BioShock universe a "rich creative canvas" for many new stories

Ha. They thanked him for his contributions to the series. He wrote the damn thing into existence.

How aout do Bioshock collection to ps4 and xbox1 with all dlc before do more stoires of the series.

I am surprised to say the least about what people are saying about Bioshock in these comments. How does 3 games (developed by separate devs)in now SEVEN years even come close to milking? Especially when Infinite pretty much stands seperate from 1 and 2. If we get another Bioshock game...which I PRAY we do. Its at LEAST 3 years from this point right now...at LEAST which would put us at 4 games in 10 years. Which for COD will be about 25 games and Assassins Creed 15. If COD didn't exist which isn't even in the same universe as Bioshock in terms of development I doubt we would hear the word "milking" anytime a sequel is mentioned.

If 2K plan on making more Bioshock games I don't understand why they couldn't have made the effort of keeping as much of the team together at Irrational as possible. No matter what angle I look at it from I just can't understand why anyone had to lose their job.

I definitely loved the concept and somewhat the execution of the first 2 games. Infinite had so much potential but fully reneged on the roleplaying aspects.

When there's atleast limited roleplaying in the Bioshock universe give me a call. I mean morally grey decisions, not this choose good or evil crap.

let the milking start

infinite was incredibly generic. How rich can a canvas be if you only paint it with the colors your comfortable with

I didnt much care for these games. Infinite is over rated!

Bioshock: Judgment

Bioshock sucked from the beginning, I will never understand the hype surrounding this franchise. Whatever this guys "creative" inspiration is for laying off his employee's I'm sure it will be as bad as bioshock.

He's probably going to make some crappy little mobile game.

RIP future bioshock games

You can do some cool things with Bioshock so I guess I can give any news games a try. If they screw up though I'm getting the hell out.

Please don't make anymore, you're only going to feck things up.

I'd welcome a BioShock game on the Vita, but other than that I don't see what more can be done with the franchise.

I so hope Levine actually left due to the recent Zone animation. He's been such a nutjob spaz about any sort of sexy fanworks of his "e-daughter" Elizabeth, it's hilarious.

I don't see how you can have anymore Bioshock games after Infinite. It pretty much wrapped up everything, if they wanted more games they should have held off on Infinite.

You know what Bioshock needs? Monkeys.

LET THE MILKING COMMENCE

2K and not Levine made the best BioShock game IMO, and although the chances of it being shamelessly milked are pretty high, it's still better off being in 2K's hands. Heck, all Levine really did is just make a dumbed-down immitation of System Shock 2 anyway.

Well if quantum mechanics is anything to go by there is technically an infinite number of alternate universes your could utilise. Thinking about it, it is a good job this wasn't EAs game. Imagine if EA had a franchise that was built on a potential infinite number of worlds? We'd have a yearly release for the rest of time.

the headline to this article makes me think of like the buzzards have come to pick the carcass clean while the meat is still fresh. :(

I think they should go to outer Space in for the next Bioshock with like a Rapture/Columbia space station. Seems like a plausible next move for the franchise. Reclaim that feeling of isolation and fear from the first game. It could build off of alternate reality 1950s lore from the first moon walk and the conspiracy theories of aliens and stuff. Mix in all the other trademark Bioshock stuff like plasmids, big daddy's, and audio boxes then have it looking all awesome on next gen only hardware. I would buy it. So would you I bet.

It's gonna be Bioshock 2 all over again :'(

Surely they mean Bioshock "Universes"? That's their first mistake...

And so.. the milking begins..

I also hope the poor 185 people who a) helped make on the best games of last year and b) just got laid off aren't reading these comments.

Bad enough to be unemployed. Salt in the wound that the people who played a game you slaved over think you didn't have a damn thing to do with why it was good.

It may be ripe for more stories, but if Ken Levine was the reason those stories were so awesome, then they'll have a hard time getting someone to match the brilliance.

Good luck to 2k games with the series. It's not going to be easy.

Jesus, Levine must have handed out the spiked Kool Aid on the way out. Look this dude is talented as hell, really he is, but he's also a megalomaniac and a great self promoter.

It's garbage without him? It's gonna be F2P with microtransactions? He is the only developer than can make great games, even with this universe?

Seriously. If Ken is reading these comments, he's dancing the happy dance. And he's giving his PR guy a raise.