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The Firaxis developed XCOM: Enemy Unknown is now slated to arrive before the shooter reimagining of the same concept and the developers working on the game are eager to see how fans of the original will react to their take on it. Jake Solomon, who is a lead designer working on XCOM: Enemy Unknown, has told Rock, Pap... |
7 February 2012
04:30 GMT |
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The development studio 2K Marin is apparently working on a new intellectual property at the same time as they are developing the shooter based on the XCOM universe. References to the new project have been found in the resume of Hogarth De La Plante, who is the co-founder of 2K Marin and is one of the leading develop... |
30 January 2012
13:41 GMT |
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The XCOM first person shooter game that’s been in development at 2K Marin for quite some time, has apparently been delayed into the first quarter of 2013 by its publisher, 2K Games.
The XCOM franchise has been dormant for quite some time, but its owner, 2K Games, decided to bring back the real time strategy se... |
16 January 2012
15:31 GMT |
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2K Games, the publisher of the coming XCOM first person shooter from 2K Marin as well as the XCOM: Enemy Unknown strategy title from Firaxis, has revealed that both games will cater to all sorts of fans and will mark a successful return for the old franchise.
XCOM delighted lots of PC gamers back in the 1990s with i... |
9 January 2012
20:21 GMT |
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The new XCOM from 2K Marin and Take Two is one of the divisive video game projects of the coming year, with initial reports suggesting that the game was dropping all strategy elements in order to embrace the first-person shooter genre and with recent reports from E3 2011, including my Hands Off, suggesting that the g... |
8 July 2011
04:49 GMT |
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When 2K Marin and publisher Take Two announced their intention to create a video game called XCOM and showed their initial ideas the gaming community was highly critical, saying that the game should not use the venerable name and that the third-person shooter space was not suited for it. But the presentation for XCO... |
8 June 2011
01:38 GMT |
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Rumors towards the mid point of February suggested that there were significant changes made to the XCOM project that is being developed at the studio 2K Marin, after the leader of the team announced that he was resigning.
But the publisher says that, while Martin Slater left, development work is going on as planne... |
1 March 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Take Two, as the publisher, has announced that the first piece of downloadable content for the single player mode of BioShock 2, called Minerva's Den, will be arriving on August 31 on both the PlayStation Network and on the Xbox Live and will be sold for 800 Microsoft Points, which is the equivalent of 10 dollar... |
27 August 2010
04:27 GMT |
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The main creative director working at 2K Marin on the XCOM project has said that the move to first person shooter from turn based strategy game will not affect the feelings that players will get from the alien battling experience.It was quite a surprise to hear that 2K Marin, the studio which delivered the sequel to ... |
16 August 2010
06:06 GMT |
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In a recent interview, Ken Levine, the creator of the BioShock franchise, revealed why he chose not to be involved in the creation of BioShock 2. Apparently, he and his team wanted to avoid repetition and focus on innovation in the horror genre. Speaking to Eurogamer at the event dedicated to the announcement of BioS... |
13 August 2010
10:47 GMT |
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The single player piece of downloadable content for BioShock 2 has been launched on the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3, with the PC release to follow at a later date. It is called Protector Trials and allows players to fill in the shoes of a Big Daddy again. He is tasked to defend his Little Sister against hordes of ... |
4 August 2010
04:31 GMT |
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Irrational Games has announced that it will be holding an event on August 11 of this year in New York City, presumably in order to announce the new project on which the team is working. The invitation, which can be seen attached to this article, does not offer any information and does not even mention a new project b... |
26 July 2010
15:11 GMT |
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2K Marin, more specifically, its Australia branch, has announced that it is developing a title called XCOM based on the old alien fighting franchise, ditching the hyphen and moving the experience to the first person shooter genre.The initial announcement was pretty divisive, some gamers that knew the original being a... |
23 April 2010
03:35 GMT |
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Take Two recently announced that a new game called XCOM but based on the old X-Com franchise, is in development at 2L Marin, the same studio that also created this year's BioShock 2. This means previous speculation, which linked the XCOM videogame with the Irrational Games team, was wrong and players still do no... |
20 April 2010
03:58 GMT |
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Take Two will publish a new XCOM videogame, with development duties assigned to 2K Marin, the team behind the hit BioShock 2 release of earlier this year, more precisely to its Australian branch. Actual details on the new project are limited, but we know that the new title will be a first person shooter and that the ... |
17 April 2010
11:41 GMT |
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2K Games and Take Two have announced that they are indeed working on a XCOM game, with plans to launch it for the Xbox 360 home gaming console from Microsoft and the PC.The team says it will combine the classic strategic elements that made X-COM a classic while moving the main action to the first person shooter genre... |
14 April 2010
05:09 GMT |
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Andrei Dumitrescu: It's the week of BioShock 2 for me and I will continue to play the role of early Big Daddy this weekend, aiming to liberate all Little Sisters and then get as much ADAM from corpses as possible before I go to what I suppose to be the final section of the game. BioShock 2 is a welcome evolution... |
19 February 2010
