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The highly-acclaimed survival horror first-person shooter video game, BioShock 2, has arrived on the Mac. Promising a first-person shooter experience unlike any other, BioShock 2 sells for $29.99 (€24.99) on the Mac App Store.
Set within the ruined undersea city of Rapture, BioShock 2 puts players in the boots ... |
29 March 2012
05:55 GMT |
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Irrational Games, the studio behind the very popular BioShock game, has revealed that it’s certainly feeling pressure with its upcoming BioShock Infinite title, due to the original’s huge success.
The original BioShock delighted millions of gamers from all over the world with its brilliant story and top-... |
19 January 2012
03:07 GMT |
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Feral Interactive has announced the Mac version of its genetically enhanced role-playing shooter, BioShock 2. The game will be released for Mac OS X in January 2012.BioShock 2 continues the story of the first installment with new dual wielding gameplay, new plasmids, and a Big Sister chasing you all the way throughou... |
22 December 2011
10:25 GMT |
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2K Games and Rockstar products are the stars of a recent round of slashed prices on the Xbox Live Marketplace, with gamers that are interested in more content for Red Dead Redemption, GTA IV and other titles able to get them with heavy discounts.
The must-buy content from the huge list posted below includes the Un... |
26 January 2011
04:10 GMT |
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After months of absolutely no details, the downloadable content for BioShock 2 is finally dated for launch on the PC platform, according to a new update made by 2K Games.
Seeing as how quite a lot of time has passed since the company confirmed that it would be bringing the two downloadable add-ons, Protector Trial... |
13 January 2011
15:51 GMT |
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After much debate, 2K Games, the publisher of BioShock 2, has just announced that it will be bringing the promised patch and downloadable content to the PC edition of the game, not just the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 ones.BioShock 2 PC owners were left disappointed a few weeks ago when the game's publisher, 2K G... |
28 October 2010
15:51 GMT |
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BioShock 2 recently expanded on its single-player story through the addition of the Minerva's Den downloadable content that was released last August for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, but now it seems that PC owners of the title won't be getting that piece of new content.BioShock 2 continue the story of th... |
11 October 2010
03:25 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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2K Games has announced another piece of single player focused pack of downloadable content for BioShock 2 that is entitled Minerva's Den. It will introduce new characters and locations to enhance the already rich atmosphere of Rapture. No release date or pricing have been mentioned, but it is known that the... |
5 August 2010
15:51 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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2K Games has announced the first set of single player downloadable content for BioShock 2 entitled Protector Trials. The new missions will see players filling in the shoes of the Big Daddy as he defends his Little Sister from the wretched Splicers who intend to steal the ADAM she has gathered from the corpses around ... |
2 July 2010
02:59 GMT |
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The seaside is a dangerous place with sharks roaming in the water and the sun burning up in the sky. Valve cares a lot about its customers and doesn't want to let them go to this ominous place with a summer-themed sale on Steam kicking off today. Because playing games is clearly safer than hanging around beach, ... |
25 June 2010
03:30 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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The February NPD Group sales numbers for the United States are now out and the big winner when it comes to videogames is BioShock 2, the first person shooter with a story from Take Two and 2K Games, which managed to top the sales chart with 562,900 units moved to the players eager for a return trip to Rapture and its... |
12 March 2010
04:44 GMT |
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It seems that while a rebound in the videogame industry is still planned for 2010, it will probably not happen in February. The NPD Group is set to deliver the sales numbers for the United States market later this week and should point to a slowing down of sales when compared with the same period of 2009, which itsel... |
10 March 2010
03:43 GMT |
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Take Two has managed to offer analysts and financial markets better than expected results, showing sales going up by a little over 9% year over year for the quarter of the fiscal year, which ended on January 31, reaching 163.2 million dollars. The publisher also managed to reduce its losses by more than a third, to 3... |
4 March 2010
14:11 GMT |
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This week, we have a review of BioShock 2 up and running, after offering a series of articles on the videogame that takes gamers back to Rapture. We also have the now usual Weekend Reading article, which deals with how demos should bite the dust as open betas ascend to the throne, and an EndWeekGame piece that deals ... |
28 February 2010
10:41 GMT |
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Going back is never easy. There's heartache. You don't know if the old gal looks the same. You don't know who's been with her for the last ten years. You don't know what her beliefs are anymore.Rapture, to me, was very much the star of the first BioShock and I wasn't extremely excited to... |
26 February 2010
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Rebellion Developments and SEGA must be happy as the latest United Kingdom videogame chart shows that their latest release, Aliens vs. Predator, took first place in its first week on sale, showing that players still have fond memories of the franchise and are looking forward to being scared as the Marine, stalk their... |
25 February 2010
04:32 GMT |
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2K Games has announced that it will aggressively offer downloadable content for BioShock 2, the first person shooter it has just released. The first piece of content to be delivered to gamers is called Sinclair Solutions Test Pack and is set for an unspecified date in March. Gamers will be able to pick it up through ... |
23 February 2010
05:26 GMT |
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This week has been all about BioShock 2, the return to Rapture engineered by a variety of 2K studios and Digital Extremes, and we've got four videogame diaries to show after playing the title, talking about Sophia Lamb, the mini last stand battles and the city of Rapture itself. But we also have our regular Week... |
21 February 2010
