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"BioShock 2 (360) – $4.00
Crysis 2 (360) – $19.76
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (360, PS3) – $9.50
Crackdown 2 (360) – $10.96
Bulletstorm (PS3) – $12.65
Duke Nukem Forever (PS3) – $10.33
Duke Nukem Forever (360) – $8.91
Solatorobo: Red the Hunter (NDS) – $16.12
Rayman 3D (3DS) – $15.43"
Amazon has begun their “Action Games Day” sale, featuring 85 different games and accessories for the Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, Mac, PC, Playstation 3, PSP and Xbox 360.
"Just up on Newegg.com is a deal that you won’t want to miss. Do you enjoy video games with amazing single player campaigns to keep you busy for hours at a time?
Well, so do the hundreds of thousands of fans of Bioshock and Bioshock 2. Right now at Newegg you can get Bioshock 2 for an incredible price, but you’ll have to read on to see the sale."
The nominations for the 7th British Academy Video Games Awards have been unveiled.
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood and Call of Duty: Black Ops are each up for seven awards including Artistic Achievement, Technical Innovation and Multiplayer, while other big games of 2010 like Super Mario Galaxy 2, Mass Effect 2 and Red Dead: Redemption also appear. Last year, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves won both the most nominations and the most awards.
The awards, hosted by Irish funnyman and Mock the Wee...
Even though the game is perfect as is, a BioShock movie is still on the way. Ken Levine has confirmed that he's working with the filmmakers on bringing the game to theaters.
"Protector Trials is being developed by the core team behind BioShock 2's single-player experience. It contains a series of challenges focused on frantic combat and fast-paced action that are designed to push players' mastery of weapons and Plasmids. The goal is simple, but tough to achieve: players must keep their Little Sister safe from the intense onslaught of Splicers as she gathers ADAM from corpses."
"Bioshock 2 gamers are angry after 2k Games. Many of them could not play the new multiplayer maps they purchased last Week. The Metro Pack, 2nd Dlc for Bioshock 2, arrived last week with 2 other small Dlc after the disaster of the 1st Dlc. Elizabeth Tobey, the senior manager of interactive marketing for 2k Games reported the problem on 2K forums: it is not a glitch but a design choice: 2K has not created a Dlc-only online multiplayer playlist yet."
"2K Games today announced the Rapture Metro Pack, the second installment of post-launch downloadable content for the critically acclaimed BioShock 2, which is now available from both the Xbox LIVE Marketplace and the PlayStation Network."
"2K Games announced the Rapture Metro Pack, the second installment of post-launch downloadable content for BioShock2 is now available on both Xbox LIVE Marketplace for 800 Microsoft Points and PlayStation Network for $11.99."
2K Games has pushed back the release of the upcoming Retro Map Pack DLC for BioShock 2. The pack includes six new maps as well as new achievements as well as giving level 50 characters the option of being 'reborn' to a level 1 character, albeit with a special mask item of some kind. No word yet on a new release date.
The all-day Xbox 360 Gold Box Event has begun on Amazon with BioShock 2 as the Deal of the Day. The retailer also provided hints to the seven upcoming Lightning Deals.
"A new Bioshock 2 Dlc will be released next week: April 29th and will cost 800 points on the XBL which should be around $10.
The Dlc is discrete but is expected to boost the game. It is a generous pack: it features 6 new multiplayer maps, 3 character masks, 3 new Achievements and a melee deathmatch mode. Rapture has never been so generous!"
While most limited or collectors editions games fall in price pretty much from the get go, Bioshock 2 Special Edition has stubbornly been selling for the same retail price everywhere for over a month. Recently, however, Amazon finally discounted PS3 version of Bioshock 2 Special Edition to $73 ($27 off), which is only ~ $20 more than the price for regular game. For Xbox 360 version your best bet is Best Buy that has the game for $69.99. Besides the game, Special Edition Bioshock 2 includes Vi...
"According to 2K Marin's Kent Hudson, there are a few core qualities an enemy character should embody in order for playing a game to be fun. Most important among these is predictability. An enemy can be difficult to beat, but the player needs to be able to learn its movements and adapt to its strategies. Otherwise, attacks are coming out of nowhere and there's no way for the player to anticipate and adapt.
Makes sense. If only the team at 2K Marin had realized this before creating the Big S..."
"Gamers who have paid for the "downloadable content" for BioShock 2 are pretty upset after finding out it's not really downloadable content since it is already on the disc. While many sites have reported their suspicions about the ripoff, users from 2K's official forums are posting proof today."
