has promised DLC only for Microsoft's Xbox 360, but Maguire tells Vid...
Thursday, Oct 23
You'll Never Guess What Platforms BioShock 2 Is "Destined For" [Bioshock 2]
While the first BioShock was a timed Microsoft exclusive, appearing on 360 and PC looong before it did on PS3, for the game's sequel, all bets are off. Confirming this for anyone who couldn't already figure it out for themselves today has been 2K, who told GameSpot that "BioShock 2 is destin...
Wednesday, Oct 22
Bioshock 2: BioShock 2 Trailer, Now In Shimmering High Definition
It was kind of an anti-climax to see the first BioShock trailer as a piece of user-generated ss-shaky cam Ruined. ... Lips Soundtrack, Gameplay Details, Platform Plans Revealed · Star Wars: The Old Republic â “ What We Know So Far ...
The Xbox 360 Deal You Should Jump On. Now. [Deals]
No time for pleasantries. Electronics retailer Frys has two amazing Xbox 360 bundles still in stock — a third is already sold out — at just $349.99. Both feature five games, one with Lego Indiana Jones, Kung Fu Panda, Saint's Row 2, BioShock and Pure, the other with Lego Indiana Jones, Kung Fu P...
Sunday, Oct 19
The Week in Games: Fable-ulous
Dead Space (PC) NBA 2K9 (PC) NHL 09 (PC, PS2) Bully: Scholarship Edition (PC) Deer Hunter Tournament (PC) Galactic Bowling (PC) Littlest Pet Shop (PC) Far Cry 2 (PC, PS3, 360) BioShock (PS3) Baseball Mogul 2009 (PC) Brain Training for Dummies (PC) Petz: Horsez 2008 (PC)
Friday, Oct 17
PS3 Bioshock DLC Coming Next Month
Even as the PS3 version of Bioshock lumbers center stage. 2K games has announced a release date for the first exclusive PS3 DLC. The DLC will be available via PSN on November 20th, although no pricing has yet been released. BioShock PS3 Challenge Rooms out November 20 [Video Gamer]
Thursday, Oct 16
Is This The First BioShock 2 Trailer?
The freshly-released PS3 version of BioShock has a little treat tucked away within; it (seemingly) includes the first trailer for BioShock 2. Watch it above (though be warned, it's in s-s-s-s-s-hhhaky cam). If legit, the game's called BioShock 2: Sea Of Dreams, and if we were forced to giv...
Monday, Sep 29
BioShock For PS3 Goes Gold, Demo Hits Thursday
Heads up, kids. According to official word from 2K Games, the PlayStation 3 port of BioShock has "gone gold," with a shiny master disc containing final code of the game probably being transported by aluminum brief case from 2K Marin to the manufacturing plant right now. It's likely handcuf...
Thursday, Sep 25
BioShock PS3 Has BioShock Xbox 360 Ending
That means that the PS3 version will have the same final hours that the Xbox 360 does. Of course, developer 2K Marin is adding extra features to BioShock PS3, but the grist of the game is still the same. Mmmm grist. ‘BioShock’ PS3 Developers Chose Not To Improve Game’s Faulty Ending [Multiplay...
Wednesday, Sep 17
Kojima Needs "Clamps", BioShock "Easy As Hell"
BioShock was easy as Hell, I don't care what anybody says. That's what people want. They want to play through it. They want to die once or twice. It's like an interactive movie, sort of. Gamers have lost their will to continually drill down on something. It's also the fault of the developers. If you m...
Saturday, Sep 13
Kotaku Originals: World of Sporelore
FIFA 09 Demo Hits PSNLoads Of People Downloaded The Force Unleashed Demo Frankenreview: Spore NC Europe, NC Austin and ArenaNet Transform to Become NC West Video Games Live Volume One ImpressionsNew BioShock P33 Trailer Infogrames And Namco Bandai's Europe Joint Venture
Friday, Sep 12
PS3 BioShock Demo Out On October 2
What, PS3 owners, you never played BioShock on 360 or PC? Not even for a minute? How the hell are you meant to make an informed purchasing decision without some hands-on time with the game and? How the hell indeed. You're getting a demo, and you're getting it soon, with 2K announcing that one w...
