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UNCOVERED: Bioshock - The Untold Story

BioShock 2 team nearly made "Destiny before Destiny existed" with one canceled 2K game, ex-dev says: "I wanted to make that game so badly"

It was one of four prototypes the team was looking at

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This FPS that looks like Bioshock with magicians has me under its spell

Magicians: The Devil's Deal is due out in 2027.

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Ken Levine says he had to leave Bioshock behind because 'things can own you if you hold them too tightly'

"It can come to own you if you're not careful."

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Killing a main character in Baldur's Gate 3 on his second playthrough had a massive impact on how BioShock creator Ken Levine approaches new game Judas

He's not as precious about what the player sees

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The Bioshock series has some of gaming's best intros because lead dev Ken Levine knows 'if you have a mediocre beginning, you're done'

First impressions are everything.

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One of BioShock's directors has been questioning the point of one of its key systems: 'I don't care about how many different plasmids I have'

Imsim legend Jonathan Chey's new game is exploring a solution to plasmid favouritism.

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Bioshock lead's fears about Judas were banished by Baldur's Gate 3 gibbing a main character on his second playthrough: 'He was gone'

"I don't have a heartbreak about people not seeing player content."

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BioShock 4 delay "deeply disappointed" Take-Two CEO, who thinks the studio "wasted a lot of time and money" on creative "dead ends"

Showbiz, baby

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"Every AAA single player game since Bioshock is basically the same collection of fetch quests," says ex-Square Enix suit, while Roblox games evolve "as fast as Tiktok trends" and create "overnight millionaires"

"Unclear to me what stops Roblox from being a trillion dollar company in the future"

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One of BioShock Infinite's best narrative devices is its music

Its old-timey twisting of pop tracks is one of my favourite ways a videogame has made use of licensed music.

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Judas lets you "truly inhabit a character" in a way BioShock didn't, and Ken Levine says the game "spent 5 years in just R&D" to make sure NPCs respond to every choice

"We wanted to make a Judas simulator"

GamesRadar

Ken Levine on BioShock, Ayn Rand, and Libertarianism

"What does completely, completely unregulated commerce look like?" Ken Levine's Bioshock will tell you.

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6 years since BioShock 4's announcement, South of Midnight star thinks she might have had a role in the long-awaited FPS but there were so many NDAs she's not actually sure

Either way, Adriyan Rae "worked on it very hard"

GamesRadar

BioShock director Ken Levine isn't as worried while working on upcoming FPS Judas, but he used to find it "really depressing" to decide if he should stick to one style like Hideo Kojima: "Games are so hard to make"

"What exactly is a BioShock game?"

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Ken Levine says Judas might look a bit like Bioshock, but it's 'really radically different'

"This is probably the biggest radical departure we've made since I did BioShock."

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The BioShock movie is still in the works, but scheduling conflicts mean it likely can't come out before 2027, maybe even later

The BioShock movie director has his hands full through the next year.

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Producer says the Bioshock movie is 'definitely going to be based on the first Bioshock game'

But don't expect to see it anytime soon.

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I've Been Waiting For Updates On The BioShock Movie, And A Producer Just Shared A Key Detail That Has Me Pumped

Stirs beneath the waves of the BioShock adaptation?

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Netflix's 'BioShock' Adaptation Is Making A Critical Mistake

A producer for Netflix's upcoming BioShock film confirmed that it'll be a straight adaptation of the 2007 game. That's a huge missed opportunity.

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Ken Levine's new BioShock-like game Judas carries the torch of Monolith's Nemesis System: "They can bribe you, save you in battle, talk s*** about the other characters, and share with you their darkest secrets"

Ken Levine is finally talking about Judas, and he is literally talking about BioShock

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BioShock 4 layoffs have reportedly hit over 80 people, delaying planned late 2026 or early 2027 release and extending 11 years of development hell

It's looking like BioShock 4 still has a long, long road ahead

PC Gamer

BioShock 4 studio lays off staff as former Diablo boss Rod Fergusson returns to get things back on track

Developer Cloud Chamber has laid off an unknown number of employees as it moves to rework the game.

Windows Central

Former Diablo head now in charge of next BioShock — He might be able to save the troubled series (again)

Rod Fergusson, formerly head of Diablo at Blizzard Entertainment, is the new studio head of Cloud Chamber, the team working on the next BioShock game.

GamesRadar

2K lays off unspecified number of BioShock 4 devs, brings in ex-Diablo boss Rod Fergusson 12 years after he helped save BioShock Infinite to show its "commitment to deliver the best game in franchise history"

"These changes are rooted in 2K’s firm confidence in BioShock as one of the most beloved franchises"

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BioShock 4: Everything we know so far about the long-awaited sequel

BioShock 4 may be in development, but brace yourself for a shakeup.

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