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Comic book artist Alex Garner had so much fun with his Portal 2 fan piece that he decided to do his own take on upcoming game BioShock: Infinite. More »
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When you first spin up BioShock Infinite later this year don't expect to see the recently-announced retro-difficult 1999 mode on the main menu. That's because it's so tough Ken Levine doesn't want "the non old-school, hardcore gamer" stumbling into it. More »
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Today's gamers crave choice. Choice in how they progress through a game; choice on how they develop their character. The gamers of 13 years ago needed not these things, which is why Irrational Games is including the punishing 1999 Mode in BioShock Infinite. More »
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The upcoming BioShock: Infinite has a new trailer. It's for the VGA Awards. This is it. More »
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It's a tease for the game's new trailer, to be shown at the VGAs next week. More »
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Pulling off a good Little Sister cosplay is tough! Go too far one way and you'll look creepy, go too far the other way and you'll try and look sexy and end up being even creepier. This one, though, nails it. More »
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Over at the Irrational Games' Blog, the BioShock Infinite developer has posted concept art and documents from an old, abandoned game called Dungeon Duel. The game had made it all the way to development back in 2002, based off of a pitch that described it as a "fast-paced RTS strategy with the addictiveness of card game trading in a unique fantasy setting–a true RTS game built specifically with consoles and their controllers in mind." More »
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A night of magic, of Thuggish Splicers, Little Sisters, Big Daddies and men who you wouldn't think twice about beating beyond recognition with a nine iron. It was a major BioShock photo op at Dragon*Con's Night at the Georgia Aquarium. More »
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Let's watch how one of the in-game scenes from BioShock Infinite was made, from storyboards to final version, shall we? Your narrator is BioShock creative director Ken Levine. More »
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At PAX 2011 today, Irrational Games and the two lead actors in BioShock: Infinite gave us another good look at what goes into the voice acting of parts in a virtual medium that has such a complicated story. More »
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Ken Levine, the mind behind BioShock will anchor a panel alongside Troy Baker and Courtney Draper., the two lead voice actors in BioShock Infinite, beginning momentarily at PAX 2011. Won't you join Kotaku's Stephen Totilo as he liveblogs the discussion? There's bound to be news on one of 2012's most anticipated games. More »
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Just about any new Bioshock Infinite news is good Bioshock Infinite news. Today the fine ladies and gents over at Irrational Games released four new screens—two are different, provocative angles on what we've seen before, and two are new. More »
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Ken Levine and Irrational Games are going to get all weird on you with the next BioShock game—not BioShock Infinite, the one after that, the one coming to Sony's new PlayStation Vita at some point. More »
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It wasn't shown to the public at the time, but at E3 last month there was a BioShock Infinite demo that blew people's socks off. You may now watch that demonstration. More »
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Irrational Games has been slowly drip-feeding us portions of its behind closed doors, 14-minute-long E3 2011 demonstration of BioShock Infinite, a preview that helped the game secure the Game Critics' "Best of Show" and "Best Action/Adventure Game" awards. Soon, you'll be able to see it in its entirety. More »
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One of the most intriguing components of BioShock Infinite, just one of the reasons why the game was nominated "Best of Show" at E3 2011 by critics, was the gameplay concept of tears, the rifts in space-time that can be controlled by your sidekick Elizabeth. More »
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Ali Miller with Irrational Games' NECA-made Sky-Hook prototype, which she won this month as part of a random giveaway. Don't worry NECA will be selling them one day too. More »
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I recently rearranged my life so I could see two important video games: BioShock Infinite and Skyrim. They are two games for which you should rearrange your life—or at least your Thursday in early June. More »
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This is, basically, a multistage BioShock playset, in LEGO spanning the game's opening plane crash, to the lighthouse and to the Medical Pavilion and beyond. It is fantastic, the work of Imagine Rigney at MOCpages, built for Chicago's Brickworld 2011 expo and noticed today by the gang at Irrational Games. There are many, many more pictures and closeups at the link. More »
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One of the big brains behind next year's BioShock Infinite walks us through the back story of this layered, alternate history shooter, another chance to (at the very least) see more footage of this exciting BioShock spin-off. More »
