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Bioshock creator's new game Judas reportedly feels a lot like, er, BioshockMar 27, 2024 - VG247Following the fresh trailer for it that aired during late January’s State of Play showcase, we’ve now gotten some more info on Judas, the upcoming sci-fi action title from Ghost Story Games, the studio co-founded by BioShock creator Ken Levine. If you’ve been eagerly awaiting any news on the game since it was revealed back in late 2022, you’ll be glad to hear that there are some gameplay impressions this time around. The verdict? Well, it sounds pretty interesting, and also plenty like, well, BioShock. Ghost Story Games invited both IGN and Geoff Keighley to sample 5 to 6 hours of it, and they’ve now shared what they thought of what they saw during that time. The former says that Judas is “a first-person narrative-driven shooter that, from a moment-to-moment gameplay perspective, will feel familiar to BioShock fans.” Read more BioShock creator calls canned FPS "the best game we never got to make"Nov 11, 2023 - PCGamesNThe director and creator of the original BioShock calls the studio's canceled co-op survival horror shooter the best game the team never got to make, as he and his slimmed-down studio continue to work on the BioShock-inspired sci-fi FPS Judas. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Grab all three BioShock games for a whopping 75% off right now Netflix's BioShock movie has the rights to both Rapture and Columbia Here's what BioShock looks like in Unreal Engine 5 It’s your last chance to play Bioshock, Borderlands, and Stray via PlayStation PlusJun 28, 2023 - VG247While we already know that the likes of Far Cry 6, Inscription, and more will be arriving on PlayStation Plus in due course, PS Plus subscribers will be bidding farewell to some stellar games during July. Meaning that unless you cough up some cash or find a different service to play them via, now is your last chance to give these games a go. The games leaving PS Plus can be found under the ‘Last chance to play’ collection on the PlayStation Store, and if they leave as the new batch of games arrives, they’ll likely be going on July 18. The games to be removed from PS Plus are as follows: * Stray; * Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell; * Marvel’s Avengers; * Fluster Cluck; * Raiden V: Director’s Cut; * Rogue Stormers; * Bioshock Remastered; * Bioshock 2 Remastered; * Bioshock Infinite: The Complete Collection; * Borderlands: The Handsome Collection; Read more Grab all three BioShock games for a whopping 75% off right nowJun 1, 2023 - PCGamesNWould you kindly play the BioShock games? The shooter trilogy is among the most influential set of FPS games around, with their gorgeously built worlds, immersive narratives, and frenetic combat that blends punchy weapons with magical abilities. If you've never explored Rapture or Columbia before, you owe it to yourself to check out the BioShock trilogy - and a Steam sale has them so cheap right now that you won't have to break the bank. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Netflix's BioShock movie has the rights to both Rapture and Columbia Here's what BioShock looks like in Unreal Engine 5 Humble crams $657 worth of stuff into a $20 bundle, and every penny goes to COVID relief BioShock 4 gets a narrative designer who's written for Ghost of Tsushima, Watch Dogs: LegionDec 11, 2022 - VG247The next, currently untitled BioShock game has added a writer on Ghost of Tsushima as its narrative designer. "The dream is real!" wrote Liz Albl earlier this week. "So happy to announce I've joined Cloud Chamber as Narrative Lead on BioShock." Albl already has a number of writing credits under her belt, having written on games like Ghost of Tsushima, Far Cry 5, Watch Dogs: Legion, and more. It's been a while since we've heard anything about this fourth entry in the BioShock series, most of which has just been a lot of he-said, she-said rather than anything actually concrete. Back in 2020 some job listings gave us a bit of insight into what the game might be like, with a particular call for developers that have experience working on RPGs. Read more The Netflix Bioshock film adaptation has found its director and writerAug 26, 2022 - VG247The waters are churning around the Netflix film adaptation of Bioshock today, as both the director and scriptwriter have been named in a public Twitter post from the official Netflix account. While it’s still very early days for the project — as you may expect considering the fact they’re only now announcing who is filling important roles on the project — it does mark a major milestone on the next big video game adaption from the massive digital media company. Looking at the roles, we