Wednesday, Sep 10
Threatening Emails vs. Ken Levine's Spidey Sense
The PC version of BioShock featured some nasty, nasty SecuROM copy protection. Almost a year later, all BioShock PC DRM was finally gone — hey, what's a year, right? A fart in the space time continuum! BioShock designer Ken Levine tells magazine PC Zone:
BioShock PS3 Versus BioShock 360
Sure it takes a little while to get started and eats up a lot of drive space, but other than that, the PlayStation 3 version of BioShock 3 looks amazingly similiar to the Xbox 360 version, as seen in this side by side comparision Game Videos slapped together. A few discrepancies here and there...
PS3 BioShock Features "Over Ten Minute" Mandatory Install
Sure, that PS3 BioShock trailer looks nice and all, but here's something that's not as nice. The game features a 5GB mandatory install. It takes a little over ten minutes. Word of something like this first came back in July when the BBFC rated the title as having an install of "around 5 or 6 minut...
Tuesday, Sep 9
New BioShock P33 Trailer
2K just passed this new BioShock PS3 trailer along. Nothing new or terribly exciting here for anyone who owns a 360 or PC, but hey, not everyone owns a 360 or PC.
Friday, Sep 5
BioShock: The Postmortem
If there's an over-arching theme of our development, it's that we, like many other developers, believe that ultimate success in this industry comes from iteration. You have to build, evaluate (and have others evaluate) and be prepared to throw things away and rebuild.
Sunday, Aug 24
Future Metal Gear Involvement, Expresses Slight Cutscene Regret
Gameplay is always fundamental. Halo, BioShock — I see their approach and I think they are brilliant in some ways, but I still feel they still lack a kind of a deeper storyline or the expression of the feelings of the characters. I do have plans of how I should approach this and get around it. In MG...
Tuesday, Aug 12
Eidos Announce ANOTHER Batman Game
With a story written by Paul Dini, and art by the team at Wildstorm comics, the game will be set exclusively in and around Arkham Asylum, which has been taken over by the Joker. The asylum will be a contained, persistent location, making the game feel more like Riddick or BioShock than other m...
Saturday, Aug 9
Games and Learning: Opening Gateways?
I'd be curious to know how many people actually went out and tackled Ayn Rand after playing BioShock; I'm also a little skittish about the idea of heavy handed philosophy and the like making a strong appearance (one Xenosaga series was enough, thank you). Fyfe's opinions aren't new by any m...
Thursday, Aug 7
The BioShock PS3 Trailer
While game site IGN says the PS3 version of BioShock will have "cleaner high resolution textures for every facet of the game", we can't really see difference from it and the Xbox 360/PC versions. Then again, maybe it's one of those you gotta play it things or one of those you gotta run them sid...
BioShock PS3 Looks Better, Plays Harder (Say IGN)
That's one of the main gameplay additions covered, but IGN are also reporting that that the PS3 version features improved visuals, with "cleaner high resolution textures for every facet of the game". They also say the water effects look "much slicker" than what we'll assume is the 360 ver...
Wednesday, Aug 6
BioShock Movie Staying Faithul To Source, Won't Star Kate Hudson
PHEW. Speaking with VG247 at the Develop conference in Brighton (fun fact: I used to live in neighbouring Seaford), BioShock creator Ken Levine has told everyone to relax. The upcoming BioShock movie project is staying faithful to the source:
You Will Never, Ever Game On This 40-Foot Rig (With 27 HD Monitors)
One of our readers - who would prefer to remain nameless - installs PC rigs for a living. He helped install this one, in a government office, then proceeded to do what anyone confronted by twenty-seven 67" HD monitors would do - he played a ton of BioShock and WoW on it. For reference, 27 panels e...
Tuesday, Aug 5
Daddy, Is There A LittleBigPlanet Movie? [Night Note]
Second Halo Movie Script Lives Long Enough To Generate Concept Art Xbox Live Phishing Scam Why 2K Boston Aren't Making BioShock 2 Final Fantasy XIII Xbox 360 Asia Version Announced! FFXIII Comes To Men's Formal Wear Xbox Avatars Can't Be Killed, Limited To E Rated Titles Only
Why 2K Boston Aren't Making BioShock 2
2K Boston, with help from 2K Australia, made BioShock. And what a great game it was. But they're not making BioShock 2. Somebody else is. Why somebody else and not 2K Boston? Ken Levine (pictured, emerging from the ruins of Rapture clutching the last remaining...Coke Zero!) explains:
Monday, Aug 4
More On Bioshock's PS3-Specific Trophies
It seems that BioShock PS3 designer Tynan Wales' last post on the official PlayStation Blog left gamers with the impression that all of the achievements for the PS3 version would simply be the ones from the 360 version. Not so, says Tynan, following up said post with another, revealing two...
