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‘Gone Home’ Shares The Same Universe As ‘BioShock’
First off, if you haven’t played the amazing indie game Gone Home yet, you really should get on that. Immediately. And now that we have that out of the way, let’s dig in to the news.
In the seventh episode of Tone Control, Fullbright Company co-founder Steve Gaynor had some very intriguing things to say about the universe that Gone Home, BioShock, and even System Shock are all set in. Apparently, they’re one and the same. Gaynor revealed the Easter Egg and how they accomplished it, “In a totally non-litigious way, we very lightly imply that it also takes place in the same universe as BioShock.”
They did this by linking the games through subtle reference that most gamers are sure to have missed. In BioShock 2’s excellent Minerva’s Den DLC, you can find a video game called Spitfire. In Gone Home, its sequel, Super Spitfire, can be found inside the house. I even remember coming across the game during my playthrough, and I didn’t make the connection, even though I’ve also played through Minerva’s Den (several times — it’s really good).
It’s fairly common knowledge that BioShock is a spiritual successor to one of Irrational’s older games, System Shock 2, but Gaynor and his team took that a step further.
“Again in a totally non-litigious way, we very lightly imply that BioShock takes place in the same universe as System Shock,” Gaynor continues. “So, in theory, if you were to make a lot of logical leaps, all of those games have been linked together by our ridiculous retconning.”
Was Gone Home a Matrix-style simulation crafted by SHODAN? Maybe.
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While you wait for Alien: Romulus, the folks over at Devilworks have cooked up their own slice of “mockbuster” fun with Alien Hunt, and we’re debuting the trailer here on BD this morning.
This brand-new sci-fi horror from director Aaron Mirtes (The Bigfoot Trap, Painted in Blood) is set for its US premiere on May 14, and you can find it on digital thanks to Devilworks.
You can exclusively watch the official trailer for Alien Hunt below, which looks to combine elements of Alien and Predator. This particular “mockbuster” has very little interest in hiding its inspirations, with the alien designs plucked straight out of H.R. Giger’s beautiful brain. Hey, if you’re going to pull from other movies, might as well take from the all-time greats!
In Alien Hunt, “On a hunting trip in the wilderness, a group of siblings discovers an abandoned military outpost on their land, but is it what it seems?
“Their trip takes a sinister turn when they find themselves facing off against a relentless army of extra-terrestrial beings. Suddenly, the hunters become the hunted.
“The formidable squad of alien soldiers will stop at nothing to wipe out the enemy and in an all-out, brutal battle for survival, it’s kill or be killed in Alien Hunt.”
Barron Boedecker (Escape Pod, The Bigfoot Trap), Brent Bentley (The Perfect In-Laws, Haunt Season), Deiondre Teagle (The Visitor, Painted in Blood, Death Ranch), Chelsey Fuller (The Bigfoot Trap, The Silent Natural), Jesse Santoyo (A Nashville Country Christmas, Potter’s Ground), and Adam Pietripaoli (The Bigfoot Trap, The OctoGames) star.
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