have Francis Lawrence as the director. They’ve previously worked on well known blockbusters such as I Am Legend, Hunger Games: Catching Fire as well as both Mockingjay films. But forget all that — this guy also worked on Black Eyed Peas’ Pump It music video, as well as Gwen Stefani’s What You Waiting For, and Jennifer Lopez's Jenny from the Block. Gold star. Read more Netflix's BioShock movie finds its director in The Hunger Games series' Francis LawrenceAug 26, 2022 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunStreaming giants Netflix have a BioShock movie to make and, after pointing their golf club at various directors, they’ve selected Francis Lawrence. He’s best known for overseeing three of The Hunger Games movies and is working on the prequel coming out next year, The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes. Netflix have also hired screenwriter Michael Green for the BioShock flick. Green wrote the Kenneth Branagh versions of Agatha Christie’s Murder On The Orient Express and Death On The Nile. I guess that means he’s got experience of period settings. Read more Netflix's BioShock movie has the rights to both Rapture and ColumbiaFeb 16, 2022 - PCGamesNNetflix has revealed that a BioShock movie is in production, and the streaming service has the adaptation rights to the entire FPS game franchise. That includes BioShock Infinite, meaning Netflix could potentially incorporate the floating city of Columbia and characters like Elizabeth as well as the sunken city of Rapture if it so chooses. This week Netflix announced that it is "partnering to produce a film adaptation of the renowned videogame franchise BioShock" along with publisher 2K/Take-Two Interactive. Official Twitter feed Netflix Geeked posted the reveal alongside the cover art for the original BioShock, which shows the city of Rapture alongside the game's iconic Big Daddy and its Little Sister companion. It seems like the BioShock Netflix movie will be based on Rapture and the more popular BioShock 1, which is more of a horror game. However, as spotted by Twitter user Supererogatory (via TheSixthAxis) Netflix has actually picked up the rights to the entire franchise - including Bioshock 2, Infinite, and the Rapture novel. This potentially means that Netflix could introduce elements from Infinite too if it wants, including the city of Columbia and characters such as Elizabeth and Booker - who did cross over into Rapture, of course. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Here's what BioShock looks like in Unreal Engine 5 Humble crams $657 worth of stuff into a $20 bundle, and every penny goes to COVID relief BioShock's director has apologised for that naked final boss fight Netflix are the latest to try to make a BioShock movieFeb 15, 2022 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunNetflix has announced a partnership with Take-Two Interactive to produce a BioShock movie. No writer or director is attached to the project, but it's the latest in several attempts to turn the 2007 first-person shooter into a big budget movie. Read more Ken Levine’s Ghost Story development team trapped in development hell – reportJan 3, 2022 - VG247A new report from Bloomberg (via Kotaku) details the status of Ken Levine's small studio, Ghost Story Games, as being in a perpetual state of development hell and nowhere close to releasing a game. The studio, founded in 2014 at the same time Bioshock developer Irrational Games shuttered, was meant to be a small studio able to deliver on big ideas with publisher 2K’s financial backing. But that has yet to occur, and reports from former devs at the studio blame Levine’s managerial style for causing burnout and grief for everyone working there. One of those devs, co-founder Mike Snight, left the company with half the company’s other founders due to Levine’s “creative process”. Part of the problem was Levine’s desire to create a AAA-sized game with an indie-sized team. Compounding this is Levine’s perfectionism and temperament, which will often see to it that something worked on for months might be thrown out on a whim. Ken Levine’s vision for the game might even be unrealistic even if the team wasn’t small. His idea of “narrative Legos” that would offer completely different experiences to every player doesn’t mesh with his preference of a cinematic game where you can see everything that’s happening at once. Read more Here's what BioShock looks like in Unreal Engine 5Aug 29, 2021 - PCGamesNA talented developer has remade the original BioShock in Unreal Engine 5 and released a three-minute-long trailer to showcase their efforts - complete with combat, a whale, dialogue, an underwater Big Daddy fight, and several cats for some reason. Creator noodlespagoodle previously