Friday, Aug 1
BioShock PS3 Box Art Gets A Do-Over
Courtesy of 2K, here's a look at the final, official box art for the PS3 version of BioShock. It's not a major change, since it's still a dark, underwater shot of a Big Daddy, but the addition of a Little Sister should help the version stand apart from its 360/PC brothers. And yes, we know, the Ho...
Thursday, Jul 3
Behind the WGA Nominees: Where Were Portal, BioShock?
Though Portal and BioShock were largely the critical favorites among last year's crop of titles, earning numerous industry awards apiece, the Writer's Guild of America decided to bestow its newly-created Videogame Writing Award on Dead Head Fred. Nothing against that title, but many...
Thursday, Jun 19
BioShock PC's DRM: Gone
Yup. You asked for it (last year), and now, it's gone! 2K's Elizabeth Tobey has announced on the game's official boards that, as of right now, "all activation restrictions, including install limits, have been removed from BioShock PC". And not only gone, but gone automatically on 2K's end...
Thursday, May 29
Opinion: On BioShock: Don't Eat Underwater Garbage Potato Chips
Some of Rogers' qualms can be chalked up to the fact that BioShock is a video game, and because of that, it might be necessary to make some concessions to the mechanical structures that enable gameplay - like the ability to carry impossible quantities of inventory even when a character app...
Wednesday, May 28
BioShock PS3 Super Official Now
New York, NY – May 28, 2008 – 2K Games, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO), announced today that BioShock®, the "genetically enhanced" story-driven action game, is in development for the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system at 2K Marin. Th...
Thursday, May 22
BioShock Confirmed For PS3
You knew it had to happen eventually. The cover of the latest issue of the UK's PSM3 magazine features a story on the PlayStation 3 version of just about everyone's 2007 Game of the Year BioShock. According to CVG, whose network PSM3 is part of, the issue will feature a lengthy preview of the PS...
Friday, May 9
"BioShock Extremely Well-Suited To Film"
Gore Verbinski, Director of Pirates of the Caribbean, to Direct/Produce BioShock Heads to Hollywood Universal Pictures to develop movie based on hit video game from 2K Games Gore Verbinski, Director of Pirates of the Caribbean, to Direct/Produce
Tuesday, May 6
Mass Effect Copy Protection An Opportunity To Use The Adjective 'Draconian'
Spore is similarly planned to take advantage of the SecuROM copy protection system, one that we're sure is going to eliminate every illegitimate copy of the game from appearing on torrent trackers for at least 48 hours. Take that, piracy! RIP! Owned! Etc!
Wednesday, Mar 26
Take-Two Pondering BioShock MMO, Movie?
Take-Two didn't just say "no, thanks" to EA this morning. They went out and put a little document together, aimed at showing their shareholders just why they should say no. Most of it's taken up with stuff like GTA sales, but one page is interesting. This one, above. Labelled "potential untapp...
Monday, Mar 3
Bioshock 2 Wishful Concept Art
That Videogame Blog points out that concept artist Ben Mauro recently put up a nice collection of concept images for a "proposed sequel to BioShock." Too bad, because it's some pretty amazing stuff. I liked it so much I sent a link to Ken Levine to see what he thought. Haven't heard back yet.
Friday, Feb 15
No Gods or Kings: Objectivism in BioShock [Bioshock]
Late in the development process Levine decided that the game and the underwater city of Rapture needed more propaganda, things like the larger-than-life bust of Andrew Ryan and its slogan: No Gods or Kings. Only Man and the constant barrage of public service announcements.
Friday, Feb 8
Studios Falling Over Themselves For BioShock Movie [Bioshock]
A BioShock movie? No brainer. So why, then, have we heard nothing concrete about plans to adapt the project for the silver screen? It's not for a lack of effort on Hollywood's part, according to Ben Fritz over at Variety, who says that "you'd be hard pressed to find a production company, stud...
