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New Irrational Games Title Announced on August 11

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

BioShock Creators Tasked with Delivering Another Franchise

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

Next Irrational Games Project Will Be Announced After GDC

BioShock 2 is close to its release date but Ken Levine, the man behind the first iteration in the series, is not talking about it, claiming he was not involved in any way in the development process. The well known game creator is more interested in talking about how his team has taken back its original Irrational Gam...

22 January 2010
03:06 GMT

Irrational Games Takes Vengeance on 2K Boston

Smaller companies are taken over by bigger ones all the time. It's the law of nature. They get assimilated in the large enterprise, and, while they lose most of their personality and identity, they gain the financial support to further fund their existence. But, sometimes, there's too much life in the littl...

11 January 2010
03:34 GMT

BioShock Dev Is Working on a New Shooter

There are certainly a lot of very creative development studios in the gaming industry today. But only a few of them have truly proven that time and time again by releasing new and interesting properties or franchises. One such studio is 2K Boston, formerly known as Irrational Games, which is responsible for properti...

11 August 2009
11:11 GMT

New Staff for BioShock 2. Levine to Blame

Have you seen the 2K Boston job posting yesterday? And if yes, then do you know why there's a job posting up on Gamasutra in the first place? Well, 2K and Irrational Games have managed to roll out BioShock without firing or killing someone in the process, but who would have imagined that it was Ken Levine himsel...

30 November 2007
05:08 GMT

Pulitzer Prize Winning 58-Year-Old Rates BioShock's Artistic Value

You're already tired of the whole 'BioShock - is it art?' thing, but just bare with us for a minute or two, it's worth it. According to a piece up on joystiq.com, Washington Post's 58-year-old book critic Michael Dirda, who is also the proud winner of a Pulitzer Prize, took home an Xbox 360 a...

18 September 2007
06:04 GMT

Thompson Bravely Sends His Son to Buy Irrational's M-Rated BioShock

It's been a while since Jack Thompson was in the top ten news (a while meaning more than a month). According to a well known gaming site, the attorney who hates video games so much that he wouldn't mind an asteroid hitting the Earth if he knew Manhunt 2 wasn't going to be played by teens, has sent his ...

15 September 2007
07:58 GMT

2 in 1 BioShock Patch - Fixes Bugs and Freezes 360s Too

Just last night, 2K Games surprised its fans with an update for BioShock. Lord knew the game had some serious bugs and 2K was prompted to do something, and fast. And so they did, according to 1UP.com, as 2K Games community manager, Elizabeth Tobey told the website that the update "improves stability on autosaves, fix...

7 September 2007
05:34 GMT

BioShock Artbook Out. Download Here!

Irrational Games are mighty proud of what they've achieved with BioShock, as just last week they launched the game's orchestral score and now they've rolled out the game's artbook, up on the Cult of Rapture, hosted by 2K Games. You can download the incredibly detailed artbook right HERE. There are...

5 September 2007
05:47 GMT

Characters Masturbate in BioShock!

Quite a few BioShock gamers should already be acquainted with the game's various glitches. For such a promising title, BioShock not only has a lot of bugs, but some very obscene ones as well. For example, the game's "masturbation glitch". It's all over the Internet and if you care to take a look (just ...

30 August 2007
03:40 GMT

Ken Levine (BioShock Lead Designer) - 'Things I Can and Cannot Answer for You'

Everyone's heard of Ken Levine if s/he's a fan of the recently launched FPS, BioShock. The man is practically Irrational Games' image/face, so whenever people will have something to ask about the game, they'll expect Ken to be the one answering all the questions. As I found via EvilAvatar.com toda...

29 August 2007
03:32 GMT

Download BioShock's Orchestral Score Right Here!

At the time Irrational Games first announced who'd be composing BioShock's score, Kevin Levine's and Emily Ridgway's statements made it clear that Garry Schyman was the perfect man for the job. More recently though, the company has made available the game's orchestral score, made up of 12 mp3...

28 August 2007
03:18 GMT

Ken Levine on BioShock's Installation and Widescreen Issues

Two major issues have started circulating on the Internet as soon as BioShock was launched. One, the widescreen wasn't really the widescreen everyone hoped for, while rumors about gamers not being able to install the game more than twice literally set fire to gaming sites all around the globe. Luckily, blokes ov...

27 August 2007
07:02 GMT

Bioshock Demo Rated and Approved by German Rating Board!

Bet you didn't think you'd be hearing this when you got up this morning, now did you? Oh wait, half the population of the globe is still asleep. Oh well, the Internet runs 24/7 so eventually, you'll be reading this piece of news too. It seems that PC gamers, Xbox 360 gamers and FPS fans alike, are gett...

31 July 2007
03:28 GMT

Irrational Answers All Questions - BioShock PC and Xbox 360

Irrational Games has recently updated the Cult of the Rapture website with something called 'BioShock PC Blowout,' revealing tons of details on the Windows version of the game, in an attempt to answer all major FAQs, as I found via VoodooExtreme.com. Everything you've probably asked yourself about the ...

18 July 2007
09:09 GMT

What You Need to Run BioShock

As it was only natural, BioShock's PR has recently revealed the system requirements for running BioShock on your PC. Lucky for thousands of gamers out there, the PC version of Irrational's highly anticipated FPS will run on both Windows XP (with Service Pack 2) and Windows Vista. The full list of specs is a...

10 July 2007
03:46 GMT

Bioshock Designer - Killing The Little Sisters Is a 'Sophisticated Moral' Issue

It has been known for some time now that Irrational's very anticipated next-gen FPS, BioShock, will require gamers to render the Gatherers (Little Sisters) lifeless in order to get the Adam (a substance that genetically modified beings extract from the dead and eat it, for their bodies to reprocess it into a usa...

25 June 2007
04:51 GMT

Xbox 360 - BioShock Limited Edition Dated and Priced at GameStop and EB Games

I don't even want to imagine how much GameStop is going to pay for their broken doors on August 21, 2007, when the Xbox 360 and Windows exclusive FPS is released. OK, so I'm not so good at jokes. Maybe I'll tell you something about the game, like the terms of acquiring your own copy and stuff like tha...

1 May 2007
08:52 GMT

BioShock Priced at Eb Games and GameStop

Irrational Games' BioShock has been finally priced at two major retailers: EB Games and Gamestop, as the developer writes on the official forums: "We have tallied up the votes, read your comments, and are happy to announce the details of the BioShock Limited Edition. Available on August 21st (the same day as the...

25 April 2007
04:00 GMT


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