After Irrational Games was dismantled in 2014, the way forward for the Bioshock IP was left twisting within the wind. It definitely wasn’t going to fall on former studio head Ken Levine, as he departed to run a smaller studio known as Ghost Story Games which might don’t have anything close to the manufacturing scale required to tackle a brand new time-period magic-potion train within the violence of political ideologies and/or golf. But as a part of a a lot bigger 2K expose written this week over at Kotaku, it seems information has leaked relating to a Bioshock title in growth at an excellent secret 2K studio. Or no less than, , beforehand tremendous secret.
Jason Schreier’s Kotaku piece is a deep dive into the failures at Hangar 13, whose Mafia III appeared like the beginning of larger and higher issues, and so they had each a sequel and a spy sport in pending growth… when the whole lot received shut down. The article on Hangar 13 is totally value your time to see what’s occurring in an business spiraling from an absence of management. Somewhat buried within the piece are particulars relating to Parkside, a sport I’m intrigued to be taught extra about.
“Next door, a small group of people were working on a project code-named Parkside, quietly recruiting from across the video game industry for a game so secret, they wouldn’t even tell their colleagues at Hangar 13 about it,” the report says. “Word got out, though, that it was in fact a new game in one of the most interesting shooter franchises of the past decade: BioShock.”
“They’re trying to be really smart about figuring out what the core thing is,” one particular person concerned with the venture mentioned. “They’re careful about not falling into the same problem every studio has, where they have too many people and nothing for them to do.”
What Bioshock appears to be like like with out Ken Levine is, uh, open-ended to say the least. And that is… … rumor mill stuff a few factor in pre-prod at finest?
Admittedly, I believed these teasers from 2K in 2015 have been for a Bioshock sequel, regardless that they turned out to be for XCOM 2. And… that began my obsession with wanting a Bioshock/XCOM sport. 2K, I’ve many pitch paperwork drawn on cocktail napkins to ship your approach. Reach out to me, y’all.
