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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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Steam Machine and Switch 2 aren't "massive technological upgrades," says BioShock creator – but they prove we've hit "diminishing returns" with cutting-edge graphics tech

Looks aren't everything

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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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Ken Levine says Steam Machine shows we're hitting 'diminishing returns' with bleeding-edge graphics tech—just look at BioShock to see why art is more important

Keep your traced rays, I'm attaching barnacles to things.

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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."

PC Gamer

Immersive sim sickos rejoice: the makers of Void Bastards are creating their most choice-driven game to date in Godzone 6

Build a grotesque mutant and then play to their hideous strengths in a highly-detailed sci-fi dungeon.

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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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Bioshock creator Ken Levine's new narrative FPS Judas was shaped by a "stream of consciousness" where an anti-social character prefers vending machines to people: "Conversation is a prelude to failure"

The protagonist of Judas isn't a fan of restaurants

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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?"

GamesRadar

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."

PC Gamer

"I don't think it works super well": BioShock creator Ken Levine hasn't been involved in BioShock 4's development, and he's not sure if people would want him to "come in and punch things up" anyway

"Me just coming in [...] and saying X, Y, and Z, that's not really how games are made"

GamesRadar

After 11 years, BioShock Infinite’s creator finally talks Judas — and it’s all about betrayal

We finally saw signs of life for Judas from developer Ghost Story Games, with creative director Ken Levine sharing what players can expect from the story.

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Bioshock creator Ken Levine reveals new details about his next game Judas and its central Villainy gameplay mechanic

After over a year of radio silence, Bioshock creator Ken Levine has finally emerged to provide an update on his next game, Judas.

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Judas must be getting closer, because Ken Levine just rolled out its first-ever dev log and some new art

The debut dev log talks about how you'll make enemies and influence people in its Shock-like world.

GamesRadar

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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Ken Levine’s BioShock successor Judas still in development, with a new gameplay system that decides who the villain is based on your actions

I almost forgot about this one, but it sounds very promising

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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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BioShock 4 has "had some ups and downs along the way," but Take-Two CEO promises "hand on heart, without question" that the immersive sim is "going to come out"

"We have very big shoes to fill on BioShock because of the legacy of Ken Levine"

PC Gamer

Ken Levine wanted System Shock 2's final level to be set in outer space, but the idea was shot down by its senior designers: 'They're like dude, we have 14 months to make this game'

"I still went and made a level that looked entirely different and played entirely different."

PC Gamer

BioShock maestro Ken Levine says Judas is 'very old school' because 'you buy the game and you get the whole thing… no online component, no live service'

Though he doesn't "blame anyone for trying to make a living."

GamesRadar

BioShock creator says "audiences reward" single-player games that don't have "other methods of monetization," like Baldur's Gate 3, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

"I'm just grateful that we're allowed to not do that because that just frees us to purely design the game for the player's experience"

GamesRadar

OG BioShock director recommends one very BioShock-y Steam Next Fest game that already has 500 "very positive" reviews

Set in a twisted take on Disney World... need I say any more?

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