E3 2011 is in just over a week, which is just enough time for me to catch us up on some games that I am very much looking forward to. We’re just about halfway through the year and there have been some great titles already, but some of my most anticipated releases are yet to …
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Tag Archives: Irrational Games
2K Loves Me, Loves Me Not, Loves Me!
12/11/2010 - 17:13
Ever since the BioShock 2 launch, 2K Games have been giving PC players high blood pressure and ulcers thanks to a laundry list of problems with the game, ranging from its Games for Windows Live integration and DirectX issues to the infamous “Rapture Metro” map pack, giving much credence to the view that the game …
What Was Icarus? BioShock Infinite
13/08/2010 - 02:40
The over-speculated and hotly anticipated Irrational Games project that was to be revealed today?
BioShock Infinite.
The announcement of the latest game in the BioShock franchise, slated to launch on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC in 2012, seems to belong to the category of “expect the expected:” As we all turned to the …
What is Icarus?
07/08/2010 - 09:19
The past week has seen some irrational behaviour on a strange teaser site, whatisicarus.com. Initially there was nothing to see but a smoky background and a single grey spot, not much of a tease. But sharp visitors noticed that the white spot changed position every day, making a slow but deliberate migration around the page. …
X-COM: The Re-Imagining
14/04/2010 - 12:09
The reports of an X-COM remake have finally been confirmed by 2K Games, with a bit of a twist. XCOM, a “re-imagining” of the classic MicroProse series, is an FPS under development not at Irrational Games - as the unrelenting rumour went - but at 2K Marin, the studio behind BioShock 2.
XCOM is the re-imagining …