11:01 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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Oh, how the mighty have fallen. The previous week saw Mass Effect 2, the role playing space opera made by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts, go down from its first place perch to numb eight in the United Kingdom videogame chart while BioShock 2, the 2K-made underwater shooter, which sees the player go back to ... |
18 February 2010
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Florian Totu: 2K Marin launched Bioshock 2 four days ago, and I still haven't even managed to install the game. It's still sitting there, all pretty and comfortable in its case, next to the first Bioshock, which at least I did install. I never really finished the first game in the series, and really didn�... |
12 February 2010
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One of my earliest gaming memories, apart from being embarrassingly bad at Duck Hunt, is of playing Super Mario and actually gently moving the controller from left to right when I needed to make the main character leap over a great chasm.I might have also lifted the controller up when popping coins and the like, to t... |
10 February 2010
17:41 GMT |
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BioShock 2 has the potential to be something like System Shock 2, a game that builds on the potential of its predecessor while making some concessions to gameplay in order to create a smoother and more attractive experience.But the same BioShock 2 has the potential of being something like Deus Ex: Invisible War, a se... |
6 February 2010
05:41 GMT |
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Florian Totu: I'm still wrestling with the second playthrough of Mass Effect 2, looking for different choices to make, but today my attention was captivated by a brighter light. Actually, two brighter lights. One of them was the multilayer demo for Rebellion's Aliens vs Predator, which, at a first look, tur... |
5 February 2010
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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
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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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We're three days short of a full month until Bioshock 2 gets officially released, and the game already promises a lot. We've already seen that 2K Marin plans to make the game somewhat more accessible, so that people that haven't played the original Bioshock can still get a lot out of it, but also that ... |
12 January 2010
03:48 GMT |
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2009 was by no means a good year for videogames. After the industry basically declared itself “recession proof,” it faced a decline over 2008 during most of the months. The fall was steeper when it came to hardware, especially in terms of revenue, mainly after Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo all brought down... |
6 January 2010
13:01 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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Take Two is seen by a lot of people as being a one-trick pony, a company that can only make a profit when a main game in the Grand Theft Auto series is released. This year, it is saying that other titles, chiefly amongst them Borderlands (which has shipped 2 million worldwide), have also brought in a lot of revenue, ... |
22 December 2009
04:39 GMT |
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Publisher Take Two has announced that it has lost 22 million dollars during the last quarter of the year and that its losses for the whole of 2009 have reached 137.9 million, which is significantly more than in 2008. Overall revenue for Take Two stood at 968.5 million dollars, which is more than one third less than i... |
21 December 2009
03:47 GMT |
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With Bioshock 2 coming up in what seems like a plasmid's throw-away, there's still a lot about the game that remains a mystery. We know that we'll get back into Rapture and we know that there will be plenty of Big Daddy and Little Sister action, (OK, that phrasing sounds a bit weird), but pretty much e... |
18 December 2009
12:01 GMT |
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BioShock 2 is one of the most interesting releases of early 2010 and those players who are keen on keeping their Gamerscore up will probably want to see what Achievements the game will offer.The full list is available below and those who plan to play the game on the PS3 will probably be getting the same Trophies. The... |
18 December 2009
04:33 GMT |
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Grand Theft Auto IV was a real head-turner back in 2008 when it was launched, but the spinoffs and additional DLC that were made this year just didn't rise to the same results. Ben Schachter, a Broadpoint AmTech analyst, believes that GTA has reached its milking quota for now, as The Lost and Damned and GTA: Chi... |
8 December 2009
04:35 GMT |
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With Borderlands, the so-called role playing shooter created by Gearbox, now out and performing well in the charts, the next big release for publisher Take Two is BioShock 2, the first person shooter that is being developed by 2K Marin and is a follow up to the award-winning adventure which surprised everyone when it... |
18 November 2009
07:49 GMT |
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The NPD Group data for the month of October, released last week, were anything but good. Overall, the videogaming industry has shrunk by about 19% over the same period during 2008, with price cuts failing to drive up sales volume for the PlayStation 3, the Nintendo Wii and the Xbox 360, and with customers buying less... |
18 November 2009
03:48 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
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This week, Nintendo finally announced that the Wii would be receiving a price cut to 199 dollars, which means that all the current-generation consoles are now cheaper than in August. It's a good sign for the gaming industry in the run up to Christmas, but surely not the only news you need to take into account th... |
27 September 2009
10:11 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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Despite the fact that the publisher has just announced a loss of 55.5 million dollars, industry analysts are rather positive on the outlook of Take Two, the company which publishes the highly popular series created by Rockstar. The belief is that the company will not lose money this year and that it will have a stell... |
4 September 2009
03:46 GMT |
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Take Two seemed to be one of the powerhouses of videogaming during this holiday season. Rockstar was slated to put out Red Dead Redemption, Mafia II was widely seen as the definitive period gangster piece and BioShock 2 was set to give gamers more of the very popular Rapture.And let's not forget that Max Payne 3... |
2 September 2009
14:11 GMT |
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Take Two, best known for putting out Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto series of games, has published its results for the third quarter of the fiscal year and reported a 55 million USD loss, mostly because it lacked a blockbuster release.The biggest games the company has put out have been The BIGS 2, which was release... |
2 September 2009
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