@ 25/09/2007 – 05:38:35 pm
According to a press release of today, Bioshock is nominated for two awards by the BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts).
The game is nominated in the categories "Best Game" and "Artistic Achievements".
2K Boston/Australia and fans must wait for Tuesday 23 October, when the winners will be announced. Expect a huge gala at Battersea Evolution in Battersea Park and Ken Levine in a dinner jacket.
@ 21/09/2007 – 05:19:21 pm
Gamasutra's Sailing the World gives details of each gaming platform's best-selling games every week. This week BioShock remains at the top of the 360 chart in both the US and UK, clearly its last week in the glowing spot before the megaton that is Halo 3 descends in the next few days. On the PC BioShock makes way for new releases like World in Conflict, grabbing spots 3 and 5 on the US and UK charts respectively.
In Australia, BioShock makes a spectacular dive from first place to spot number 8.
vraptor
@ 21/09/2007 – 06:38:14 am
Gamespot talks to Ken Levine about the story and themes in BioShock in their new interview. Please be warned that there are story spoilers so you'd best check it out after you've completed the game already.
"KL: If the sales success of BioShock means anything, it means that we can trust our audience a little more. With the themes--both from a gameplay standpoint and especially from a theme standpoint, a story standpoint--if you told anybody including myself that BioShock was going to be the kind of commercial success it's been, they would have done a double take."
vraptor
@ 21/09/2007 – 06:11:21 am
Gamers With Jobs has had Ken over on their podcast a couple of times in the past for interviews, their latest episode has him on for the whole show, and they discuss various topics including the state of the industry and games that have come out recently like Lair.
vraptor
@ 20/09/2007 – 03:38:14 pm
Gaming Today talks to Gary Schyman, composer of BioShock, about his thoughts post-release.
"Garry Schyman: I have received many emails from people who love “Cohen’s Masterpiece” a piano solo that I wrote in the style of the late romantic composers with a touch of modernism from the early 20th century. Many pianists have asked me for the score so they could learn it. That has been very satisfying and frankly unexpected. It was a lot of work to compose and it’s just so gratifying to have people respond so positively to what is essentially a classical piano solo."
vraptor
@ 20/09/2007 – 12:03:21 pm
In the latest face-off in the immensely interesting Vs. Mode section of gaming blog Level Up, MTV News' Stephen Totilo and Level Up's N'Gai Croal exchange notes on BioShock and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. The lengthy discussion spans four rounds, and touches on many aspects of both games. Suffice it to say, both journalists were impressed by BioShock and have much to say about it. The articles are well worth a read, though be warned that at certain points spoilers are mentioned (clearly marked).
Have a look: Round 1; Round 2; Round 3; Final Round.
vraptor
@ 20/09/2007 – 11:19:24 am
2K Games' Marketing Director Tom Bass gives us an insight into the marketing campaign that drove BioShock's commercial success.
"This 'one-two punch' of the demo and the TV spot in the same debut was so important to us: our final round of market research by Frank Magid and Associates showed that the TV spot and the demo combined were driving purchase intent through the roof. Our moderator kept coming into the room shaking his head saying he's never seen anything like it. Many sessions ended with 100% purchase intent from 100% of the participants. The response was tremendous."
vraptor
@ 19/09/2007 – 01:32:01 pm
BioShock continues to slip down the UK charts, landing the 10th spot in the wake of new releases.
Elsewhere, CliffyB of Epic gives BioShock great praise, calling it his game of the year. It'd be interesting to see what other developers think of the game too, especially like those at Valve, who had expressed great anticipation for it - so much so that they had to ban their team from playing it in order to get Orange Box done in time for release.
vraptor
@ 15/09/2007 – 02:38:18 pm
Community Manager Elizabeth Tobey informed us that September 30th is the cut off for sending in replacement requests. It's not the date when the last replacements will be send to you (which will be later).
If you registered until that day, you will receive a replaced Big Daddy and a free printed artbook of Bioshock. Both items are currently in production and will get shipped as soon as they are ready.
I also added the link again for US and Canadian consumers having Big Daddy issues.
@ 15/09/2007 – 02:19:07 pm
IGN.com now offers some free help for Rapture tourists out there. If you are an IGN Insider, you even get more extras.
The normal walkthrough version is crafted and written quite well, with locations of every tonic, plasmid and diary marked on the map. It also gives you basic tips for the game or how to fight Big Daddies.
IGN Insiders get a PDF-file with the walkthrough soon, as well as a version for PSP and video tips to download.
Although the guide's title mentions the 360 version only, I don't know any reason why it should not work for the PC, as well. Enjoy!
@ 15/09/2007 – 04:07:21 am
BioShock's sales numbers in August are out, and apparently it sold 490,910 360 SKU's and 77,374 PC SKU's. It was the best selling PC game that month, which is phenomenal considering it was available only in the last 9 days. Note that these are sales in the US only, moreover they don't take into account the numbers sold on Steam. BioShock had much tougher competition in the 360 charts, getting a beating from Madden NFL 08 - quite evidently because a) the sports game had a week head start and b) it's a Madden game.
We already know that 2K has shipped 1.5 million units thus far, so it will be interesting to see how it sells this month.
vraptor
@ 14/09/2007 – 11:07:04 pm
Hi there! I'm vraptor and I'll be posting news and stories at the Rapture Gazette alongside Rapture Tourist. I'm a huge fan of BioShock and 2K Boston's previous games, and am an active member of the online community. I hope to bring you guys news from the far reaches of the internet; if it's BioShock related and you need to know about it, we'll be reporting it!
vraptor
@ 11/09/2007 – 11:24:01 am
When 2K Games announced today how well Bioshock has been received by critics (Metacritic.com), they also said that it was the most downloaded XBL demo so far.
The game only needed nine days to reach that goal. No big surprise if you remember how Bioshock downloads crashed nearly the whole Xbox Live network.
Christoph Hartmann, President of 2K about Bioshock: "We are really pleased that Microsoft’s Xbox LIVE Marketplace has managed to attract a record number of gamers to its site to download and check out BioShock. The overwhelmingly positive response is not only reflected in the traffic to Xbox LIVE, but the record breaking score reported by Metacritic. We’re excited about the reception the fans have given BioShock and are honored that the game has been recognized as ‘Game of the Year’ material."
Cool, but how about giving us new stuff to download then?
@ 11/09/2007 – 09:31:40 am
I closed the last poll for a new one, so let's take a look at the results! While I have a hard core of readers, most visitors were redirected by google as other statistics confirm. I hope you check back more regulary in the future!
Due to the last report made by Take 2, I added a new poll. This one is all about more Bioshock games or a whole franchise. Would you like to play a prequel/sequel to Bioshock? Or do you believe a fresh game with a new genre like e.g. MMORPG set in Rapture might be cool? Is Bioshock a masterpiece, which should not be spoiled by sequels?
@ 11/09/2007 – 09:12:40 am
Is anyone surprised that a successful game may turn into a franchise with several "episodes"? Well, I wasn't, but it's good to listen to the "Third Quarter Fiscal 2007 Results Conference Call" of Take 2 Interactive.
We are informed that Bioshock sold more than 1.5 m copies so far and Take-Two chairman Strauss Zelnick believes that "BioShock is shaping up to be a very important franchise". He imagines sequels following in a two or three year cycle.
This is no sequel announcement, but if Bioshock proceeds printing money, a bell will ring soon.
Take 2 Interactive - Third Quarter Fiscal 2007 Results Conference Call
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