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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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Some of gaming's most cunning foes have been computers. Think GlaDOS from Portal, or Shodan from System Shock 2. At least part of what makes them so memorable is that their artificial intelligence is brought to life by a cold, calculating, female voice. More »
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Irrational Games, creators of BioShock, uncovered a long-lost treasure the other day: a sketchbook, full of concept art for the game that got the studio rolling, System Shock 2. More »
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Totally subjective question, of course, but movie mag Empire decided to try and answer anyway, its writers nutting out who they thought were the greatest video game characters of all time. The winner? It wasn't Mario. More »
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Widely acclaimed when it released in 1999, System Shock 2's cinematic conclusion nonetheless disappointed Irrational Games creative chief Ken Levine. The reason: The video that was shot wasn't anything like what he had scripted. More »
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BioShock was a big hit. But, the way lead programmer Chris Kline sees it, the game should've been a MISERABLE FAILURE. BioShock was first planned in early 2002 when its developer, the then Irrational Games, decided it needed a big AAA title. The idea was to make a System Shock 2 clone, but development on the game stopped for about two years. "The very first failure," recalls Kline, "was that we wanted to base this whole thing on System Shock 2. After a couple false starts, it wasn't until the E3 2006 demo that the team really had to think about things like making the game work and creating a "compelling user experience." Kline adds: More »
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This October, I hope I will spend the vast majority of my days sitting in a rapidly expanding pool of hysterically evacuated urine. And I need your help to do it. More »
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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 »
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And there's cussing! Designer Ken Levine gets catty as he explains why there is no sequel to System Shock 2, saying that "EA just didn't give a shit about that game." OMG, he just said shit! More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=191142&view=rss&microfeed=true Whilst searching for an image of Shodan to accompany my delusional post about the possibility of an imminent System Shock 3 — and I assure you, I know that System Shock 3 is never going to happen, just like I know that no matter how much I want it Angelina Jolie isn't going to sky dive naked out of an airplane and ethereally parachute down to land in the missionary position atop me — I found this excellent gallery of concept art from Garteth Hinds for System Shock 2. More »
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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 »
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