D2D is onto the fifth and final week of it's 5 Year Anniversary $5 Game Sale, this time giving several war titles the Lincoln treatment.
zConnection's Connor Beaton writes: "Looks like there are certain perks to working in small cinemas; the staff of our local cinema The New Picture House in the lovely Scottish town of St. Andrews enjoyed the opportunity to play BioShock on their largest screen yesterday using the Christie CP-2000 Digital Projector.
Barely surviving a plane crash, the player lands in icy uncharted waters and discovers the undersea city of Rapture, a failed utopia whose citizens had embraced genetic engineering before descending into pure anarchy. Power and greed have run amok and the city has succumbed to civil war. To survive, gamers must turn everything they find into a weapon, use their powers of observation to piece together what happened and make the difficult decisions necessary in order to escape a paradise gone badly wrong.
BioShock, 2007's critically acclaimed shooter from 2K Games, will launch for the Mac on October 7th, it has been confirmed.
AllAboutTheGames reports:
If you own a decent gaming computer and still haven't played BioShock, GamersGate is giving you a chance to redeem yourself. The digital game shop is offering the underwater dystopia shooter for a mere $11.98.
PSFocus.nl writes: "There are those people who really join in the games they play. If you have the collecting gamer, they played a collection of games that they like. Then there is the editor gamer, they like to write news stories so fellow gamers with the latest game news for. Then there are those dressed gamer. This gamer love to dress as his or her favorite game character."
Nick from PS3Center writes:
2K Games and Bethesda Softworks, a ZeniMax Media company, announced today that the BioShock & The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Bundle is now available in shops across the UK for a suggested retail price of £29.99 for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and £19.99 for Windows PC.
2K Games and Bethesda Softworks, a ZeniMax Media company, announced today that the BioShock and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Bundle is now available at retail outlets across North America.
This week's new videogame releases:
Following this morning's revelation that 2K Games and Bethesda Softworks are set to deliver a very high-profile double-pack for Xbox 360 and PC in the US, confirmation has now arrived of a UK release. The BioShock & The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Bundle will make it's way to UK stores this July, with a very respectable price-tag.
Nick @ PS3Center writes:
Torrence Davis of The Bitbag writes, "Wow what a sweet bundle. I haven't picked up Bioshock yet and now is the perfect time. It's like buy one get one free. Bethesda and 2K ROCK!"
IGN writes: "If the now delayed BioShock movie does happen, it likely won't be directed by Pirates of the Caribbean helmer Gore Verbinski after all.
Notable sci-fi book publisher Tor, current home of the Halo books, will publish a BioShock novel in Fall 2009 that promises to "take you deeper into the realms" of the franchise's story.
Direct2Drive is having a great sale on their catalog of 2K Games including BioShock, Sid Meier's Civilization IV, MLB2K9 and more for under $10.
The article reads:
GOONL!NE: "Wuh oh. Universal Studios have halted production on the movie version of BioShock."
Apparently someone published a video at Youtube that claims to show a DirectX 11 version of Bioshock. Now there is a fierce argument about whether the video shows a faked DX11 Bioshock or even ingame sequences of Bioshock 2.