While the viral marketing website gave us some interesting hints and details to mull over, nothing satisfies your appetite for news quite like the meaty taste of actual gameplay footage. It looks like the first one for Bioshock 2 has hit the internet. Go here to see it first, because I’m going to be spoiling some of the details after the break. READ ON »

It’s another rarity for you this time around, folks–one of those handful of FPS shooters that didn’t leave me wanting to give back my lunch.  It’s BioShock, and it’s probably never been so relevant.

Positing an underwater city by the name of Rapture, a place where artists and scientists and industrialists can pursue their craft without fear of reprisal or societal backlash, in full accord with the principles of Ayn Rand’s objectivism movement.

You’ll have to go through Rapture and discover that maybe, just maybe, a little societal reprisal might not have been such a bad thing, in retrospect.  Especially when you consider just what they were up to down there in Rapture—they’ve developed weapons out of spare parts.  They’ve also been doing genetic research down there, leading to a line of personal genetic abilities called Plasmids.  And they sell them in VENDING MACHINES.  Anyone with a few bucks can basically buy a syringe full of genetically-altering whatnot, shoot themselves up, and be a pyrokinetic.  You literally have the ability to turn your forearms into hives for a race of killer bees, which you can telepathically order to attack targets on sight.
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