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In an interview with MCV, Global President of 2K Christoph Hartmann believed that Bioshock is capable of having several sequels (Bioshock 2: Sea Of Dreams will be part prequel, part sequel). Though he promised to not “cash in” on the future franchise, we believe different.

For Bioshock, because it’s 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 isn’t?’. “But, then again, look at Star Wars. It’s 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

Hartmann also tried to subtlety say he was upset on how the Need for Speed franchise was killed. Though he didn’t name the company or name specifically you read the next quote and say if were wrong.

But we have to be careful not to cash in. I won’t name the company, but there was a great racing game years ago. They brought it back year-on-year. If you look at the scores, it’s hard to believe what they’ve done to it. It’s upsetting, actually.

Do we truly need a Bioshock franchise or are we content with 2-3 sequels and then something new?

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2K Games has a discount deal for gamers in the US. By printing out a coupon you will be able to get a $10 discount on several games. You will be able to turn in the coupon in at certain store to benefit from this.

The coupon is valid for the following games on the PlayStation 3:

• Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution
• NBA 2K9
• NHL 2K9
• BioShock

Still want one of these games in your collection? Known participating retailers include but are not limited to: Wal-Mart, Target, Kmart, GameStop, Game Crazy, Virgin, Hastings, Meijer.

The coupons are limited per game but not per person, so getting three of these games and having three coupons printed out leads to a $10 discount per game.

Read the FAQ on the this deal your self and print it out here (Adobe Reader required).

Our favourite online store Play.com is at it again, this time with a Monster sale with prices starting as low as £9,99 (€13,99). Seems some stores are trying to make sure the gamers don’t notice too much of the current financial problems in the world with these prices their throwing at us. Only thing is, you’ll need to know when these days are.

The games that caught our eyes were:

Prince of Persia (£17.99)
Midnight Club: Los Angeles (£17.99)
Far Cry 2 (£17.99)
Bioshock (£17.99)
LittleBigPlanet £24.99
MotorStorm: Pacific Rift £29.99
Fallout 3: Collector’s Edition £24.99

Since I already gave myself LittleBigPlanet and Pacific Rift as christmas gift, I’ll be looking which ones will start off my New Year. Fallout 3 is already in my basket.

From time to time we’ll post some interesting sales of games or accessories to help ease the pain in current times

Keith Shetler, Assistant Producer, 2K Boston made a post on the Playstation.Blog stating that downloadable content for BioShock will be released today.

Today you will be able to download the PS3 Challenge Rooms Add-On Content for $9.99. Not sure if this is worldwide or just America.

New Game Plus allows you to start a new supercharged playthrough of BioShock. Ready for this? You begin the game with any weapons, abilities, and inventory that you collected during a previous playthrough. Always wish you could obliterate Dr. Steinman with your uber grenade launcher? Now you can!

For more information on this pack, click here.

Originally slated to be out on Nov. 20th, people on the IGN boards posted that the patch is available now.

Earlier we posted a screenshots showing of the improvements that we could expect but now we have more info. The patch we be around 222MB big and has the following improvements:

• Enables Add On Content functionality for the Challenge Rooms and New Game Plus – Add-On Content required to use this functionality
• Big Daddy Bounce, Elite Bouncer, and Other Textures Appeared Pixelated – Fix for an issue where large blocky pixels would show up whenever viewing the Bouncer and Elite Bouncer variants of the Big Daddy. Also fixes various other texture pixelation including weapons.
• White Bars – Fix for an issue where white/discolored bars would show up at the right and bottom sides of the screen during the plane crash / water scene at the beginning of the game.
• Dark Big Daddy After Resurrection – Fix for an issue where Big Daddy would occasionally turn black after the player dies and is then resurrected.
• Shrinking Fire Particles – Fix for an issue where some fire particles would shrink every time they were retriggered.
• Big Daddies Gushing Abnormal Amounts of Blood – Fix for an issue where Big Daddies would gush abnormal amounts of blood after being killed by a critical hit while having more than 10% health (ie, from another Big Daddy’s gun).
• PS Button Crash – Fix for an issue where the game would crash when PS button hit during hacking when vsync turned to off

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The Playstation 3 exclusive add-on pack for BioShock has been priced and dated. The pack will be released on the 20th of November 2008 at a suitable price of just $9.99. This is for North America only.

There will be three more rooms with challenges to solve, below are descriptions of the three new rooms.

A Shocking Turn of Events – A Little Sister is trapped atop a Ferris wheel in an undisclosed location in Rapture. Using only the tools and environment around them, players must use their wits to create electricity to power the Ferris wheel and bring the Little Sister to safety.

The I in Team – Using limited resources, and an even more limited arsenal, players must negotiate traps and find a way to defeat a Big Daddy using their wits instead of raw firepower.