Orange Box, COD4, BioShock Dominate AIAS Awards [Awards]
Computer Game of the Year: The Orange Box Role-Playing Game of the Year: Mass Effect Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction: BioShock Outstanding Achievement in Story Development: BioShock Outstanding Achievement in Soundtrack: Rock Band
Tuesday, Jan 22
Portal, BioShock Finally Get Some Recognition At GDC Awards [Gdc08]
PORTAL, BIOSHOCK LEAD MAJOR FINALISTS FOR THE EIGHTH ANNUAL GAME DEVELOPERS CHOICE AWARDS For more information about the Game Developers Choice Awards, check out www.gamechoiceawards.com. Best Technology Halo 3 Crysis Call of Duty 4 Portal Assassin's Creed
Thursday, Jan 17
Complete List Of AIAS Awards Finalists Announced [AIAS]
OVERALL GAME OF THE YEAR BioShock Call of Duty 4 Rock Band Super Mario Galaxy The Orange Box ACTION GAME OF THE YEAR BioShock Call of Duty 4 Crysis Halo 3 The Orange Box OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUNDTRACK BioShock Guitar Hero III Rock Band SingStar Pop Skate
Tuesday, Dec 18
Opinion: X-Play Awards BioShock Game Of The Year [And The Winner Is]
Game of the Year - BioShock Best Gameplay Innovation - Assassin's Creed (free-running/climbing) Best Role Playing Game - Mass Effect Best Writing/Story - BioShock Best Original Soundtrack - BioShock Best Downloadable Content - Pac-Man Championship Edition (XBLA)
Tuesday, Nov 20
Busted BioShock Big Daddy Buyers Rejoice!
When word broke that many of the Big Daddy figures included with the limited edition version of 2K Games' BioShock shipped damaged, the publisher did its best to make good on addressing the problem. Simply register your complaint, return your busted Big Daddy, then wait patiently for you...
Thursday, Nov 8
Bioshock Vs. Portal, A Matter of Choice
Since complaining that video game review are broken, I've gotten a lot of questions along the lines of, "Well, what do you like then?" One weekly criticism I can't get enough of is Leigh Alexander's Aberrant Gamer. Like any good critic, Alexander explores all of those feelings we had while...
Tuesday, Oct 23
BAFTA Winners, Losers Announced
Crackdown (Xbox 360) Gears of War (Xbox 360) God of War II (PS2) The Orange Box (PS3) The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Wii) Bioshock (Xbox 360) Crysis (PC) Gears of War (Xbox 360) Guitar Hero II (PS2) Kane & Lynch: Dead Men (Xbox 360) Wii Sports (Wii) Gameplay
Saturday, Oct 6
Mass Effect Character Spotlight Pt. 2 [Clips]
With BioShock and Halo 3 behind us, the next big epic game (not to be confused with Epic Games) is Mass Effect, set to hit shelves on Nov. 20, just in time for Thanksgiving holidayers to have something to play whilst trapped at various relatives homes. (Don't forget to bring your 360)
Thursday, Sep 6
BioShock Update Gives With One Hand, Taketh With Other
If you're both playing BioShock (likely) and connected to Xbox Live (again, likely), you'd probably already have been prompted to download an update for the game. Wondering what's inside? No, no plasmids, just a few fixes for an autosave bug, AI problems with splicers using health stati...
Wednesday, Aug 29
Big Daddy Is Happy To See You
An ambitious title like BioShock is bound to have its fair share of glitches, but Big Daddy here doesn't care about that. He's just really happy to be appearing in the game and getting a chance to meet you. Possibly NSFW, especially if you work in a nautical museum.
Tuesday, Aug 28
Valve Bans BioShock
In a bizarre turn of events, Half-Life developer Valve has hopped on the violent game banning bandwagon, targeting 2K Games sometimes troubled masterpiece BioShock. In an interview with ComputerAndVideogames.com, the so outspoken we've mentioned him twice today Gabe Newell sheds so...
Friday, Aug 24
Levine: There Will Be No PS3 BioShock
Joystiq got a chance to talk to 2K Boston's Ken Levine about the various problems surrounding the BioShock launch that we've been documenting exhaustively over the past several days. In the process of admitting that screw ups were made, he also neatly nullified a rumor that had been sprea...
Thursday, Aug 23
BioShock CP Hassles Continue
First I posted about the problems with BioShock copy protection. Then I edited the post to add in 2K's statement on the issue at the behest of several readers. Now i wake up to even more problems. Elizabeth's post was all well and good, but when people are having problems uninstalling the game i...
