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Culture

Now That’s A Big Daddy Banner

9:00AM Adam Barenblat | 2K Games brought professional illustrator Eric Maruscak to PAX to create a masterpiece of epic proportions. More »
News

This Is The Final Version Of BioShock 2’s Big Daddy

10:00AM Owen Good | It’s nothing too surprising, but 2K Marin artist, Colin Fix, has posted on his personal blog the final concept art of BioShock 2’s Big Daddy. More »
Media

The Big Daddies That Might Have Been

12:20AM Mike Fahey | Taking an iconic video game character and reverse-engineering it as a prototype is a delicate task. Let’s look at a few of the concepts drawing that eventually led to the Big Daddy of BioShock 2. More »
News

Let’s Talk Big Daddy Prototype

10:00PM Brian Ashcraft | We’ve already gotten the first third-person look at BioShock 2’s Big Daddy — in the sequel players get to be this “new” Big Daddy. New to us, but not the in-game world. More »
Culture

Real BioShock 2 Dolly Is Far From Cuddly

5:30PM Luke Plunkett | Reader Nathan likes BioShock. Likes BioShock and is good with his hands. So, inspired by the little Big Daddy dollies in the BioShock 2 teaser, Nathan got to work. More »
News

Spoiler Alert! How Big Daddies Appear In BioShock 2

8:00AM Michael McWhertor | Rumours on 2K Marin’s BioShock 2: Sea of Dreams began swirling about the 2K Games forums today, flooding the board with supposed details on the BioShock sequel. Too bad they were mostly bunk. More »
Rumours

Bioshock 2 Features Co-Op, Doesn’t Feature Big Daddies [Update]

3:45AM Mike Fahey | The 2K Games forums are ablaze with Bioshock 2 rumours from the latest issue of Game Informer, with 2 player co-op and a distinct lack of Big Daddies among the game’s new features. More »
Rumours

Big Sisters Stalk Onto BioShock 2

12:00AM Brian Crecente | A sleek, female version of the lumbering Big Daddy that menaced players in the original BioShock will be featured in the sequel to the well-received shooter, sources tell Kotaku. More »

Your Big Daddy Could Have Looked Like This

8:30PM Luke Plunkett | To promote BioShock, 2K shipped the collector’s edition with a Big Daddy figurine. Sounded great in theory, but in practice,the thing was too fragile, and looked like it had been painted by…well, somebody who had never played BioShock. And who loved the smell of industrial-strength spraypaint a little too much. Enter a Mr. David Blades, who took the standard figure, broke its arms and legs off, then re-posed and re-painted the whole thing so it’s looking much nicer. Well played, Mr. Blades, well played. Mr Bubbles [schwerpunkt] More »

Big Daddy Trudges Into Homes, Looking for Little Girls

8:00AM Brian Crecente | Reader Jonathan shot us an email and this photo evidence today to let us know that the replacement Big Daddy figures 2K promised back in August have started showing up on doorsteps. While they don’t have any Little Sisters in tow, they are accompanied by fancy Bioshock art books, well worth the wait, I’d say. Check out a glimpse of the art book on the jump and another fancy in-focus one by reader DrcAnjel. More »