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Saturday1st Dec 2012
News BioShock Infinite's Box Art Looks Really Bland
Cry for Columbia
There’s been a lot of talk about bad box art over the past couple of weeks, which makes the arrival of BioShock Infinite’s final cover timely to say the least. The wrapper – which leads prominently with protagonist Booker DeWitt – shows the lead character pouting with a shotgun nestled on his shoulder. There’s also a blimp...
Monday26th Nov 2012
News You'll Need to Explore BioShock Infinite on Your Own
Disconnected
Despite rumours to the contrary, BioShock Infinite will not feature a multiplayer component. Responding to a fan request on Twitter, series creator Ken Levine confirmed that the game will provide a solitary experience, just like the first title in the series. BioShock 2 controversially added multiplayer modes, which were designed by...
Monday22nd Oct 2012
News BioShock Infinite Pre-Orders Secure Industrial Revolution Puzzle Game
Cross promotion
If you pre-order BioShock Infinite at a participating retailer, you’ll receive two games for your trouble. Alongside the main PlayStation 3 release, you’ll also scoop an invite to try out a standalone PC puzzle title called BioShock Infinite: Industrial Revolution. The browser-based game – developed by indie outfit Lazy 8...
Sunday21st Oct 2012
News New BioShock Infinite Trailer Should Put Your Concerns to Rest
Jaw dropping
If BioShock Infinite has had a troubled development, then this trailer sure makes all of the sweat and tears look worthwhile. As promised, developer Irrational Games has released the first footage of the first-person adventure in months – and it looks absolutely incredible. Throughout the 90-second short you’ll glimpse intense...
Thursday18th Oct 2012
News BioShock Infinite's Ultimate Songbird Edition Demands Your Attention
Humdinger
There’s nothing particularly original about this enormous BioShock Infinite collector’s edition, but it still somehow manages to look incredible. The premium bundle – entitled the Ultimate Songbird Edition – includes an amazing statue designed by Irrational Games’ concept artist Robb Waters, who previously brought characters such...
Tuesday16th Oct 2012
News More BioShock Infinite Developers Depart on Sky-Lines
Job done?
That brand new BioShock Infinite trailer can’t come soon enough. Following rumours of a troubled development, a further two Irrational Games employees have departed the company. Both combat designer Clint Bundrick and AI lead Don Norbury have parted ways with the project, according to
Wednesday10th Oct 2012
News BioShock Infinite Sets Sail Again Next Week
Columbia beckons
After a lengthy hiatus, BioShock Infinite is finally ready to step back into the limelight. Publisher 2K Games has casually updated the title’s official Facebook page, teasing the imminent arrival of a brand new trailer. Better yet, if you participate in a spot of viral marketing for the company, you’ll be able to help select...
Wednesday9th May 2012
News BioShock Infinite Delayed Until 26th February 2013
Making the way for GTA?
Irrational Games has pushed back the release of BioShock Infinite until 26th February, 2013. The massively anticipated first-person adventure had originally been scheduled to release in October, but the game will unfortunately miss that date. In a frank exchange with fans, Irrational Games gaffer Ken Levine said: When we...
Friday27th Apr 2012
News Irrational Games Focusing on BioShock Infinite, Not Vita
Nothing to say
When Ken Levine announced BioShock Vita at Sony’s E3 press conference last year, it was clear that the project was nothing but an idea. Fast-forward a year and not much has changed, with Levine’s studio, Irrational Games, opting to focus its attention on the upcoming BioShock Infinite. In an interview with Wired, the studio lead...
Tuesday27th Mar 2012
News The Siren Screams into BioShock Infinite
Certainly not that kind of siren
Irrational Games has lifted the lid on BioShock Infinite’s final Heavy Hitter. Named the Siren, the spiritual performer possesses the ability to bring back the dead. Creative director Ken Levine explains that the real challenge in battle is deciding whether to focus on the Siren itself, or its resurrected puppets...
Tuesday20th Mar 2012
News BioShock Infinite's "Boys of Silence" Are Surprisingly Loud
Frightening, too
Of all the Heavy Hitters developer Irrational Games has revealed for BioShock Infinite, the so-called “Boys of Silence” are by far the most terrifying. Look, we don’t particularly fancy coming up against a mechanical George Washington either, but we’d prefer it to one of these faceless menaces. We'll be having nightmares...
News There's a Lot of Dialogue in BioShock Infinite
Chatterbox
The original BioShock was a fairly chatty game, but the upcoming BioShock Infinite is poised to puts its predecessor to shame. Series creator Ken Levine has revealed that there is “three or four times” more scripting in a single level of Infinite than in the entirety of the original game combined. That leaves a lot of room to say...
