Irrational Games, the studio that makes BioShock, is shutting down. BioShock creator Ken Levine said today that he plans to move on to smaller, narrative-heavy games that will be released digitally.
Levine, who ran Irrational, announced the news on the Irrational Games website today, noting that he'll be starting "a smaller, more entrepreneurial endeavor at Take-Two" and laying off all but 15 people.
Irrational's final project will be part 2 of the BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea downloadable content,which is out next month. We've reached out to Take-Two for comment, and for more details on the future of the BioShock franchise.
Very sad. Bioshock and it's spiritual predecessor System Shock 2 (underrated masterpiece) are great games. At least they went out on a high with Infinite!
A mess. It sounds like Levine is just running away with the money while a majority of the studio loses their jobs so he can work on "smaller" titles. Bye.
A mess. It sounds like Levine is just running away with the money while a majority of the studio loses their jobs so he can work on "smaller" titles. Bye.
Yeah, it does seem a bit selfish. Why didn't he just leave Irrational Games and BioShock himself and go create his own new studio and development team? Seems very unnecessary.
Yeah, it does seem a bit selfish. Why didn't he just leave Irrational Games and BioShock himself and go create his own new studio and development team? Seems very unnecessary.
Makes me sad tbh while we have studios still on top making sub par games. *eyes Square Enix*
legitimately shocking to me
im soooo saddd omgggggg !!!!!!
infinite was good but subpar compared to the first and second.