BioShock Infinite floats onto shelves October 16
Irrational Games hopes to rapture us away to the cloudborne city of Columbia on October 16, the date publisher 2K Games has announced BioShock Infinite will drift onto PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in North America.
Irrational Games hopes to rapture us away to the cloudborne city of Columbia on October 16, the date publisher 2K Games has announced BioShock Infinite will drift onto PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in North America. The international release will follow on October 19.
Jettisoning the underwater world of the first two BioShock games, Infinite rises into the skies of 1912 to visit another great city founded upon an ideal which turned out to be troublesome in reality--American Exceptionalism. Amid a civil war, we'll be a former Pinkerton agent sent to rescue a young lady with extraordinary powers, who's guarded by some awe-inspiring monstrosities.
Courting the hardcore/curmudgeonly market, BioShock Infinite packs '1999 Mode,' an "old school" twist which amps up the difficulty and encourages specialization. 1999, by no coincidence, is of course the year Irrational and the late, great Looking Glass released System Shock 2.
Irrational is working on Infinite with its former sister studio, the branch of 2K Marin previously known as 2K Australia, and Irrational's Australian studio before that.
Here's the 15-minute Infinite gameplay demonstration from E3 in June 2011, and Garnett's impressions of it:
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replyAlice O'Connor posted a new article, BioShock Infinite floats onto shelves October 16.
Irrational Games hopes to rapture us away to the cloudborne city of Columbia on October 16, the date publisher 2K Games has announced BioShock Infinite will drift onto PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in North America.-
With this and Farcry 3 coming, I can now build a solid rig around Aug-Sept around the time the prices drop making room for next gen graphics cards. Win Win!
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Steamworks, or no DRM, or no sale for me.
My original Bioshock install DVD is still sitting at the bottom of a pile, never to be installed on a present or future gaming system. The one gaming system that had it installed is sitting in quarantine.-
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Sorry, but after the incident where Bioshock was the first AAA FPS game to start the trend of activation DRM that prevents the usage of SysInternals utilities (I don't care if it was a bug in ProcExp; my trust was shattered that day), I can't forgive, or forget.
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I still remember that day. Started the installer, fired up Process Explorer to watch the I/O and memory activity during the install. It finishes, then the SecuROM activation DRM starts up, pops up an error with a detailed description that basically says, "I detected a hacking utility, so I uninstalled the game you just installed. Don't install any hacking utilities on your computer, EVER, or else I will make life miserable for you". And then right after I finish reading that, my gaming PC resets itself, and is never able to boot again (probably due to a freak memory error at a most unfortunate time). I will never forget that day.
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SysInternals software is NOT hacking software. It is legitimate software that is used by IT professionals and software developers, alike. If hackers find uses for it, than that is just a side effect. But that is like saying you can't run Window Task Manager, while running the game. OMG, give me a break.
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The bug in Process Explorer was one where it would hold a thread debug handle open, and not close it until a system reboot. The SecuROM activation DRM issues spurred them to fix that bug; after that, the word from 2K was "Don't run Process Explorer when installing or playing, and download the update with the thread close fix." Which makes me wonder, what if I have to run ProcMon to trace something? Same rules? It feels almost like the 2nd Amendment debate: the right to keep and bear diagnostic utilities. I respect intellectual property, but sometimes I need to use SysInternals utilities for legitimate professional work.
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Sysinternals is the opposite of hacking software. It's necessary IT software for examining systems.
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PS3 version will include the first BioShock game on disc.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-03-01-ps3-bioshock-infinite-includes-bioshock-1-on-blu-ray-disc-
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My birthday is the 27th, this is the only thing I'm asking for. :)
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Ok... Got 7+ months to finish BioShock 2.
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