Wednesday14th Mar 2012
News Meet BioShock Infinite's Handyman
Tool up
BioShock Infinite is set in a completely different world to the original title, so naturally there are no Big Daddies or Little Sisters. Instead there are Heavy Hitters, of which we’ve already been introduced to one: the Motorized Patriot. Now Irrational Games has raised the curtain on the game’s second heavy hitter, known as the...
Monday12th Mar 2012
News BioShock Infinite Motion Support Moving Forward
Day and date
Irrational Games’ fascinating gaffer Ken Levine has confirmed that BioShock Infinite’s vaunted PlayStation Move support will be available day and date with the game’s release. The developer has been pretty quiet about the feature since it was confirmed at E3 last year, but Ken Levine told Eurogamer.net that the reason for the...
Thursday8th Mar 2012
News BioShock Infinite Introduces Motorized Patriot
Be afraid
BioShock had the Big Daddies. BioShock 2 had the Big Sisters. Thus it’s only natural that BioShock Infinite should have a fearless enemy type of its own. That part is to be played by the Motorized Patriot, a clockwork porcelain interpretation of George Washington armed with a Gatling gun and a haunting stare. You can learn more about the...
Thursday1st Mar 2012
News BioShock Infinite Invades UK on 19th October
Pie in the sky
2K’s announced that Irrational Games’ hotly anticipated BioShock follow-up, BioShock Infinite, will launch in North America on the 16th October. Europe will have to wait just a few additional days for the first-person shooter, when it releases overseas on the 19th October. Creative director Ken Levine said: After BioShock, we had...
Monday19th Dec 2011
News Behind the Scenes with BioShock Infinite's Voice Actors: Part 2
Further down the rabbit hole
A while back we got a chance to go behind the scenes with the voices behind BioShock Infinite's Booker DeWitt and Elizabeth in the first instalment of Irrational Games' two-part video blog series. The studio has now unleashed the second part of the series and the results inside are quite shocking, but we’ll let the...
Thursday10th Nov 2011
News Ken Levine: "We Can't Wait to Show Off BioShock Move"
To infinity
Next year's BioShock Infinite is right up there on our list of four must-have Move games for the future, and Irrational Games' Ken Levine seems pleased with how it's coming together. In an interview on the PlayStation Blog, Levine reveals that the studio is itching to show off its progress so far: We’
Tuesday8th Nov 2011
News Sony Promising Special Move Add-On for BioShock
Here's hoping for an arm drill
If you were excited about BioShock Infinite before, prepare for new heights of anticipation. Sony has revealed the game will launch alongside an exclusive, as-yet secret PlayStation Move peripheral. According to Sony, it will "drawn you even deeper into the stunning vision of a parallel future", which could...
Saturday29th Oct 2011
News Go Behind the Scenes with BioShock Infinite's Voice Actors
Digging in a bit deeper
It’s sadly been a while since we’ve had the chance to bring you anything news related to BioShock Infinite, but thankfully that's just came to an abrupt end. Irrational Games just released a new video that takes us deeper into the main characters of the game: Booker DeWitt and Elizabeth. Irrational Games' Creative...
Tuesday20th Sep 2011
News BioShock Infinite TGS 2011 Teaser Trailer
In Japanese too!
As fans of the original BioShock, it’s not hard for us to get excited about any new titbit we can rummage up about the upcoming BioShock Infinite. With each new trailer that Irrational Games releases, it seems that the game just continues to look better and better, and this can be said once again from this new trailer from TGS...
Wednesday10th Aug 2011
News Ken Levine Praises Killzone 3's Move Controls
Reach for the sky
We don't know too much about how BioShock Infinite will use PlayStation Move, but Irrational Games head guy Ken Levine is certainly impressed with how the controller has been implemented in flagship shooter Killzone 3. A recent PlayStation Blog post featured a video interview with Levine, and though he didn't give away any...
Monday11th Jul 2011
News 15 Glorious Minutes of BioShock Infinite Await
What are you waiting for?
There's no bigger third-party Move game than BioShock Infinite, and here's 15 minutes of video from Irrational Games' heavenly-looking shooter. We've not seen much of the game's PlayStation Move controls yet, but if they can live up to the quality currently demonstrated by the rest of the game it'll be happy days indeed...
Monday27th Jun 2011
News Tear Deeper Into Columbia in BioShock Infinite
Tearing the worlds apart
Maybe it was the way that Rapture gripped us from beginning to end in the original BioShock, or maybe it was the way the game created such a surreal alternate lifestyle in the underwater city that it almost seemed like it could actually be lying in wait somewhere in the ocean depths. Today we grasp at every morsel of...
Tuesday7th Jun 2011
News Bioshock Infinite Includes PlayStation Move Support
Ready to Rapture?
Ken Levine is the mastermind behind the world heralded by gamers across the world known simply as ‘Rapture’ in the BioShock series. Stepping into the dark undersea city of Rapture for the first time was truly a moment that we’ll never forget; inhabitant’s that utilise strange powers, Big Daddies and Little Sisters,...
