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‘BioShock Collection’ Leaked By Ratings Board
A recent listing published by the Brazil Advisory Rating Board may have outed a BioShock Collection that’s headed to all major platforms, including PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One. This could be legit, seeing as we first heard about it back in September when South African retailer Raru listed the collection for a release on PS4 and Xbox One.
The listing doesn’t offer much in the way of details, and aside from the occasional reminder that BioShock is still a priority for 2K Marin even though the company has kept frustratingly tight-lipped on its future since series creator Irrational Games closed its doors almost exactly two years ago.
“They’ll make announcements in due time about any upcoming releases,” explained Take-Two head honcho Strauss Zelnick last November. “BioShock is unquestionably a permanent franchise for our company and one that we do believe in.”
If those words sound familiar, it’s because we’ve heard them a myriad time before whenever Remedy gets asked about Alan Wake or when EA has to remind us how much they still care about Dead Space. We’re going to get more BioShock, just as we’ll almost certainly get another Alan Wake and Dead Space. The problem is how long these sequels take to load.
The BioShock Collection has strange company in Dead Island: Retro Revenge and Days Gone, which were both leaked by ratings boards just this year.
In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, but it was a cheerful illustrator from England who helped to define the terrifying war-torn imagery that inspired what we now know as Grimdark (a hybrid genre combining horror with sci-fi/fantasy).
Unfortunately for fans of Warhammer 40,000, Trench Crusade and countless other sources of Grimdark thrills, veteran artist John Blanche passed away this week after struggling with health issues for the past few years.
While the artist retired back in 2023, he leaves us with an enormous legacy of iconic artwork that continues to inspire gamers and storytellers around the world to this very day.
The news is especially gloomy as it was only last year that Daniel Lowman and Napoleon Dynamite himself Jon Heder released The Grim & the Dark: The Search for John Blanche, a documentary following Heder’s exploration of the Grimdark genre culminating in a heartwarming encounter with Blanche in his own home.
Below is one of my favorite pieces by Blanche, his highly influential depiction of Warhammer 40k’s God-Emperor of Mankind on his Golden Throne.
We send our deepest condolences to John Blanche’s family, friends, and fans.
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