Icrontic's articulate CB Droege brings us this week's interesting new releases in gaming. Featured this week are Bioshock 2, The Daring Game for Girls, Dante's Inferno, and Blaster Master Overdrive
Until February 9th, Amazon is offering $10 future game credit with pre-order of Bioshock 2 (Xbox 360, PS3, PC), Dante's Inferno (Xbox 360, PS3, PSP), Scene It? Twilight (Nintendo DS) and Super Monkey Ball Step & Roll (Nintendo Wii) . With free shipping, no taxes in most states and already discounted price, this is the cheapest way to order these video games at this moment.
"BioShock was one of the biggest surprises of 2007 and after a four-month delay, 2K Games is finally ready to retrun to Rapture with BioShock 2 this week. The PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 sequel comes from a new developer (2K Marin), but gives gamers the chance to play as the series' iconic Big Daddy."
Could a Bioshock game be coming to the Wii sometime in future? According to 2K Marin's Jordan Thomas, it's a possibility, but nothing is planned for the Wii at the moment.
This is remniscent of the statement that 2K Boston tech director Chris Kline made over a year ago, when he said "I don't think there's anything preventing the game complexity of BioShock from being on the Wii."
"This plush replica looks just like the doll Little Sister is seen carrying in the teaser images for Bioshock 2. Cobbled together from items she found in Rapture, the replica re-creates the look of Big Daddy's baseball head, wire frame cage, corkscrew arm and more. Plush body and rotocast plastic head. This doll stands almost 7" tall, made by NECA. Definitely a creepy and custom-looking production toy.
Shipping to retailers now; will be here in a week or so.
Retail price will be around $24."
"In order to take part in 2K Games, Scan Computers and HMV Gamerbase’s competition, all you need to do is make like you're in Rapture, and hack a PC! Just rock up to the HMV Gamerbase at London's Trocadero Centre, look for the BioShock area, and try your hand. It won't be easy though... you'll need to guess a six-digit code. If you don't succeed, you can always come back the following day and have another crack."
"With less than a week away from 2K Games’ release of the award winning second game in the Bioshock series we have a newly released “Bioshock 2 Official Release Trailer” (see second trailer below) for you, as well as some in-game footage where we explore the beautiful, yet treacherous, underwater world of Rapture.
There we will be fighting off other Big Daddies, taking Little Sisters under our arms, well, on our shoulders, and trying to beat off the new menace, the Big Sisters, and boy, is ..."
"Bioshock 2 is set to release on February 9th in North America on the Xbox 360, PS3, and PC. If you're planning to purchase the PS3 version of the game, you'll be required to install a mandatory 5GB of game data to play the title."
"Action figures based on BioShock 2 are set to launch this week, and Electronic Theatre has today been informed that distribution to retailers began over this past weekend. Set to be available are the Deluxe Big Daddy Action Figure, Deluxe Big Sister Action Figure and the Deluxe Big Sister and Little Sister Action Figure Set, all of which you can see on this very page."
"K Marin has promised Bioshock fans that the second game in the series' multiplayer mode has been carefully thought out - and not "just shoved on".
Speaking to PC Zone in the magazine's latest issue, 2K Marin senior producer Melissa Miller said:
"Multiplayer is a big part of Bioshock 2 and it certainly wasn't something where we thought: 'Oh, let's just shove a multiplayer mode on.'
"We went to a lot of trouble [to ensure] that it was something that would fit properly into the Rapture ..."
Steam has recently released their top 10 sellers for the week of January 17-23rd, and surprisingly the top sellers are actually Pre-Orders. With Mass Effect 2 being released on the 26th of January and being called by Time.com as "the Avatar of video games — except it's better written", it could hardly be surprising.
However Battlefield Bad Company 2 takes the second spot and has only been available for 2 days out of the 7 possible selling days. Although Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 stil...
""You can learn more about the characters of Bioshock 2 in this Characters and Story video."
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Walmart.com significantly expanded the list of soon-to-be-released games that are eligible for the free $10 gift cards with purchase. At this moment the list of games that are available includes Star Trek Online God of War 3, Final Fantasy XIII, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Mass Effect 2, MAG and many more. There are more than dozen games in total that are eligible.
"Gamemakers aren't wasting any time in 2010 and have made the January-February-March quarter a kind of Christmas Part 2 with a wide variety of big releases across all genres and platforms. Dark Void, MAG, Mass Effect 2 and BioShock 2 only scratch the surface of what 2010 has to offer. To dig deeper you can find an expanded list of many of this year's releases right here."
Amazon.com put out an updated list of soon-to-be-released games for which it's giving out free $10 future game credit with purchase. Games eligible include MAG, Mass Effect 2, Bioshock 2, Army of Two: 40th Day, Dante's Inferno and several others.
