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Least We Know 2K Boston Aren’t Working On A Wii Party Game
1:40PM Luke Plunkett | Normally, we wouldn’t care so deeply about merely the genre a developer was working on, but since the developer in question is 2K Boston – the team behind BioShock – yeah, we care. More »
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Take-Two Trademarks Irrational Boston
7:40AM Mike Fahey | Could Take-Two be giving 2K Boston back their unique identity? A trademark application for Irrational Boston seems to point in that direction. More »
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Need a Job? 2K Boston’s Recruiting Hard at GDC
6:00AM Owen Good | 2K Boston, the house behind Bioshock, hits SF and the GDC this week looking for talent to help them with “their biggest and most ambitious project yet.” Dozens of openings are promised. More »
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BioShock Dev Building ‘Action-Packed AAA Multiplayer Title’
1:00AM Owen Good | Not everybody’s firing. 2K Boston’s hiring, and its ad posting tips off that its current big project is an Unreal-based “AAA multiplayer” for Xbox, PS3 and PC. More »
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Why 2K Boston Aren’t Making BioShock 2
6:30PM Luke Plunkett | 2K Boston, with help from 2K Australia, made BioShock. And what a great game it was. But they’re not making BioShock 2. Somebody else is. Why somebody else and not 2K Boston? Ken Levine (pictured, emerging from the ruins of Rapture clutching the last remaining…Coke Zero!) explains: I think for us, we come out of our BioShock coma – from shipping that game, and how hard that was – and then making a determination. What’s next for us, and how aggressive are we going to be? More »
BioShock PS3 Rated, Syringe Stabbing Still Not Considered Drug Use
12:00PM Logan Booker | Yesterday, BioShock on PS3 appeared in the OFLC’s database. Somehow, the static image of a syringe is much more suggestive than a dude violently jabbing himself with a needle and groaning in ecstasy. Good thing there’s no mention of real world drugs, so we can pretend it’s just a game!
Oh, that’s right, it is a game.
As an aside, Digital Extremes gets an “author” credit in the database entry, thanks to its optimisation work.
BIOSHOCK Game (Playstation 3) [OFLC] More » ‘BioShock Should’ve Failed’
5:00PM Brian Ashcraft | BioShock was a big hit. But, the way lead programmer Chris Kline sees it, the game should’ve been a MISERABLE FAILURE. BioShock was first planned in early 2002 when its developer, the then Irrational Games, decided it needed a big AAA title. The idea was to make a System Shock 2 clone, but development on the game stopped for about two years. “The very first failure”, recalls Kline, “was that we wanted to base this whole thing on System Shock 2. After a couple false starts, it wasn’t until the E3 2006 demo that the team really had to think about things like making the game work and creating a “compelling user experience”. Kline adds: More »
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Ken Levine And Co. At Work On New X-Com Game?
5:00PM Luke Plunkett | The latest Official Xbox Mag is running a rumour that’s been quietly – oh so quietly – doing the rounds for a few months now. That rumour concerns just what, exactly, 2K Boston (and I presume 2K Australia as well) are up to these days. With 2K Marin confirmed as the team behind BioShock 2, what could Ken Levine and the rest of the guys behind BioShock 1 be working on? Maybe a new X-Com game. Yes, X-Com. 2K quietly bought the rights to the series in 2007, so the rumour’s at least got a solid footing, though we’re still going to recommend you increase your daily intake of salt. If only because the thought of a new, official X-Com game is too awesome to mess around with. [Official Xbox Magazine, June 2008] More »
