The PC edition of 2K Boston and 2K Australia's deep sea shooter BioShock (PC, PS3, 360) is now on sale at Valve's digital distribution platform Steam for $14.99.
PSU Writes:
Some bad news for PS3 owners hoping for some improvements in the graphics department for upcoming shooter BioShock. Publisher 2K Games has confirmed to VideoGamer.com that it's concentrating on matching, not bettering the visuals seen in the Xbox 360 version.
Playstation.Blog :
DarkZero: The release of Bioshock on the PS3 may still be a long way off, but according the BBFC - who have recently rated the upcoming game - players will apparently have to sit through a 24 minute install before they venture into the dystopian city of Rapture. We say apparently, as the listing is not very exact in it's wording, and just remarks "00:05:24:00 BIOSHOCK PS INSTALL VID FINAL.BIK" as part of their listing.
ThatGamingSite writes:
Kotaku: BioShock on PS3 is going to get some exclusive DLC. Get your pissing and moaning out of the way now, if you could. Done? Wonderful. Because you can't really mess with BioShock's story by adding extra levels or bosses, 2K are instead adding some things called "Challenge Rooms", which will be self-contained areas (ie, you access it from the main menu, not in-game) designed to get you using your plasmids to solve puzzles
From Spike TV, you see some gameplay footage from BioShock and have a look at the New DLC that's coming after the launch of the game on PlayStation 3.
Ripten:
PlayStation LifeStyle dug up information from 2K Games' website confirming the existence of trophies in Bioshock. More information is provided directly from the trophy programmer at Digital Extremes) and the article goes into great detail about being one of the first developers to implement PS3 trophies.
A list handed out by GameStop employees at a midnight launch event. It holds over 50 titles with their supposed dates. It includes Resistance 2, Killzone 2, and others
Turkish PlayStation web site PSTurkiye profiles most anticipated PS3 games of E3.
Eurogamer writes: "Damnation developer Blue Omega reckons there was "no frigging way" BioShock should have ended up being successful.
2K Games has announced that well established video game developer Digital Extremes will be assisting on development of the PS3 version of BioShock. The studio will be working alongside 2K Marin, 2K Boston, 2K Australia.
CVG says Venom Games (due to close soon) was asked to handle the PS3 version of BioShock (to be released at the same time as the 360 version) but its coders said it wasn't possible.
StalkingSilence has an excellent thread on the Official US PlayStation forums listing the different games that have been confirmed or rumored to have trophy support, and not just the first party games. Here are the games we know so far will at some point support trophies...
BioShock lead programmer Chris Kline has said at a GDC session in Paris that the game should have been a failure. "In fact," he said, "it did fail a lot, over the course of time. A series of big mistakes and corrections and slipped ship dates, but all of these helped make it a good game." ...
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Develop: 2K Boston's Chris Kline on how embracing bad decisions lead to one of 2007's biggest games
Variety writes: "Have you been wondering why "Bioshock" creative guru and 2K Boston chief Ken Levine has been strangely absent from the press recently? Why "Bioshock 2" is being made at a separate studio and all Take-Two has said is that he "will be involved?" Why he wasn't available to talk on the record about the "Bioshock" movie? Why nobody knows what's up with him?
Today PlayStation LifeStyle can give you exclusive inside info on the PS3 edition of Bioshock to be released at the end of the year. As always with all their inside info, its still a rumor until its official. So without further or do, here are the the exclusive details they have¿