BioShock™ Steam news

• Latest observed players59 · 22 September 2026 - 01:08:36 UTC
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• Review score94% positive
• Total reviews31,835
• Release dateAug 21, 2007
• Developer2K Boston, 2K Australia
• Publisher2K

Genres: Action, RPG

Company pages: Developer: 2K Boston, 2K AustraliaPublisher: 2K

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BioShock™ Steam news

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• 2K comment on reports Bioshock 4 is in trouble: "we have a good game, but we are committed to delivering a great one" - 4 August 2025

  The new Bioshock game in development at Cloud Chamber Games is in difficulties, according to sources of the multiple and anonymous persuasion. Announced in 2019 , the game has reportedly failed a recent internal progress review, with its narrative found to be in particular need of revamping. Read more

• Steam Summer Sale - 26 June 2025

  The 2K Summer Sale!Hot deals on hot games! Cool down with summer savings!Save 15% on Sid Meier's Civilization VII*Save 86% on NBA 2K25 Standard Edition*Save 95% on Borderlands 3*Save 80% on Mafia Trilogy*And more! Don't miss out on incredible deals on 2K titles and DLC during the 2K Summer Sale!*Discount based on 2K's SRP. Sale ends 10:00am PST on July 10, 2025. Terms apply.The 2K Summer Sale!

• The 2K Spring Sale! - 13 March 2025

  Don't miss out on incredible 2K titles and DLC during the 2K Spring Sale! Save 90% on Sid Meier's Civilization VI Save 70% on NBA 2K25 Standard Edition Save 67% on Risk of Rain 2 Also save big on the Mafia Trilogy and Borderlands Franchise titles! *Sale ends 10:00am PST on March 20, 2025. Terms apply 2K Spring Sale

• 2K 20th Anniversary Event - 6 February 2025

  2K turns 20 this year, and we're celebrating with huge savings on some of our biggest titles! 2K 20th Anniversary Event Don't miss our ""20 for 20"" bundle featuring 20 of 2K's renowned legacy titles.* Experience greatness from 2K's library with timeless classics like Civilization IV, the original Mafia, Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition, and more! The award-winning Civilization strategy game franchise is returning with a revolutionary new chapter very, very soon. Sid Meier's Civilization VII empowers you to build the greatest empire the world has ever known; build something you believe in and create a legacy that echoes through the Ages! Pre-purchase it now ahead of its launch on February 11, 2025, or grab the Deluxe Edition or time-limited Founders Edition** to start playing as early as February 6! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1295660/Sid_Meiers_Civilization_VII/ Later this…

• Excited for the BioShock movie? You might want to sit down, as director Francis Lawrence's schedule is busy - 25 July 2024

  You might not remember it, but in early 2022, Netflix and 2K jointly announced the BioShock movie was back from the dead and in active development. Later that year, we learned that Francis Lawrence (of I Am Legend and The Hunger Games fame) would be directing . Now, that's looking more and more unlikely. Up until recently, Lawrence has been openly chatting about the project and what his hopes and goals for it are, yet we're not convinced he'll be the filmmaker to journey down to Rapture once we look at his increasingly packed schedule . We do hope that notable scribe Michael Green (Logan, Blade Runner 2049) stays on board though. Via Deadline , we've learned that production on the long-in-development big-screen adaptation of Stephen King's The Long Walk has finally started shooting with Lawrence in the director's chair. After that, he's supposedly sticking around in Panem for the next H…

• Supposed BioShock 4 screenshot confirms that yes, it is a video game - 15 July 2024

  You're not gonna believe this. An apparent screenshot from the Bioshock game that's currently in the works has leaked online, and, assuming it's genuine, it tells us one thing we've all been hoping to learn about the title. That it's a video game. Yep, take a look at the image, which MP1ST claims has been unearthed from the showreel of a visual effects artist working for publisher 2K, and you can see clear as day, Bioshock 4, reportedly codenamed 'Parkside' , is probably in line to be one of those doodads we all like to play with a controller, or mouse and keyboard, or a dance pad. In it, the player's holding a gun, dubbed the "Ricochet Shotgun", and is looking straight at some kind of glowing orb mounted on a stand. Maybe they're contemplating it for some reason, or maybe the player just happened to be pointed at a regular light when the screenshot was taken and everyone's about to get…

• Check out the 3D-printed details in this fiery BioShock PC build - 29 May 2024

  We love a bit of 3D printing action when it comes to PC modding, and PC builder Steve Grever has pushed the boat out with this fiery open-air build. Wanting to get away from the standard black box, Steve built this touch-screen-equipped PC in a red Thermaltake P3 chassis, featuring several custom 3D-printed PC parts made with matching red filament. There's also a Big Daddy from BioShock keeping an eye on the flames. Thanks to our rapidly growing PC building Facebook page , we've seen many custom gaming PCs, from mods based on existing case designs to scratch PC builds . You can even submit yours for consideration right here . Now let's chat to Steve about this Bioshock gaming PC . Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: BioShock creator calls canned FPS "the best game we never got to make" Grab all three BioShock games for a whopping 75% off right now Netflix's BioShock movie has t…

