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During Take-Two Interactive’s quarterly financial report it was revealed that the original Bioshock has now sold over 4 million units, with recent sales driven by both the release of the sequel, Bioshock 2, and digital download promotions for both games.
Take-Two Interactive CEO Ben Feder commented that the franchise has now sold a combined seven million units, as Bioshock 2 has so far shipped three million copies worldwide.
Catalogue sales of Bioshock, Feder said, were affected by Bioshock 2:
Major Nelson has been kind enough to let us keen Xbox gamers know what we can expect to find on the ole’ Xbox LIVE for the next few weeks of January, including Xbox LIVE Arcade games, Games on Demand, and Deals of the Week.
Also included are tip-offs on some price reductions, (as of yesterday) on some current generation games that you may just find quite intriguing, and some information for Xbox LIVE Silver members.
Get the full list below:
[Update] OK, the Irrational website has gone live for realz. Enjoy. [End of Update]
Late last week it was announced that 2K Boston (Bioshock) would be rightfully reverting to their previous name of Irrational Games, and with that news, a countdown clock went up on their website, ticking down to a time when we would be able to take an extended peek behind the curtain at the studio, as the developers there revealed information about past projects and current goings-on.
Irrational Games, a studio of trail blazing developers known for titles such as System Shock 2, Freedom Force and Bioshock, will soon reclaim that name after they were (somewhat confusingly) renamed 2K Boston during the development of Bioshock, and the company’s subsequent acquisition by 2K Games/Take-Two Interactive.
Super talented prop designer and creator, Harrison Krix, is once again in the spotlight for his amazing game-related props as he and his fiancée run around the walkways of an aquarium in their amazing Bioshock costumes, now in a setting to equal the first reveal of their outfits earlier this year.
The location is absolutely perfect and matches up wonderfully with the underwater city of Rapture featured in the game, creating a similar vibe to what players of Bioshock may have felt while roaming the halls of the dystopian city.
Harrison Krix has done it again. Not content transforming some of videogaming’s most recognisable in-game items into amazing real-life, authentic props (such as his Portal gun and Bioshock Little Sister Syringe), he’s gone and created a real-life Big Daddy costume that’s as authentic and detailed as they come, while featuring a working drill!
The Big Daddy is, of course, one of the main antagonists found in the underwater dystopia of Bioshock, and a formidable foe at the best of times. Luckily, in real-life at least, someone as clever as Krix is helming the beast, so bloodshed and gore aren’t really priorities for the professional prop maker.
Krix has kindly put up a step-by-step guide for the creation process of his latest prop, which he says took seven weeks to build, although he claims that the suit isn’t “up to [his] standards” just yet, and isn’t 100% complete. Wow, take it easy guy!
Check out a larger pic of the real-life Big Daddy behemoth below, as well as a quick video showing the working drill in action:
Two new games have appeared on Xbox LIVE’s Games on Demand service, namely the excellent first-person action adventure game, Bioshock, as well as the military strategy/nation building game, Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution.
What experiences await us?
Kotaku have posted up pics of an enormous piece of art created by professional illustrator Eric Maruscak, commissioned by Bioshock publishers 2K Games to be completed during PAX 2009.
Maruscak began drawing the piece during the opening hours of PAX on Friday (September 4th) this year, and spent 26+ hours working on it. Now that PAX 2009 is over, the piece has been sent to 2K Games, probably to be used as an awesome display at 2K Marin (developers of Bioshock 2) or simply to impress people at 2K headquarters.
Shift your eyes below to see a work-in-progress snapshot of the piece, featuring an almost life-size Big Daddy:
According to a Variety report, the currently on-hold Bioshock movie has recently had a new director attached to the project as previous director, Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean) steps down, although he will still remain on the project as a producer.
Relative newcomer to Hollywood, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, director and writer on zombie movie 28 Weeks Later (the sequel to 28 Days Later), has been named as the new director of the movie adaptation of Take-Two’s underwater adventure FPS.
In an interview with Develop, creative director behind the development of Epic’s Gears of War series, Cliff Bleszinski, has revealed his thoughts on where the future of shooters may lie, and it may or may not surprise you what those thoughts are. Bleszinski said:
“I had a conversation with Harvey Smith – one of the lead designers on Deus Ex – and said to him the future of shooters is RPGs. He said he completely agreed.”
Bleszinski has long been a fan of the critical and commercial smash hit, Bioshock, (“There was a time when the industry warmed down, and then Bioshock came along,” says Bleszinski) which incorporated both first-person shooting action with an RPG-lite system to mix up the gameplay.
The Bioshock/Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion game bundle that was announced for the US yesterday has been revealed to be releasing in the UK on July 10th, a few days after the pack’s release in the US.
On the Xbox 360, it’ll set you back £29.99, and on the PC it’ll cost £19.99. That is all.
2K Games and Bethesda Softworks have teamed up together to announce a new game bundle featuring two star games (one from each company) in one package, as Bioshock and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion have been taped together to form a new bundle.
Imaginatively called the BioShock & The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Bundle, the package will be available at retailers in the US starting July 7th for (an SRP of) $39.99 for the Xbox 360 version, and $29.99 for the PC version. Neither a PS3 version, or a release in European territories, has been announced.
Over the course of the Game Developers Conference last week, Epic were showcasing the additions and improvements they’ve been working on for the latest iteration of their Unreal Engine 3 technology.
The new features of the technology (which has powered heavy hitters such as Gears of War 1 and 2, Bioshock, 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand and many, many others) can now be seen in the video below, unveiling version 3 of Unreal Engine 3:
After generously giving the original Bioshock art book away for free online, as an accompaniment for the game, 2K are now taking pre-orders for the overhauled version of the same book, now entitled Bioshock: Breaking the Mold – Developer’s Edition.
The book will cost you $24.99 and includes commentary about the game’s evolutionary journey throughout the years of its development, as well as a few new sections
The 174 page soft cover book will be available exclusively through 2K’s online store, and those of you that pre-order the book will receive free shipping anywhere in the world.
Head over here to 2K’s store to glimpse some more pages from the Bioshock: Breaking the Mold – Developer’s Edition art book, or head over here to pre-order.
From the creator of the replica Portal gun comes another videogame replica – the syringe as seen in Bioshock, and as used by the creepy Little Sisters.
Harrison Krix, the creator of the replica, says on his blog; “The Little Sisters from Bioshock are among the creepiest characters I’ve ever seen in a videogame. Their syringes, used for extracting ADAM are even moreso, with vials of genetic material in a glass that the sisters suck from dead bodies, then drink. ugh.”
Krix then goes on to detail the creation process of the syringe, involving a 1926 brass gasoline pump, LEDs, hairgel, and a baby bottle nipple.
You can check out Krix’s creation process of the Bioshock syringe at his blog over here.
Source: Escapist
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