Joystiq.com comes along with a Bioshock giveaway. If you reside in the US, you can win a limited Bioshock faceplate for your Xbox 360 together with a t-shirt (x3).

All you have to do is to write a comment (once) into their news. Next Tuesday, a winner will be chosen randomly.

Good luck then to all Americans - Europeans envy you, if only for the chance.

Joystiq.com - Joyswag: BioShock Xbox 360 faceplate & t-shirt

According to a forum posting, someone obtained a 360 Bioshock version in a Toys'R'Us store. Both released photos look quite real, especially considering the printed manual.

UPDATE: As you can see above, the first player of the 360 Bioshock retail version has been sighted on Xbox Live. If he is not a member of 2K Games, he could have bought the game before release.

Thanks to slimjim, who provided the photos.

If you don't belong to the lucky ones, who were able to play the 360 demo, you might still be interested in watching it.

Youtube has been flooded with homemade videos and people already offer to show the demo to others via webcam live streams. You don't need all this. Several sites posted long HD videos taken from the demo.

Here is a selection:

Gamersyde.com - Images and videos of the Bioshock demo

DIVX Stage 6 - Bioshock demo gameplay

4Players.de - Drei Videos aus der Demo

Gametrailers.com - Electric Death Demo Gameplay

Gametrailers.com - Surviving Rapture Demo

If you are interested in people's feedback about the demo, you may wander over the official Bioshock boards or read a professional judgement by IGN.com and Teamxbox.com.

IGN.com - Bioshock Demo Hands-on

Teamxbox.com - BioShock Demo Impressions

The Official Bioshock Forum

No, the artists of Bioshock should not fear anything. They did a incredible job and created a immersive, destroyed but still beautiful underwater utopia. Every piece of artwork is a joy to look at.

This is the reason why so many fans voted for a artbook in the collector's edition. 2K games considered the three most wanted items (a soundtrack cd, a making of dvd and the big daddy figurine). The Bioshock artbook was close to the third place, but lost in the end.

Many fans were sad, but 2K games listened to them and worked on a digital artbook - secretly. You may think they did it quick and without love, but you are wrong. This artbook (called "Breaking the mold") is really a nice and well designed composition. My personal highlights are the concepts for the Little Sister and a Big Daddy in a wheelchair - really creepy!

Please remember that Ken Levine's foreword may contain spoilers. You might want to read it after finishing the game.

Cult of Rapture - Get your Bioshock artbook

Thanks to Elizabeth Tobey, who made this real.