The Xbox 360 version of BioShock has topped the latest Swedish multiformat sale chart, which is otherwise dominated by PC games. The next five games on the chart are all PC titles - including the PC version of BioShock, listed at number 6. Interestingly, not a single Wii game is in the top 20 spots on the multiformat chart.
Irrational Games has released a little update on Xbox Live for its watery masterpiece BioShock.
Those sneaky file searchers over at the 2K Games forums have uncovered a few text strings embedded in the PC version of BioShock's game code which hint at a new set of plasmids coming our way. After looking through the game's install files for a reference to a PC game editor, forum member Zemlor stumbled across a reference to a piece of content called "PlasmidPack1".
With the recent rumblings of 2k Game including secuRom with the BioShock game disk a question was thrown to the officials over at official BioShock forums. You will not believe their response.
After 2 weeks in the charts Bioshock is still the best selling game in the UK, holding off competion from new release Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08, while another new entry Stuntman Ignition came in 9th.
With a 400k debut, Bioshock has a pretty legitimate shot at 1,000,000 units long term. For a sense of scale though - even in week two Madden (across all platforms) - outsold the game.
Recently, posts spread around the internet detailing BioShock's former setting of an isolated tropical island inhabited by genetically experimental Nazis, demonstrating just how much a game can change from initial conception to final product. That's nothing on what the game was about before then, however: a cult deprogrammer hired by the parents of a woman involved in a lesbian relationship to kidnap the daughter and rewrite her brain to steer clear of what her parents perceive as deviant activity.
The new issue of PCGZine rates Bioshock with its highest score to date, claiming it reinvents the FPS genre and should excite all gamers, even jaded games journalists.
BioShock is perhaps the best example of a third-party really getting to grips with Epic's tech. One wonders whether Levine's comments are at all aimed at Silicon Knights.
So you want to find your way perfectly in Rapture? Then you don't need to search any further. The Superguide for Bioshock has bubbled up from the bottom of the sea...
Bioshock, developed by 2K Boston and 2K Australia (formerly known as Irrational), is currently the number one selling game in the UK marketplace, accounting for 58 per cent of all full-price game sales and becoming the second-fastest selling Xbox 360 title of all time ¿ right behind Epic's own Gears of War.
As of today, the entire Bioshock musical score can be downloaded from the Cult of Rapture (http://www.2kgames.com/cultofrapture/home.html) website, absolutely free of charge.
2K Games' BioShock rules over the charts again this week while there are new best sellers on PS3, PS2 and Nintendo Wii.
A free download from Bioshock's official site gets you all twelve tracks from the game's orchestral soundtrack.
In what's becoming an ever more increasing sight, the potent differences between scores of highly anticipated games on the PlayStation 3, Massive Attack from Neogaf has posted scores that he claims are from the October issue of EGM in where Bioshock, Heavenly Sword and Warhawk are amongst the titles reviewed.
Finally after a 3 days of waiting a cracked version of highly anticipated X360 and PC game Bioshock is released by group ONEHitWONDER.
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