did a video of what BioShock would look like in Unreal Engine 4 back in 2014, and while other developers did more direct recreations of areas in the game they opted for an original area that recreated the feel of BioShock instead. Now noodlespagoodle has done something similar in Unreal Engine 5 (thanks DSOGaming). The short demo uses the original textures from BioShock to keep faithful to the game, but the developer has created an original scenario in a new part of Rapture. It looks, feels, and plays like a better-looking remake of BioShock, complete with a lot of identifiable features such as the Gatherer's Garden vending machine, weapons, audio logs, UI, a crazed Splicer, a Little Sister, and even a Big Daddy in an underwater fight - but there are some obvious differences too. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Humble crams $657 worth of stuff into a $20 bundle, and every penny goes to COVID relief BioShock's director has apologised for that naked final boss fight 9 of the worst boss fights we've ever endured Humble crams $657 worth of stuff into a $20 bundle, and every penny goes to COVID reliefMay 12, 2021 - PCGamesNA fresh Humble bundle is here, and there's no need to worry about any charity sliders this time - this time, you're getting $657 worth of games, books, and comics in a $20 bundle, and 100% of the proceed are going to support COVID-19 relief through organisations like Direct Relief, Doctors Without Borders, International Medical Corps, and GiveIndia. You can pick up the Humble Heal COVID-19 Bundle here. On the gaming side, you're getting a load of both indie and triple-A classics, including Into the Breach, BioShock Remastered, Undertale, Baba Is You, The Witness, This War of Mine, Saints Row: The Third, Titan Quest: Anniversary Edition, Superhot, Wargroove, Brutal Legend, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Crusader Kings Complete and, yes, more. Every game is redeemable on Steam, and there are more than just games here, too. There are also a pile of digital books, including a number of guides to dealing with the stressful times we all find ourselves in. (There's also a Red Sonja comic, if your idea of stress management is lopping off people's heads.) Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: BioShock's director has apologised for that naked final boss fight 9 of the worst boss fights we've ever endured Undiscovered BioShock easter egg emerges in 4chan thread about devs on drugs What if we could shuffle plot twists each time we played?Jul 25, 2020 - EurogamerI love a good plot twist. I will always remember the moment in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic when I found out who my character really was, and always remember the moment in BioShock when I found out who the real baddie was. These things make a game, they sear it into our memories. But once you know the secret what then? The game is done more or less. You might get a bit of mileage from playing again and spotting the clues, but there are no real surprises left to be had, not unless you're Nier Automata but let's not go there now. But what if a story could change? What if it was fundamentally different a second time around? I got to thinking about this recently after talking to a man called Ray Winninger, the head of Dungeons & Dragons, tabletop side. He's only recently been appointed that position after spending many years away from Wizards of the Coast, but he's been involved with and playing D&D most of his life. He professionally wrote campaigns as a teenager and even played with the game's creators, Dave Arneson and Gary Gygax. Dungeons & Dragons is in his bones. Read more The most satisfying architecture in PC gamesMar 6, 2020 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun One Off The List is our weekly list feature. Is there something you think doesn t deserve to be on this list? Comment with your reasons why, and next week it may be struck off. If it’s not baroque, don’t fix it. Little architecture joke for you there, just to kick off a dry topic with a giggle. You see, appreciating architecture is for people in beige cardigans. Folks who subscribe to magazines printed on paper so thick you can still calculate the tree s age. You know the type I mean. Spectacled couples with non-Ikea coffee tables. Thirty-year-olds. People like you! Here are 11 examples of very satisfying architecture in PC games. (more…) The 8 coldest monsters in PC gamesJan 10, 2020 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun One Off The List is our weekly list feature. Is there something you think doesn t deserve to be on this list? Comment with your reasons why, and next week it may be struck off. I have spent the winter holidays making a list, checking it