"Tim Warnock, a matte painter and a concept artist working in the film industry (Watchmen, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I), has posted several gorgeous paintings showing his vision of BioShock's underwater city, alive with flashing neon signs and jutted with skyscrapers.
These shots of Rapture were briefly featured in design company Eyeball's 2007 commercial for the multi-platform first-person shooter. Even though they appear for only a few seconds, paired with Bobby Darin's "..."
"Over the past few months, I have seen a lot of speculation around whether or not we would have a special edition for BioShock 2, and if we did, what would be inside.
This is the announcement many of you have been waiting for: There will be a BioShock 2 Special Edition."
GTTV will be showing BioShock 2 details this Thursday on Spike TV. Gossipgamers also included the promo video for the upcoming show. As a big fan of BioShock this is a show that I can not miss!!
2K Marin concept artist Colin Fix has revealed the final version of the Big Daddy that you will be playing as in Bioshock 2.
Bioshock 2 forum
It's not suprising to be honest. Guitar Hero 5, Forza 3, Need For Speed Shift and a lotta games I missed have been making incentives to buy their games.
Whether it is a exclusive car, a free game or in Bioshocks case, extra multiplayer characters. That's right folks.
"If you Pre-Order Bioshock 2 with an exclusive pre-order deal, Blanche The Actress and Zigo The Fisherman will be unlocked for you. These characters were previously announced and are the first two characters from the multiplayer portion of the game that 2k has revealed."
Recently Bioshock 2 received an impressive advertising event. Letters went out to gaming outlets with coordinates that lead to 9 different beaches around the world. Alongside that there was a time and date of when you should have arrived. Hundreds gathered to these beaches to find hundreds of wine bottles have washed up on shore. The wine bottles have the sweet rapture design on them and some have even been placed on ebay.
"Now, BioShock 2 could very well be pushed into calendar 2010, missing the holidays completely.
Officially, Take-Two blames the delay on the need to "provide additional development time for the title."
Strauss Zelnick, Chairman of Take-Two called the delay "the right decision for the product," but calls the impact on its revised financial outlook a "disappointment.""
"After trying to get the 7" vinyl to work on our iPhones, Zunes, and PlayStation 3s, we finally got our hands on a record player. So what secrets lie within the grooves of the phonograph? Side A contained an anthem for Rapture, an uplifting number you might hear before a ball game... if that was the kind of thing they did underwater.
The B-side was mostly the same, a repeat of the anthem... to a point. As the music crackles and fades out, a little girls voice comes in, calling out for her ..."
"Yesterday we received copies of a 7" vinyl record from "Rapture Records." The labels and sleeve featured the familiar art deco typeface of BioShock but contain no information beyond that. Thankfully, certain members of our staff live firmly in the past and we've now listened to and transcribed the contents of the wax disc. As may be expected, clues to the upcoming game are hidden within the grooves."
More bad news for the fans eagerly awaiting the "Bioshock" film adaptation. It seems as though Gore Verbinski is frustrated with all of the hold-ups of the movies he has been working on latley... It is also quite possible that the Bioshock movie might be dropped completley. If this occurs, then maybe Rapture might finally be built by the P.O'ed fans, and wage war against the Movie Industry.
Bioshock 2 is set to blow away the gaming industry again, just like the first game. Now the game has a solid release date. It will come out for Europe a few days earlier then for North Americans. October 30th is the date for Europe and November 3rd for North Americans.
Bioshock 2 is still in production, but the makers are already discussing the possibility of a Bioshock 3. 2K Marin's creative director, Jordan Thomas, has recently revealed that the setting for Bioshock 3 might once again be Rapture.
"I absolutely believe that there might be future games set in Rapture in whatever time period," he said.
Who doesn't love Bioshock? Swing by and have a look at 7 little facts you may or may not know about the hit series, ranging from how the Little Sisters were created in all of their creepy glory, to the sympathy the staff felt at people's disappointment of the final boss fight.
The Bioshock movie has been in pre-production for some time now, with even Gore Verbinski, the man behind Pirates of the Caribbean acting as director. However the movie has recently encountered a hitch in the form of Universal halting production, apparently trying to find ways to decrease the film's expected $160 million budget. This doesn't look like it will permanently derail the movie, already alternatives are being found (like moving the filming to London) but things are definitely up in ...
There are pre-E3 events going on and our teams at 1UP and UGO have been attending meetings, parties and demo sessions getting all the pre-event dirt. During a meeting last week, our very own Chris Plante was provided with yet anotherBioshock 2 mystery - Big Sister is not the central villain.
