Fuck this list, where’s Camu Tao’s Perfect Plan?

Weren’t you happy that I did though? : )

Good god! How many languages do you speak? I’m envious.

Thanks honkwas.

We’ll have more Southie Stories later in the month, crowe.

For every feature that ends up in a game, 10 more are proposed and dumped during the pre-production phase, and another five on the road to final release*. The handful of examples that follow offer a window into the different ways that BioShock and System Shock 2 might have turned out.

*These aren’t hard figures. Include [...]

Division 9 Pitch Demo
Before the studio began work on BioShock, and as it wrapped production on its PC shooter, SWAT 4, Irrational wondered, “What next?” Publisher Vivendi proposed another SWAT sequel. Creative Director Ken Levine “wanted the money really badly.”

But while the serial killer’s unsettling hideaway in SWAT 4 suggested what Irrational hoped [...]

Verge, where did Giantbomb mention us? That’s awesome.

Going forward, the Vault will become a grab bag of items too short to sustain their own features. Today, it’s home to the following five pieces of concept art, discussed in the Irrational Behavior podcast’s premier episode, that show what BioShock might have been.

Dog in a Wheelchair

Before BioShock’s “gatherers” became Little Sisters in an artistic [...]