• Bioshock creator's new game Judas reportedly feels a lot like, er, Bioshock - 27 March 2024

  Following the fresh trailer for it that aired during late January’s State of Play showcase , we’ve now gotten some more info on Judas , the upcoming sci-fi action title from Ghost Story Games, the studio co-founded by BioShock creator Ken Levine. If you’ve been eagerly awaiting any news on the game since it was revealed back in late 2022 , you’ll be glad to hear that there are some gameplay impressions this time around. The verdict? Well, it sounds pretty interesting, and also plenty like, well, BioShock. Ghost Story Games invited both IGN and Geoff Keighley to sample 5 to 6 hours of it, and they’ve now shared what they thought of what they saw during that time. The former says that Judas is “a first-person narrative-driven shooter that, from a moment-to-moment gameplay perspective, will feel familiar to BioShock fans.” Read more

• BioShock creator calls canned FPS "the best game we never got to make" - 11 November 2023

  The director and creator of the original BioShock calls the studio's canceled co-op survival horror shooter the best game the team never got to make, as he and his slimmed-down studio continue to work on the BioShock-inspired sci-fi FPS Judas. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Grab all three BioShock games for a whopping 75% off right now Netflix's BioShock movie has the rights to both Rapture and Columbia Here's what BioShock looks like in Unreal Engine 5

• It’s your last chance to play Bioshock, Borderlands, and Stray via PlayStation Plus - 28 June 2023

  While we already know that the likes of Far Cry 6, Inscription, and more will be arriving on PlayStation Plus in due course, PS Plus subscribers will be bidding farewell to some stellar games during July. Meaning that unless you cough up some cash or find a different service to play them via, now is your last chance to give these games a go. The games leaving PS Plus can be found under the ‘Last chance to play’ collection on the PlayStation Store, and if they leave as the new batch of games arrives, they’ll likely be going on July 18 . The games to be removed from PS Plus are as follows: * Stray; * Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell; * Marvel’s Avengers; * Fluster Cluck; * Raiden V: Director’s Cut; * Rogue Stormers; * Bioshock Remastered; * Bioshock 2 Remastered; * Bioshock Infinite: The Complete Collection; * Borderlands: The Handsome Collection; Read more

• Grab all three BioShock games for a whopping 75% off right now - 1 June 2023

  Would you kindly play the BioShock games? The shooter trilogy is among the most influential set of FPS games around, with their gorgeously built worlds, immersive narratives, and frenetic combat that blends punchy weapons with magical abilities. If you've never explored Rapture or Columbia before, you owe it to yourself to check out the BioShock trilogy - and a Steam sale has them so cheap right now that you won't have to break the bank. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Netflix's BioShock movie has the rights to both Rapture and Columbia Here's what BioShock looks like in Unreal Engine 5 Humble crams $657 worth of stuff into a $20 bundle, and every penny goes to COVID relief

• BioShock 4 gets a narrative designer who's written for Ghost of Tsushima, Watch Dogs: Legion - 11 December 2022

  The next, currently untitled BioShock game has added a writer on Ghost of Tsushima as its narrative designer. "The dream is real!" wrote Liz Albl earlier this week. "So happy to announce I've joined Cloud Chamber as Narrative Lead on BioShock." Albl already has a number of writing credits under her belt, having written on games like Ghost of Tsushima, Far Cry 5, Watch Dogs: Legion, and more. It's been a while since we've heard anything about this fourth entry in the BioShock series, most of which has just been a lot of he-said, she-said rather than anything actually concrete. Back in 2020 some job listings gave us a bit of insight into what the game might be like, with a particular call for developers that have experience working on RPGs. Read more

• The Netflix Bioshock film adaptation has found its director and writer - 26 August 2022

  The waters are churning around the Netflix film adaptation of Bioshock today, as both the director and scriptwriter have been named in a public Twitter post from the official Netflix account. While it’s still very early days for the project — as you may expect considering the fact they’re only now announcing who is filling important roles on the project — it does mark a major milestone on the next big video game adaption from the massive digital media company. Looking at the roles, we have Francis Lawrence as the director. They’ve previously worked on well known blockbusters such as I Am Legend, Hunger Games: Catching Fire as well as both Mockingjay films. But forget all that — this guy also worked on Black Eyed Peas’ Pump It music video, as well as Gwen Stefani’s What You Waiting For, and Jennifer Lopez's Jenny from the Block. Gold star. Read more

• Netflix's BioShock movie finds its director in The Hunger Games series' Francis Lawrence - 26 August 2022