"Bioshock 2, previously dubbed Bioshock 2: Sea of Dreams is due to launch in Q4 2009, and is possibly my second most anticipated sequel sat beside God of War III. The first game literally blew my mind, from the unique and diverse gameplay, to the grim setting and peerless storytelling of the legend Andrew Ryan. It just leave me amazed either, it also left me with thousands of questions despite picking up nearly every audio tape and extensive wiki research.
When Bioshock 2 was announced afte..."
A 2K forum moderator has translated German magazines PC Games and Play3, revealing a lot of new info, as well as detailing a gameplay presentation of Bioshock 2. The facial animation is apparently a lot better, Tannenbaum is set to return, the Big Sister will change over the course of the game and much, much more. The presentation is summarized below.
Looks like 2K are certainly not the most coherent developers out there. It was stated here that Bioshock 2 would not have a subtitle, only for another developer to deny that just a few days later here. Now they've backflipped again in a interview with IGN, claiming Sea of Dreams was the title of the original teaser trailer only.
Contary to earlier reports, 2K's BioShock sequel will retain its subtitle 'Sea of Dreams'. It would seem their Community Manager Elizabeth Tobey is misinformed, though perhaps they were considering dropping the name.
"We asked publisher 2K Games for clarification and heard from Community Manager Elizabeth Tobey, who had this to say:
“You won’t be seeing ‘Sea of Dreams’ moving forward, just ‘BioShock 2.’”
There it is. Just BioShock 2."
You may have gotten to play a small section of the original Bioshock, but according to Game Informer in Bioshock 2 you'll spend the entire game as one! You get your own Little Sister to protect and help harvest, there is a mulitplayer mode confirmed and apparently you can get jumped by the Big Sister at any time in the game, it occurring when you kill too many too Big Daddies.
"Rumours on the internet claim that Microsoft has been gunning for another timed exclusive with the sequel, fueled by a recent release schedule from 2K that listed the game's platform as TBA.
A 2K rep has however confirmed to CVG that the game is definitely coming to Sony's console, although we're awaiting word back on whether or not the game will be a timed exclusive like the original, which released on 360 over a year before the PS3."
"Game Informer's April cover confirms what Kotaku readers already knew: Big Sister will greet gamers when they land in BioShock 2's Rapture later this year.
The cover shows off the new creature, which we described as an amazonian version of the Big Daddy, wearing similar, though svelter, gear. The image depicts a Little Sister riding on the back of the Big Sister in a sort of papoose cage."
Bioshock 2 has now gotten its very own viral site, the site can be found at http://www.somethinginthesea.com/ on the site can be found an article about a girl who has been kidnapped and a picture of a strange looking creature.
A good guess would be that this site will be getting updated regularly.
"For Bioshock, because its so story driven, the question obviously arises: how long can you do it without turning into The Matrix? The first Matrix was great, the second one was weird and the third one, you thought: Who [making this] is on crack and who isnt?. But, then again, look at Star Wars. Its a fight between good and evil, just like Bioshock. If we spin it the right way and get the right twist of innovation, we can make six parts of it, as Star Wars did.
But we have to be car..."
"Publisher Take-Two Interactive is planning to release BioShock 2 in 2009. Addressing the company's financial results in an open statement, Take-Two Chief Executive Officer Ben Feder said, "We're excited about our 2009 pipeline, which will include [many titles]
as well as new offerings from such powerful franchises as BioShock, Mafia and the 2K Sports roster.
BioShock 2, subtitled "Sea of Dream" was revealed in October through the PlayStation 3 ending of the original game; however, no platf..."
2K Games has announced that their upcoming sequel Bioshock 2: Sea of Dreams will be available for PC, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 when the title hits sometime late 2009.
A teaser trailer for Bioshock 2: Sea of Dreams was shown on the PS3 version of the game. And now Charles Shechbeck, one of the developers of the title, has come forward to add a little more fuel to the fire. The game is confusingly described as a prequel and a sequel at the same time and apparently the replica of Rapture is meant to represent something significant. Or perhaps not, there is a lot of vagueness there, as normal with a newly announced title.
"Bronze rewards will be dished out for researching, modifying weapons, hacking and crafting, with each skill apparently "loaded" with awards. You could find yourself up to "your armpits in prizes", said Finley.
Silver Trophies will be more rare. The one example used was the historian award, given to those who find all the audio diaries in Rapture. They reveal lots of back-story behind events unfolding during the game and it's worth doing anyway, we reckon.
Meanwhile, gold Trophies are fo..."
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