Kotaku: Irrational

Is a Man not Entitled to a PC Casemod Based On BioShock?

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 05:30:00 EDT

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Hungarian BioShock fan Gregory Mórocz wanted to build himself a new PC, so he built himself a new BioShock-flavoured PC. Look at it. Isn't it wonderful? More »

Make Your House Look Like Rapture With These Awesome Posters

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 04:30:00 EDT

Artist Stefan Petit has spent the last six months working on a pet project: recreate all the posters featured on the walls of Rapture, the decaying city-state featured in 2007 shooter BioShock. He's now done! More »

The Cost of One Man's Irrational Fear of Turn Based Role-Playing

Mike Fahey — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 11:20:00 EDT

Commenter Mudson has spent his life in fear of the glory that is turn based role-playing games. Now he's overcome that silly fear and wants to know what he's been missing in today's Speak Up on Kotaku. More »

Take a Tour of BioShock Infinite's Thrill Ride in the Sky

Owen Good — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:00:00 EDT

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Watching the BioShock Infinite demonstration at E3, I formed the mistaken impression that the thrill-ride skylines of Columbia had, within the game's story, always been intended as a primary mode of personal transportation. They aren't, as Irrational Games' Ken Levine explains in this four-minute video featuring lots of gameplay. More »

Irrational Sheds Unique Identity

Mike Fahey — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:20:00 EDT

Take-Two today announces the name change of highly recognizeable and respected studio Irrational Games, rechristening the Boston and Canberra offices as 2K Boston and 2K Australia respectively. Why the hell take such a prominent name n the gaming industry and change it into a faceless clone?

"Irrational Games is widely recognized as one of the most innovative development studios in the world," said Christoph Hartmann, President of 2K. "Following their incredible efforts in bringing BioShock to life, we are proud to make the newly renamed Irrational Games studios a cornerstone of our game development family."

One of us. One of us. So they are being rewarded with total assimilation. More »

BioShock Water Porn, Q&A

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:20:17 EDT

That BioShock's water is so gorgeous and so obviously instrumental to the game's environment it deserved its own editorial feature is pretty telling. Watching the just released videos of Irrational Games' water effect may make you want to towel off, but the 14-question interview with Stephan Alexander, FX Artist, and Jesse Johnson, Graphics Programmer is so dry it should do the job. More »

Ken Levine Shows Everyone BioShock

kotaku.com — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 07:00:38 EDT

If you still remain unconvinced that Bioshock is going to be one of the best games of 2007, set aside fifteen minutes and watch this video as Irrational's Ken Levine leads us through one of Bioshock's sub-aqueous Art Deco levels. More »

Another Couple of Bioshock Screens

kotaku.com — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:40:06 EDT

I'm just stealing these Bioshock screenshots right from Gay Gamer. Why? Fruit Brute owes me for his lies. When I closed my eyes, it wasn't just like being with a woman. More »

New Bioshock Screens

kotaku.com — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 09:00:18 EDT

I generally dislike posting screenshots — there's a dozen sites out there that do it, and better — but when it's Bioshock, and one of the images involves shooting a small child with a Magnum, they simply have to go up, if only to elicit another flirty email from Jack Thompson, who — like many of you — mistakes my fruity name for that of a woman and recently sent "Miss Eckhardt" an invitation to meet up with him during his local College Tour. I wonder what he had in mind! Also, if explicit knowledge of my scrotal sack would change his intentions in the slightest. More »

Who Were The Prostitutes In System Shock 2?

kotaku.com — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:40:10 EDT

SHTUP is a community project to update all of System Shock 2's textures with highly-faithful, community-produced high-res duplicates. It's a cool mod — along with a mod that dramatically upgrades the models, I replayed System Shock 2 about a year ago and my retinas hardly detached at all. More »

Ken Levine on Bioshock Morality

brownlee — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 11:40:44 EDT

Ken Levine, the smartest writer in video games, gave an interview to Through the Looking Glass fansite SShock2.com about Irrational's upcoming "art deco underwater utopia participant-evolution inspired civil war" survival horror FPS, Bioshock. Subjects cover the evolution of Bioshock's story, art deco game design, the themes of horror in games, and morality in gaming. More »

Irrational Games is Hiring

Brian Crecente — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 17:00:56 EDT

Irrational Games is hiring for a bunch of new positions including a community manager. They also have a bunch of other openings, including some in Australia. Hotness! More »

Rumor: System Shock 3 In The Works

brownlee — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:40:03 EDT

There is a rumor floating around, supposedly to be found in Game Informer magazine's latest 'Loose Talk' column, that System Shock 3 is in the works by EA. More »

Irrational Hiring For (Pretty Please) System Shock 3?

brownlee — Tue, 30 May 2006 11:40:49 EDT

The post itself is missing now, the perfect employee perhaps having been found, but Irrational had one of those annoyingly vague job postings up on the company site, insinuating a sequel to one of the "best loved PC franchises of all time:" More »

First Official BioShock Screenshot

brownlee — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:40:59 EDT

We're big System Shock 2 fans, so of course we simply had to paste up the first official screenshot from Irrational's upcoming System-Shock-Meets-World-War II-Or-Something spiritual successor, Bioshock. More »

Land of the Lost

kotaku.com — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 18:40:00 EDT

FiringSquad has tracked down the fate of long-planned action-horror game The Lost, which is apparently not dead yet. Hopefully by the time it hits the shelves the quality of the graphics will be a little more Half-Life 2 and a little less Soul Reaver 2. More »

Take-Two Gets Irrational

lsmith — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 16:40:17 EST

Delivered via singing telegram came the news that Irrational Games, the folks behind System Shock 2 and Freedom Force, was purchased by Take-Two Interactive. With the acquisition, Take-Two nets publishing rights to BioShock and FPS RPG (Deus Ex, anyone?). It will be published under the 2k Games label. More »