Wednesday, Aug 22
And The GC07 Award Nominees Are... [Everyone's A Winner]
BEST PC GAME BioShock PES 2008 Sacred 2: Fallen Angel 360 Eternal Sonata Kane Lynch: Dead Men BEST WII GAME BEST DS GAME Wii Balance Board Rockband PlayStation Eye Something wrong here if Pro Evo doesn't walk away with at least something... GC LEIPZIG: Expo awards nominees announced [MCV]
BioShock PC - You Only Install Twice (Updated)
UPDATE - Elizabeth from 2K has repsonded on the forums, clarifying the copy protection issue. The key lies in uninstalling before you reinstall. Uninstalling registers the same as installing does, so if you do not perform an uninstall first SecuROM thinks you are just installing the game...
Tuesday, Aug 21
BioShock PS3 Rumor Rekindled By Code
And once again the rumors of 2K's BioShock coming out on the PlayStation 3 are swirling about on the internets, driven by this bit of code found in the PC demo's config.ini file what lists the PS3 as a console. Console] BioShock for the PS3 Confirmed, Yet Again? [PlayStation Universe]
Sunday, Aug 19
PC BioShock Demo Coming Soon (7pm EDT Monday Night) [Impending]
7pm EDT. Monday night (if that's your neck of the woods; the rest of you go sort out your own time zone conversion like I had to). That's when PC users can get in on the sweet, sweet BioShock demo action those 360 owners have been licking off their fingers this past week. FilePlanet users, you shou...
Friday, Aug 17
A BioShock...EP? With "Period" Remixes?
New York, NY - August 17, 2007 - 2K Games, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO), announced today the upcoming release of an exclusive EP remixed by Moby and Oscar The Punk for its highly anticipated BioShock video game. The CD will be bundled with the Game...
Tuesday, Aug 14
Beautiful Katamari Demo Hits XBL
Thought the BioShock demo was enough? Wrong. The Beautiful Katamari demo rolled onto Xbox Live this morning, catchy music and cute graphics in tow. The Xbox 360 exclusive won't be out until this fall. So, go on. Download it. DO IT. Meanwhile, I spent over three hours to get 35 percent of the BioSho...
Sorry 'Bout Not Getting that PC BioShock Demo [All Apologies]
Hey Xbox 360 owners! Played that BioShock demo yet? Nice. Just don't tell PC gamers. They're waiting, 'cause it's coming. 2K Games is burning the midnight oil so that the PC demo gets out before the August 21st drop date. The publisher leaves this apology: 2K Games Says Sorry [CVG]
Monday, Jul 9
BioShock PC Hardware Requirements Revealed
On the fence about which version of BioShock you'll be picking up? It's inevitable that you'll purchase the thing, believe me, it's just a question of whether your PC is up to the processing challenge. My underpowered PC doesn't quite make the cut, hovering right around the minimum system...
Friday, Jun 22
Opinion: In Case Of Rapture: BioShock Hands-On Impressions
As the game takes place largely underwater, showing off Irrational Games' brilliant technology that creates the best water reflections and effects ever seen in a video game, you'll be brusquely baptized prior to your first steps into the new world of Rapture. The beautifully designed a...
Wednesday, May 2
NVIDIA Unleashes World's Fastest GPU Again [World's Fastest Video Card]
GeForce 8 Series GPUs are the first shipping DirectX 10 GPUs and are the reference GPUs for Microsoft DirectX 10 API development. Developers creating next-generation OpenGL titles, such as Enemy Territory: Quake Wars are also using GeForce 8 Series as their development platform of cho...
Friday, Apr 6
BioShock A Lock For PS3? [Bioshock]
Irrational Games' sci-fi RPG shooter looks like it may be making its way to the PLAYSTATION 3, according to the all things PlayStation blog ThreeSpeech. In today's update on upcoming PS3 software, author Steve Boxer namechecks BioShock as one of the console's "promised future delights....
Thursday, Aug 3
Ken Levine on Bioshock Morality
Ken Levine, the smartest writer in video games, gave an interview to Through the Looking Glass fansite SShock2.com about Irrational's upcoming "art deco underwater utopia participant-evolution inspired civil war" survival horror FPS, Bioshock. Subjects cover the evolution of Bios...
