Earlier today Kevin Levine, the co-founder of Irrational Games, announced that he’s significantly downsizing the studio responsible for the Bioshock series.
This meant that most of the employees have been laid off, barring about 15 developers. Since then, an interesting hashtag has made its rounds on Twitter.
Ken Levine is one of the greatest and most famous writers and game designers in video game industry. His BioShock series deal with a lot of political subjects and he has interesting opinions about his surroundings. In his recent interview with an Iranian media, he talks about politics, philosophy and his way of creating games.
I respect the political writing as well. He's everywhere. Here's another interview at something called rezzed and mentions the new game and studio. https://youtu.be/uHkZQBilEX...
New game starts around the 15 minute mark. His next game basically a beefed up version of the nemesis system in shadows of Mordor. A dynamic narrative built into the nemesis system which he calls "limited and rudimentary". Not as an insult but to describe how ambitious the system is. Hopefully these pop ups means an e3 presence.
With Frank Fontaine, Irrational Games made a villain that wouldn't have the same impact in any other medium.
Today, Irrational Games announced it has changed its name to Ghost Story Games.
Well Kevin Levine is back. Hopefully if this does well and he gets his rest he might want to come back to Bioshock someday. I'd love another Bioshock set in another altered multiverse
Although with this game being a Sci Fi FPS it could be Bioshock with a City on the Moon
So does this mean bioshock for vita is a no go? wasn't this rumored or even announced a few yrs back?
Wow, much support to everyone out there!
The industry does this every time a studio closes down, especially a great team like Irrational. These are some of the most talented people in entertainment.
These guys are amazing!!!! I hope hey are snatched up and fast... its sad that Irrational is done!
MS, Sony, Rockstar, Crytal Dynamics, Bethesda! These guys need to snatch up this talent! hell. Sony or MS should hire them all and have them form a new studio to make games exclusively for their platform! Sony Preferably! :) But seriously. this pool of talent should be at home at a studio where their talents are best used, sad to see them go.
MS seriously needs to snatch up as many of them as they can, and form a new team under MGS. I'm still sick over how they let BioWare get away; no JE2, or KOTOR3 is a travesty.
EDIT: @ Sevir...LOL, we must have had a mind link going on or something.