The final instalment in feminist critic Anita Sarkeesian's look at the depiction of women in video games ran today, focusing on how games depict women (and men) as sidekicks. The 11-minute episode concludes two eight-episode seasons of possibly the most controversial series of cultural criticism about games in the medium's history.
BioShock Infinite's Elizabeth is cool, but she's a lot cooler in the game's DLC, which explains why so many people are out there doing such a good job cosplaying the character.
So there you are, minding your own business, when the CEO of Giant Game Publisher approaches you with an offer: he wants you to lead the development of a brand new entry in That First Person Shooter that he makes, and he wants you to make sure it's fun to play. How do you make sure it's fun to play?
As we've seen in the last few years, being behind a popular franchise or pumping out successful games is not always enough to save a studio from the chopping block. Take Irrational Games and BioShock, which pushed 25 million copies. That's apparently mediocre, if the fate of Irrational is anything to go by.
In case you forgot, Valve's Source Filmmaker is an extremely powerful tool for turning games into movies. Sometimes we get things like the fantastic Team Fortress 2 End of the Line short. Other times we get sheer, unbridled madness. These videos starring BioShock's Booker DeWitt are the latter.
When first signs of life appeared for The Black Glove, it quickly became clear that the former BioShock devs working on the first-person game wanted it to be a bit bizarre. So their homage to old-school arcade games won't just be a fun, nostalgic mini-game. Those creatures are going to break through into the funky nightclub where the game happens. Things will get even stranger.
The Black Glove, which is being made by ex-BioShock devs, looks like BioShock's zanier child, but it certainly doesn't play anything like it. For one, no guns. For two, space minotaurs. Three, it's about a surreal trans-dimensional 1920s theatre. It sounds really, really cool. And super weird.
When you look at Booker DeWitt -- star of BioShock Infinite -- on the cover of the game, you see a rugged man of action who won't take no guff from nobody. When you look at his face on this new action figure, you see something else.
The exterior of the Bank of the Prophet in Bioshock Infinites was one of the most memorable parts of the game, and it's just simply incredible in LEGO form.
Well, here's a bit of irony. Check out the logo used by Fox News during a recent interview with Texas Governer Rick Perry about immigration. It sure looks similar to the BioShock Infinite logo, right?
We all know how silly the video game trope of "restore health with food" is, but seeing someone try it in real life is even sillier.
Guys, at this rate we're going to run out of things to make in Minecraft. Add to the pile this recreation of Bioshock Infinite's Columbia. No word on whether you get fired into it from a cannon.
Do you see them? This is exactly why I watch My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
Video: Check out this awesome musical cosplay from PAX East 2014: it's the Barbershop Quartet we see at the start of BioShock Infinite. (via Matthew B)
Somewhere, in some parallel dimension, there's a BioShock Infinite that I liked a lot more than the one I played in this dimension. This week, as I played the second, final episode of Infinite's Burial at Sea expansion, I felt like I got glimpse of that game.
The two "real" bottles of BioShock Infinite vigor we posted about last year were nice, but you know what, these two might be ever nicer.
We already know that there's a connection between the two iconic locales where the Bioshock and BioShock Infinite happen. Turns out all you need to do to go from Columbia to Rapture is flip the light switch off.
Briefly: This screenshot, along with several other nice ones from BioShock Infinite's Burial at Sea add-on, spotted over at Dead End Thrills.
Calen Brait worked on BioShock Infinite for five years as lead modeler. Amongst his other roles, he got to engage in some digital architecture and exterior design.
Programmers don't generally have reels, but we do have blogs. I've been explaining the rendering work I did on BioShock Infinite quite a bit due to recent events, and I thought it made sense to write some of it down. For the bulk of development, I was the only on-site graphics programmer. As Principal Graphics Programmer I did quite a bit of implementation, but also coordinated and tasked any offsite rendering work.