twice, trying to find who is naughty on ice. But unlike the popular red-clad demon of the north, my list is reserved for terrors, demons and critters larger than 4 feet tall. I m talking about cold monsters. They re very chic this week. You see, while Nic has been battering majestic species of endangered giganto-moose in our Monster Hunter World: Iceborne review, I have been working hard to catalogue the frostiest freaks this side of video gaming. Here you go, the 8 coldest monsters in PC games. (more…) The 8 worst gifts for PC gamersDec 20, 2019 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun One Off The List is our weekly list feature. Is there something you think doesn t deserve to be on this list? Comment with your reasons why, and next week it may be taken off. There are only five days left to furtively flick through your cousin s Facebook page in a desperate attempt to understand them as a person. But you do know one thing: they love to play those videogames. That s enough to go on, surely. You can just type gamer gifts into the cybervoid and see what comes out! No. Do not do that. Here are the 8 worst gifts for PC gamers, and if any other list goblin tells you otherwise they are a scurrilous crook and they want your money. (more…) BioShock 4 should let you fire an albatross from your handDec 10, 2019 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun What is the true hallmark of a BioShock game? According to the press release about the new 2K-founded studio Cloud Chamber, wot is making a brand new BioShock, it’s “iconic, first-person shooter gameplay”. Before Binfinite came out, original series lead Ken Levine said in an interview that it’s the “incredibly detailed world” each game lets you explore. Or maybe it’s the PoLiTiCs? BioShock, famously, includes a pretty basic critique of the wet fart that is Objectivism, causing people either to argue it was a searing work of political genius, or be furious that it wasn’t a work of searing political genius. Perhaps it’s the settings? BioShock and BioShock 2 were set in an underwater city, and Infinite was set in a floating one. I can only assume the new one will just be about a normal city. But run on centrist principles. The most dystopian system of them all! But of course, none of these things are really the hallmark of a BioShock game. What truly makes the series stand out is that you can shoot flying animals out of your hand, because of DNA. And I think we all know what that animal should be used as ammunition in the new BioShock. (more…) A new BioShock is being made at 2K's new studioDec 9, 2019 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun Pretty pop-philosophy FPS series BioShock is to return, 2K announced today, with a new game coming from a new studio. 2K don’t reveal even the name of the new game, let alone in which sort of strange city it’ll (surely?) be set, but it’s official: BioShock is back, baby. 2K have muttered about resurrecting it several times in the years since the release of BioShock Infinite and demise of creators Irrational Games, and this time it seems to be real. The new BioShock is being made by Cloud Chamber, a new studio who’ll be working on the game “for the next several years.” Don’t hold your breath. Unless you’re underwater. In which case, do. (more…) New BioShock game announced, still "several" years awayDec 9, 2019 - EurogamerA new BioShock game is in the works, publisher 2K has confirmed. The project will be in development for the next "several" years, 2K said in a statement today, with development centred at the publisher's newly-named Cloud Chamber studio. Cloud Chamber is headed up by Kelley Gilmore, formerly of 2K's XCOM and Civ studio Firaxis, with offices in both San Francisco and Montreal. Read more The 7 most needless minigamesNov 22, 2019 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun One Off The List is our weekly list feature. Is there something you think doesn t deserve to be on this list? Comment with your reasons why, and next week it may be let off. Minigames are the coffee Revel of videogames. They are harmless, infrequent and unpleasant to think about. We accept their presence, yet no one has ever eaten a pack of Revels and wished for more coffee nuggets. Nobody completed Final Fantasy X and thought: Needs more Blitzball . That minigames exist as a mild distraction inside the glowing guts of other games is itself ridiculous. Imagine you were on a golf course, and hole 12 turned out to be its own 8-hole pitch n putt. This is stupid, you d think, and then you would play pitch n putt for the rest of the day in a mindless stupor. Here are the 7 most gratuitous minigames – but do they all deserve to be here? (more…)
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