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Ken Levine says Steam Machine shows we’re hitting ‘diminishing returns’ with bleeding-edge graphics tech—just look at BioShock to see why art is more important

These days, I’m firmly on the System Shock side of the System Shock/BioShock division that exists almost exclusively in my head, but I’ll give Rapture this: it was goddamn stunning when I first took that bathysphere jaunt back in 2007. The barnacled art deco was a heck of a look, and it still is today….

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One of BioShock’s directors has been questioning the point of one of its key systems: ‘I don’t care about how many different plasmids I have’

Jonathan Chey, the Irrational co-founder with credits that go all the way back to the original Thief, has been thinking about BioShock again—where he served as the director of development. BioShock might be deep in his past, but at his studio Blue Manchu he’s continued to explore one of PC Gamer’s favourite genres: the glorious…

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This Week’s ‘Archives’ Releases Are Universal’s 1982 Dig Dug Clone ‘Mr. Do!’ & A PS1 Strategy Game From 1997

‘Mr. Do!’ & Master of ‘Monsters: Disciples of Gaia’ are heading to modern consoles. Universal’s tunnel-digging maze game Mr. Do! is coming to Nintendo Switch, Switch 2, PS4, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S as part of the Arcade Archives and Arcade Archives 2 series of retro reissues, Hamster revealed earlier today. Originally released in 1982,…

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Bioshock lead’s fears about Judas were banished by Baldur’s Gate 3 gibbing a main character on his second playthrough: ‘He was gone’

Judas, the next game from Bioshock lead Ken Levine, is going to have a lot of branching content in it—if you’ve been following along with its development, you’ve probably heard the phrase “narrative legos” more times than you can count on one infusion-enhanced hand. Which is a bit of a departure, given Levine’s prior work—Bioshock…

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Subnautica 2 release date and launch times

Subnautica 2 is getting ready to launch into early access, which is music to the ears of anyone looking to get stuck into a new underwater adventure. It hasn’t been particularly smooth sailing ahead of launch either, with Krafton gutting Unknown Worlds and stating that the game needs ‘renewed energy and momentum’ before reinstating the…

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