  Streaming giants Netflix have a BioShock movie to make and, after pointing their golf club at various directors, they’ve selected Francis Lawrence. He’s best known for overseeing three of The Hunger Games movies and is working on the prequel coming out next year, The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes. Netflix have also hired screenwriter Michael Green for the BioShock flick. Green wrote the Kenneth Branagh versions of Agatha Christie’s Murder On The Orient Express and Death On The Nile. I guess that means he’s got experience of period settings. Read more

• Netflix's BioShock movie has the rights to both Rapture and Columbia - 16 February 2022

  Netflix has revealed that a BioShock movie is in production, and the streaming service has the adaptation rights to the entire FPS game franchise. That includes BioShock Infinite , meaning Netflix could potentially incorporate the floating city of Columbia and characters like Elizabeth as well as the sunken city of Rapture if it so chooses. This week Netflix announced that it is "partnering to produce a film adaptation of the renowned videogame franchise BioShock" along with publisher 2K/Take-Two Interactive. Official Twitter feed Netflix Geeked posted the reveal alongside the cover art for the original BioShock, which shows the city of Rapture alongside the game's iconic Big Daddy and its Little Sister companion. It seems like the BioShock Netflix movie will be based on Rapture and the more popular BioShock 1, which is more of a horror game . However, as spotted by Twitter user Superer…

• Netflix are the latest to try to make a BioShock movie - 15 February 2022

  Netflix has announced a partnership with Take-Two Interactive to produce a BioShock movie. No writer or director is attached to the project, but it's the latest in several attempts to turn the 2007 first-person shooter into a big budget movie. Read more

• Ken Levine’s Ghost Story development team trapped in development hell – report - 3 January 2022

  A new report from Bloomberg (via Kotaku ) details the status of Ken Levine's small studio, Ghost Story Games, as being in a perpetual state of development hell and nowhere close to releasing a game. The studio, founded in 2014 at the same time Bioshock developer Irrational Games shuttered, was meant to be a small studio able to deliver on big ideas with publisher 2K’s financial backing. But that has yet to occur, and reports from former devs at the studio blame Levine’s managerial style for causing burnout and grief for everyone working there. One of those devs, co-founder Mike Snight, left the company with half the company’s other founders due to Levine’s “creative process”. Part of the problem was Levine’s desire to create a AAA-sized game with an indie-sized team. Compounding this is Levine’s perfectionism and temperament, which will often see to it that something worked…

• Here's what BioShock looks like in Unreal Engine 5 - 29 August 2021

  A talented developer has remade the original BioShock in Unreal Engine 5 and released a three-minute-long trailer to showcase their efforts - complete with combat, a whale, dialogue, an underwater Big Daddy fight, and several cats for some reason. Creator noodlespagoodle previously did a video of what BioShock would look like in Unreal Engine 4 back in 2014, and while other developers did more direct recreations of areas in the game they opted for an original area that recreated the feel of BioShock instead. Now noodlespagoodle has done something similar in Unreal Engine 5 (thanks DSOGaming ). The short demo uses the original textures from BioShock to keep faithful to the game, but the developer has created an original scenario in a new part of Rapture. It looks, feels, and plays like a better-looking remake of BioShock, complete with a lot of identifiable features such as the Gatherer'…

• Humble crams $657 worth of stuff into a $20 bundle, and every penny goes to COVID relief - 12 May 2021

  A fresh Humble bundle is here, and there's no need to worry about any charity sliders this time - this time, you're getting $657 worth of games, books, and comics in a $20 bundle, and 100% of the proceed are going to support COVID-19 relief through organisations like Direct Relief, Doctors Without Borders, International Medical Corps, and GiveIndia. You can pick up the Humble Heal COVID-19 Bundle here . On the gaming side, you're getting a load of both indie and triple-A classics, including Into the Breach, BioShock Remastered, Undertale, Baba Is You, The Witness, This War of Mine, Saints Row: The Third, Titan Quest: Anniversary Edition, Superhot, Wargroove, Brutal Legend, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Crusader Kings Complete and, yes, more. Every game is redeemable on Steam, and there are more than just games here, too. There are also a pile of digital books, including a number of guides to…

• What if we could shuffle plot twists each time we played? - 25 July 2020

  I love a good plot twist. I will always remember the moment in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic when I found out who my character really was, and always remember the moment in BioShock when I found out who the real baddie was. These things make a game, they sear it into our memories. But once you know the secret what then? The game is done more or less. You might get a bit of mileage from playing again and spotting the clues, but there are no real surprises left to be had, not unless you're Nier Automata but let's not go there now. But what if a story could change? What if it was fundamentally different a second time around? I got to thinking about this recently after talking to a man called Ray Winninger, the head of Dungeons & Dragons, tabletop side. He's only recently been appointed that position after spending many years away from Wizards of the Coast, but he's been involved w…