Release Updates For Bioshock, Many Other Titles

There have been several updates to game releases and showings this week. Probably most interesting is the news that the much-anticipated Bioshock will release in August, as opposed to the 'June-ish' timeframe we had previously. GTA and Civilization fans have much to look forward to next year; GTA IV's downloadable content, as well as new Civilization content are both due out in 2008. GTA IV itself is due out later this year. If anyone but me was wondering when the MMOG 'Bigworld: Citizen Zero' would be coming out, you can stop wondering: it's been canceled. The sci-fi title was to feature a world where players re-discovered their past on a penal colony where everyone's memory had been erased. Developer Micro Forte has been working on the game for some seven years now, and they've now publicly announced it just won't happen. Instead, they're now working on a spy-themed title. Finally, RPG fans will be getting their fix next week. Tabula Rasa and Mass Effect will be on display at GDC. More details will finally be available for both of these intriguing but mostly-enigmatic titles.

Comments

Hey at least they know they won't finish anything

[CrazyJim1]

Developer Micro Forte has been working on the game for some seven years now, and they've now publicly announced it just won't happen. Instead, they're not working on a spy-themed title. I'm also not making a FPS based in the Tokien world.

Delays are OK with me.

[antdude]

Delays = Better games, less bugs, etc. I'd rather wait than have a crappy buggy game.

Re:Delays are OK with me.

[SheeEttin]

So why isn't Vista all that great? It has been delayed for years...

Seven Year Ditch

[aapold]

Micro Forte was such a tease....

Er?

[Rob T Firefly]

If anyone but me was wondering when the MMOG 'Bigworld: Citizen Zero' would be coming out, you can stop wondering: it's been canceled. The sci-fi title was to feature a world where players re-discovered their past on a penal colony where everyone's memory had been erased.

That sounds like something I would have liked. How come I haven't heard about it until now? Or at least, I don't remember hearing about it before now... oh, dear.

Re:Bioshock - What went wrong?

[MeanderingMind]

The problem with screenshots is that they are limited. This is a fault of every single console post 16-bit era.

When you take a screenshot of polygonal models in motion, you are missing out on a lot of the finer points of what makes polygons so useful. Namely, animation. This is an often overlooked, yet absolutely paramount, component of a game's graphics.

With a still image you can selectively choose a moment/viewing point where none of a model's flaws are apparent. In screenshots for FPSs since their dawn did we ever see official screenshots displaying how weapons and limbs could clip through doors? Of course not!

It will always be every company's goal to make their product look as good as possible. This is true of Sony, of Microsoft and of Nintendo.