Ken Levine is a name you may not know, but you have certainly either played a game he worked on, or that he inspired. Best known for his work on the Bioshock series, which itself is currently languishing in a bit of a development hell, Ken also worked on the Seminal System shock series that went on to pioneer the Immersive sim genre, along with its more stealthy counterpart in Thief: the Dark project, which would serve as major inspiration for games such as dishonored.

After Irrational games dissolved in 2014, Levine Founded Ghost story games, who then promised to release a new game by 2017. Needless to say, that didnt happen. The game was stated to be smaller in scale to Levine’s previous work, however it borrowed parts from earlier games he had worked on.

Ambition is probably the operative work her, with numerous ghost story employees saying the game has been rebooted and reworked several times over the last few years, and that it will probably not see the light of day for a few years yet. Some employees have anonymously stated the repetition of adhering to Leveins Ideas only to scrap them shortly down the line has been making development unbearable.

As to why 2K games, the publisher that signed a 15 year deal with Levine’s studio, doesn’t step in is unknown. Jason Schreier of Kotaku suggests it may be due to 2K adopting a Lacks attitude towards levine because they respect his status as an  auteur in the Medium. However, given how 2K are known to have rushed their recent NBA titles, this doesn’t seem Likely.

With rumors of a bioshock 4 being in the works, it remains to be seen which game comes first, Ken levines or Bioshock 4.

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2K Games confirmed they will be releasing details of their new franchise that will be released at the end of the current fiscal year.

2K Games confirmed the news at its parent company Take Two‘s 2022 Q1 earnings results call that took place on Monday.

The new franchise can be expected to release before March 31 2022.

2K’s New Franchise

Sadly there aren’t many details to be revealed as of yet but Two Take’s president, Karl Slatoff, confirmed: “2K will unveil details of another exciting new franchise planned for launch during this fiscal year”.

There’s a lot of speculation going around that this new game could be developed by Firaxis, the developers of Civilisation and XCOM, who have a history of publishing their games under 2K Games. It is said the developer has several games to announce later this year, one reportedly being a new Marvel game, however, this has yet to be officially confirmed.

The new franchise could be announced at Gamescom 2021, which has been confirmed to be all online again this year and will take place between August 25-27.

Take-Two also said it had delayed the launch of its two immersive core titles to later in the current fiscal year than originally planned. The company intended to release 21 games this year, including a new franchise from Borderlands developer Gearbox.

What do you think the new franchise will entail? Let’s hope the company isn’t forced to push it back even further.

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NBA 2K16 contains everything you need to be the ultimate Michael Jordan

2K Games has decided to release a Special Edition of it’s upcoming game, NBA 2K16. The game itself will include a unique cover and all wonderful things to do with the basketball legend that is Michael Jordan!

If you grab yourself a Special Edition of the game, you will reap a Michael Jordan NBA 2K16 poster, a Jordan Fathead wall cling, a digital Jordan wardrobe for your MyPlayer – consisting of shirt, shoes and jersey – 30,000 virtual currency, three MyTeam VIP+ emerald packs and a new special edition exclusive moments card. That’s a heck of a lot of Jordan goodies to be had!

The standard edition is to be released on 29th September 2015, and grabbing the Special Edition will also enable you to play in court 4 day earlier than the standard release. Let’s hope that there’s some sort of Space Jam DLC to come!

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Bioshock Infinite

The 2013 game is now FREE for Xbox 360 Gold members with a paid subscription

ame becaWell isn’t this a treat?! The third instalment from the distinguished Bioshock series, Bioshock Infinite, is now FREE to download for Gold members with a paid subscription on the Xbox 360. The free download was given yesterday and will run through the end of the month for these lucky subscribers. The previous download was the Tomb Raider reboot, which ran from 1st to 15th March.

Bioshock Infinite was originally released two years ago, this month, for PC and consoles. This game has shipped around 7 million copies to date, even though Irrational Games shut down, effectively, in February last year.

2K Games in Marin, California, have now taken over the Bioshock Franchise, even though no announcements for a new game have been made as of yet. As reported by the CEO (Strauss Zelnick) of 2K Games’ parent company, Take-Two, the Bioshock series has not yet reached it’s commercial or critical potential.

 Popping over to the Xbox One, Xbox Live Gold members can download Rayman Legends and IDARB for free and for the entire month! Aren’t you all a lucky bunch?!

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