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Here's BioShock Infinite's E3 trailer. So much colour! And explosions! And great heights! More »
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Irrational boss Ken Levine just revealed that an all-new game set in the BioShock universe will be coming to the PlayStation Vita. No other details than that at this time, sorry! More »
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BioShock Infinite isn't coming out until next year. That's a pity, because the people who are making BioShock Infinite keep telling us interesting things about the game. They keep showing us interesting things about the game. Now they're sharing these new pieces of artwork—ads and propaganda from within the 1912 world of the game. And yet we all can't play BioShock Infinite until next year. Too bad. This stuff sure looks cool. More »
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Please, don't write off the dazzling BioShock Infinite as simply BioShock in the sky. Yes, it has plasmid-like superpowers ("vigors") and an impossible retro sci-fi dystopia, but this is a BioShock that greatly contrasts with the one Ken Levine and Irrational Games created four years ago. More »
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There's a giant mechanical bird to escape, a young lady to escort, riotous mobs to skirt, rails to clamp to and swing from through a floating city. More »
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"I'm sorry. I never should have left. I never should have left. Take me back. Take me back. Take me home... please." More »
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At PAX East today, the makers of BioShock Infinite, the big 2012 sequel from Irrational Games, shared what they said would be their cutting-room-floor material. They showed what won't go into BioShock Infinite, but that will help shape the game. Of course, their cutting room floor material is fascinating. So stop looking at this already-released art and flip to the new stuff... More »
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The Boston edition of the Penny Arcade Expo kicks off this Friday, and we'll be there. So too will BioShock creators Irrational Games, who will be hosting an interesting panel (and handing out free stuff). More »
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PlayStation 3 owners may still feel the sting of the original BioShock being an Xbox 360 "exclusive," then eventually getting a port of the game from another developer a year later. Don't expect similar treatment for BioShock Infinite. More »
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Joking that women "love two things in life, queso dip and true crime," Epic Games' Cliff Bleszinski told a podcast that he felt Heavy Rain missed out on bigger sales by not marketing itself more to the fairer sex. More »
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Continuing their welcome tradition of showing us games they never actually made, Irrational has this week lifted the veil on Monster Island, a title the BioShock developers never finished (though we wish they had). More »
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Irrational Games, the people behind the BioShock in the sky coming in 2012, have released four new screens of the upcoming BioShock Infinite that might feel a tad familiar. You've seen these people, place and things before, but not from these angles. More »
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If you watched the ten minute-long dose of BioShock Infinite gameplay, you might have wondered how the rollercoaster-in-the-sky action sequences were going to work, what those tracks were for and how BioShock creative director Ken Levine might describe them. More »
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Previously shown only to press behind closed doors, 2K has let slip nearly ten minutes of mind-blowing, vertigo-inducing gameplay footage from BioShock Infinite. You might want to have an air sickness bag at the ready. More »
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Being the focus of a floating citywide conflict and getting constant high altitude nosebleeds is reason enough for Elizabeth here to be sad, but you shouldn't be, because you've got five gorgeous new BioShock Infinite screens to look at. More »
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Most of GameTrailers TV's production last night was devoted to Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2. Tucked within that was a 30 second preview of gameplay in BioShock Infinite. It's at 14:00 of the video embedded here. More »
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BioShock Infinite looked pretty great from what we saw in its cinematic trailer. Now let's now see how the in-game shots stand up. More »
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If you liked the BioShock Infinite trailer, check out the season finale of Irrational Behavior, the in-house podcast of the studio behind the next game. More »
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If BioShock Infinite debuts with a gameplay demo and a trailer that includes no Little Sisters, no Rapture, no — so far — apparent storyline connection to earlier BioShocks, is it really a BioShock game? Yes, its creator told Kotaku. More »
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The trailer teased a return to the underwater failed Utopia of Rapture, first seen in 2007's BioShock. But last night, we saw BioShock Infinite in action, a live demo. This next big thing from Ken Levine's Irrational Games is something different. More »
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