15:31 GMT |
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With just one week away from its February 9 launch date, Bioshock 2 is getting more and more of its secrets revealed. We know that 2K Marin is already working on some DLC for the game and also that while it will be present, SecuROM will play a small part in the title's DRM. 2K Marin also gave us a brief run-down... |
2 February 2010
05:12 GMT |
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Regardless of much of the flack Infinity Ward took from taking out dedicated server support from its Modern Warfare 2, it looks like, instead of learning from other people's mistakes, developers blindly go head-first into the same iron-studded walls. DICE thumped its chest that its PC multiplayer for Bad Company... |
28 January 2010
04:48 GMT |
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We know game developers always say that they listen to the gaming community and that the opinion of gamers is very important to them, but to actually see results and not just empty words is always shocking. Valve has a steadily build tradition of public interaction, but to see that 2K Marin is also as receptive, if n... |
26 January 2010
05:01 GMT |
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Bioshock 2 is getting ready for its February 9 launch date, and that's so close that 2K Marin has released the game's PC specifications. The developer's community manager revealed not only the system requirements, but also the DRM, with Games for Windows Live and SecuROM as part of the picture. ... |
22 January 2010
05:41 GMT |
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The trend to prepare and release downloadable content soon after the initial release of a videogame seems to be here to stay. Dragon Age: Origins received DLC from BioWare to encourage people to pick up the game new, Mass Effect 2 is set to get fresh content fairly quickly after launch and now it appears that BioShoc... |
20 January 2010
08:32 GMT |
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Bioshock 2's release date is steadily approaching, and one of the bigger things the game changed from its previous installment was the multiplayer. And while the ideas might look to us like they've come in pretty late, 2K Marin doesn't believe that at all. According to the studio, it has been cooking t... |
19 January 2010
12:31 GMT |
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Take Two is one of the videogame publishers that have had a tough year in 2009, postponing the releases of several high profile titles and announcing an increasing loss over 2008. And it seems that next year, which does not feature the release of a new installment in the wildly popular Gran Theft Auto series, might a... |
29 December 2009
05:24 GMT |
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Motion control is coming into its own in a big way. The Nintendo Wii has had it for some time but a lot of people dismissed it as just a gimmick to bring in more casual players but now the Xbox 360 is getting Project Natal set to arrive at some point in 2010, while the PlayStation 3 is getting the motion tracking wan... |
4 November 2009
07:25 GMT |
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2K Games has officially announced that it plans to release BioShock 2, the highly anticipated sequel to one of the best video games of 2007, on February 9, 2010. The title is set to be delivered for the Xbox 360 from Microsoft, the PlayStation 3 from Sony and the PC through Games for Windows Live. The game has been d... |
21 September 2009
06:00 GMT |
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BioShock 2 has spent quite a lot of time in the media spotlight these days, as its publisher, Take Two, has announced that it won't be available this fall, due to the fact that the teams at 2K Marin, which is designing the single player game, and at Digital Extremes, which is handling the multiplayer side, need ... |
17 July 2009
03:06 GMT |
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BioShock was one of the most interesting games of 2007, revealing a rich, new world to players who were extremely interested in the enemies and the power that was literally at their fingertips, thanks to the weapons and special abilities present in it. Now, as BioShock 2 is getting ready to be launched by 2K Marin, ... |
22 May 2009
16:11 GMT |
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BioShock was one of the greatest games in the last few years, thanks to its great story, intriguing gameplay mechanics and tough moral issues that it raised and offered to players. But even though it was a great experience, the fact that it didn't have a multiplayer mode made it insignificant to a lot of gamers ... |
11 May 2009
16:41 GMT |
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BioShock was one of 2007's greatest titles, taking players on a fantastic voyage through an underwater city that had fallen prey to its inhabitants who had torn it apart and were genetically mutated. The second game also takes place in the underwater dystopia which is Rapture, but a few years after the events in... |
7 May 2009
16:41 GMT |
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BioShock was one of the biggest games of 2007, managing to gain critical acclaim for its complex story, unique twists and intricate gameplay, following the path of the System Shock franchise. The man behind the game, Ken Levine, and his 2K Boston studio, passed the franchise to the 2K Marin team and are now working o... |
25 March 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Bioshock is a truly terrific game. With innovations and a wide opportunity of choices which affected every aspect of the game, it was a breath of fresh air for the gaming industry. The philosophical and moral issues asked by this game really tore gamers into camps, each of them militating for the choices which ... |
30 September 2008
14:21 GMT |
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Take Two might be praising GTA IV for its very good second quarter financial results, but let's not forget that last year the bulk of the profits that the company reported were not brought in by a Rockstar crime drama, but by the more sober hit that was 2K Boston's BioShock. So, it was no surprise that Take... |
6 June 2008
10:15 GMT |
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Even if initially Bioshock was announced for the PC and next generation consoles, we now only have a PC and a Xbox 360 versions to play around with. But that situation is about to change, as there is now official confirmation regarding the PlayStation 3 version of the multi-million selling dystopian shooter.Hints abo... |
23 May 2008
09:53 GMT |
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