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Irrational head Ken Levine has said it’s “disappointing” the online community has focused on BioShock Infinite heroine Elizabeth’s “chest” instead of her character, saying any sex symbol status was never his “intent”.

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The Lost, a game which has never seen release in English-speaking territories, laid the foundations for Irrational Games’ masterpiece.

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Ken Levine has said there is still a deal in place to have a BioShock movie made, but that it’s not being pushed.

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“We’ve got the Move controls working now back at the studio, certainly more so than we had when we announced it at E3, and really we’re just waiting for the opportunity to show that with a new piece of content. It’s working well but we still have a lot of polishing to do. Of all the motion controllers in the world, the Move is the one best suited to a first-person shooter, and a lot of PlayStation games have done a great job incorporating it. I will say that we’re discovering some great opportunities with the Skyline gameplay, but rather than show it to people with an old demo, I’d prefer to show it with a new piece of content.” – Irrational’s Ken Levine to the PS Blog on how the Move controls in Infinite are coming along.

Irrational’s Ken Levine has said the team is handling boss battles in Infinite a bit differently than it did with the original BioShock.

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Reaffirming that a planned BioShock game on Vita won’t be a port of an existing game, Ken Levine has said some development may be outsourced – but only if the right partners can be found.

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Whether or not Rockstar Games is hard at work on a sequel, Take-Two Interactive has paused for a moment to reflect on just how very well it has done for itself. The publisher has just released a bunch of sales data for Grand Theft Auto IV, and it’s none too shabby.

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“When I was working on Andrew Ryan, the two things that were most formative to me were reading [Ayn] Rand, and then I watched a documentary about Joseph Goebbels. It wasn’t his evil that struck me, it was the fact that he felt like such a victim. Even though he’s obviously a villain, in his mind, he wasn’t. Everybody’s the hero of their own story; if you can’t find something that makes them great, you don’t have a tragic character. These [are] characters that struggle between their view of the world and their realities of the world. There’s that dissonance that turns them into an antagonist for the player. It’s not just because they want to be.” – Irrational’s Ken Levine on creating villains to Gamasutra.

Irrational’s Ken Levine has explained in more detail the role Elizabeth with play in BioShock Infinite to RPS, and according to the man himself, she’s a “very you-centered AI,” so you won’t be “obligated” to watch out for her like you would a character in an escort mission.

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According to a developer at Naughty Dog, the original Uncharted bore a surprising resemblance to Bioshock at one point early in development.
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Irrational boss Ken Levine has confirmed that his new BioShock project for Vita will be a brand new game in the series’ universe.

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Irrational boss Ken Levine’s just appeared on stage to announce that BioShock Infinite will support PlayStation Move. The news came after the airing of a new trailer.

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Below is your afternoon addition of shorts, and they are rather short. Who sports short-shorts? Why, we do of course!

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BioShock creator Ken Levine has said publisher Take Two signed off on the game’s complex themes without hesitation.

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Irrational Games gave a talk on BioShock: Infinite at PAX East yesterday, describing what it will be like using the game’s Skyline to get around and showing off some of the visual ideas it used for the game.

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Take Two gave a full update on software sales numbers at the Wedbush Morgan Technology, Media and Telecommunications Conference yesterday, confirming big figures for Rockstar and 2K franchises.

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2K has confirmed that the Protector Trials DLC for BioShock 2 has been released on the Games for Windows Marketplace. However, don’t download it just yet.

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Director Gore Verbinski has said the reason the BioShock movie deal feel through was due to the fact it was going to be an R-rated film instead of PG-13.

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Whatever the explanation for the recent quiet delay of the official BioShock novelisation, we know it must be getting close: Ken Levine has completed the foreword.

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Looks like we spoke too soon; the long-awaited BioShock novelisation has once again been pushed back, this time to July.

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