Worlds of Hurt – Step up and take on the most grueling challenge offered in the world of Rapture. Players must battle through eight rooms of Big Daddies, Splicers and the worst that Rapture has to offer. Accumulate Adam, build an arsenal of Plasmids, Tonics and Weaponry, and fight through to rescue the Little Sister.

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With little details or price on what the Challenge Room content will bring to the PS3 version of Bioshock, 2k announced the release date for the downloadable content to be set for November 20th.

You could you first hear (and see) about this exlusive DLC at E3 but there has not been much info after that.

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With one major title missing in this week’s releases there are still games like Bioshock, Midnight Club: LA Remix, Far Cry 2 and Dead Space (For Europe) to ease the pain.

Here is the list of Playstation 3 releases.

North American Games:

• Rock Band 2 [Special Edition]
• Midnight Club: Los Angeles
• Disney Sing It
• Eternal Sonata
• The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon
• BioShock
• Far Cry 2
• Spider Man: Web of Shadows

EU Games:

• Far Cry 2 (Collector’s Edition available at GAME)
• Dead Space
• MotoGP 08
• Midnight Club: Los Angeles
• Spider Man: Web of Shadows
• Monopoly
• Blitz The League II

Asian Games:

• NBA Live 09 (Finally)

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The demo of BioShock that was released on the Playstation Network a few weeks ago was a slight letdown. Playstation 3 fans were annoyed that they were to get a ‘bogged’ down version of the game. This is what the demo looked like.

Now then, here’s what the game looks like after the patch.

Hopefully this has fixed the many problems found in the demo.

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IGN has reviewed BioShock on the Playstation 3, most likely the final build of the game. When the demo came out a couple of weeks ago a lot of waiters like us were left upset because of the quality of the graphics.

According to the IGN review these seem to have been fixed.

If you never experienced the halls of Rapture and have been waiting for its appearance on the PS3, there really is no discussion to be had. Go out and get your hands on BioShock — you will thoroughly enjoy exploring the incredible story and the excellent action that the game is known for. However, if you’ve played the game before, or are expecting this to be the definitive version, that’s not fully found here. Sure, the full trophy support and Survivor mode are great, and the Challenge Rooms could add a ton to the replayability (whenever it’s implemented). However, old glitches that should’ve been fixed in the PS3 development hold this version back from being completely realized.

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A mix of old and new textures, combined with old glitches and slowdown that should’ve been fixed in a year’s worth of extra development holds this game back slightly.

Doesnt really mention anything bad about the quality of the graphics. Read the full review.

So, BioShock got slated after 2KGames released a demo for the game a couple of weeks ago. It looks like 2K are back hard at work trying to make the PS3 version the better version. Jake Etgeton a 2K Marin programmer reveals that the PS3 version of BioShock will feature new interactive load screens and graphical improvements.

There are improvements, such as interactive load screens which takes advantage of the increased space on the Blu-ray disc,

The downloadable Challenge Rooms also offer a slew of new graphical and gameplay content, albeit outside of the fictional universe.

Etgeton reveals that the game will install to the PS3’s hard drive taking up 5GB and will only take 10 minutes.

BioShock PS3 uses a standard one-time 5 GB install. It only takes 10 minutes, and there’s even a fancy movie accompanied by Bing Crosby’s ‘You’re Getting to Be a Habit with Me’ to help pass the time if you’re not off making a tasty, preparatory sandwich.

I guess we will have to wait for the reviews to roll in. Our guess is that the graphics will be slightly improved over the demo counter part.

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BioShock has gone gold and a demo will be released on the Playstation Store tomorrow. A lot of people thought BioShock wouldn’t make it on PS3, after a lot of rumors and such 2K Games finally confirmed the game to be in development with extras.

The game will be released October 17.

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BioShock is nearing it’s release date for the Playstation 3. Below is a video of the game running on the PS3. Check it out.

Guess what that is.

BioShock Big Daddy Gameplay

On the official site of 2K Games, representative of 2K, Elizabeth announced that we can expect a demo of the PS3 version of Bioshock on October 2nd.

If you like the demo then or can hold out for longer you’ll be rewarded with the game release on October 21st

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2K Games have confirmed that the downloadable content for the Playstation 3 version of BioShock will remain exclusive to the system. New content includes Challenge Rooms, new difficulty mode and Trophy support. senior producer Melissa Miller at 2K Games said to VideoGamer.com at during the Games Convention 2008:

“Right now we are supporting the PS3 launch. We are really excited to be bringing the BioShock experience to a whole new set of fans. We’ve been concentrating on ways to make this game special. The things that we’ve added, they’re not changing the original experience that the 360 fans and the PC fans got, but are things that compliment nicely that experience.”

“The answer is no. Right now this is a PS3 exclusive.”

PS3 fans can rejoice as they will have exclusive content for their version of BioShock.