News tagged with BioShock (12 results)
BioShock Activation Not Permanent
"Levine Talks BioShock’s Checkered Launch on Next Generation talks about technical issues, outrage over being mean to the Little Sisters, and the likelihood there will be a BioShock sequel. Meanwhile, Joystiq interviews BioShock's Ken Levine about success and harvesting Little Sisters covers similar...
BioShock, Civ MMOGs?
The Bank
of America SmidCap Conference, always a hotbed of gaming news (thanks
FiringSquad),
has a
series of slides from a presentation by Take-Two chairman Strauss Zelnick on
EA's attempt to purchase Take-Two. Included along the way is a slide showing
they feel BioShock and the Civilizat...
BioShock - The Trilogy
GameSpot reports on the
results of a Take-Two conference call where a general plan for a third
installment in the BioShock series was revealed to follow BioShock 2
(story). In response to a question about the Gore
Verbinski-directed BioShock movie (story), Take-Two Interactive
chairman Str...
BioShock DRM Fixed
The
2K
Forums have news that the activation restrictions have been removed from
BioShock, including the limitation on the number of allowed installations
(thanks
GamesRadar). Word is: Good news! As promised, all activation
restrictions, including install limits, have been removed from Bi...
BioShock Postmortem
BioShock 'was a sequence of failures and errors' on Develop has 2K Boston's
Chris Kline's interesting comments on missteps made during the development of
the submerged shooter: "Bioshock was basically a sequence of failures and
errors," he said. "But every one of them was a go...
BioShock 2 Multiplayer Speculation
IGN has some rumor
and speculation about the possibility of multiplayer support in BioShock 2
based on a
job posting on Gamasutra (thanks Ant). The indications that multiplayer
support will be in submerged shooter sequel include references in the help
wanted to familiarity with BioShock a...
Ken Levine: BioShock Rescued the Shooter
2K Boston's Ken Levine is quoted on
Eurogamer
expressing his opinion that if BioShock had not been successful, it may
have ruined the first-person shooter genre, at least in its high-end
story-driven form. He adds that many of the publishers to whom they pitched the
underwater shooter share...
BioShock Interview
Thinking BioShock From Tech to Philosophy converses with 2K Boston technical
director Christopher Kline about their "terrible secret" (they're not actually
located in Boston), as well less terrible topics, "such as getting gamers
interested in seeing the sequel (and thus drivi...
BioShock 2 Q&A
Gameplayer's BioShock 2 Q&A is a short conversation with Jordan Thomas of 2K
Marin who is asked about what he can discuss about the follow-up to BioShock,
the immersive first-person shooter. They discuss goals for the next BioShock
game, continuity on the development team, the response t...
BioShock Postmortem
The BioShock Postmortem on Gamasutra hears from project lead Alyssa Finley
about what went right and wrong during development of 2K Boston/2K Australia's
first-person shooter. She discusses the various points the BioShock
design was refined based on demonstrations and tests involving outside...
BioShock 2, Borderlands, Mafia II by November '09
MCV
reports that BioShock 2 is planned for release during Take-Two's 2009
fiscal year, which runs from November 1, 2008 through October 31, 2009. This was
revealed during the investor's conference call that followed the announcement of
Take-Two's third-quarter financial results (story). In a...
Ken Levine Threatened Over BioShock DRM
Computer
and Video Games quotes BioShock designer Ken Levine saying he received some
"nasty f-ing threats" over the copy protection for BioShock, which had a
limited number of allowable installations and the constant desire to phone home
for authentication. He doesn't seem embitter...
