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Judas lets you "truly inhabit a character" in a way BioShock didn't, and Ken Levine says the game "spent 5 years in just R&D" to make sure NPCs respond to every choice

"We wanted to make a Judas simulator"

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Ken Levine on BioShock, Ayn Rand, and Libertarianism

"What does completely, completely unregulated commerce look like?" Ken Levine's Bioshock will tell you.

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Bioshock creator Ken Levine's new narrative FPS Judas was shaped by a "stream of consciousness" where an anti-social character prefers vending machines to people: "Conversation is a prelude to failure"

The protagonist of Judas isn't a fan of restaurants

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BioShock director Ken Levine isn't as worried while working on upcoming FPS Judas, but he used to find it "really depressing" to decide if he should stick to one style like Hideo Kojima: "Games are so hard to make"

"What exactly is a BioShock game?"

GamesRadar

Ken Levine says Judas might look a bit like Bioshock, but it's 'really radically different'

"This is probably the biggest radical departure we've made since I did BioShock."

PC Gamer

"I don't think it works super well": BioShock creator Ken Levine hasn't been involved in BioShock 4's development, and he's not sure if people would want him to "come in and punch things up" anyway

"Me just coming in [...] and saying X, Y, and Z, that's not really how games are made"

GamesRadar

After 11 years, BioShock Infinite’s creator finally talks Judas — and it’s all about betrayal

We finally saw signs of life for Judas from developer Ghost Story Games, with creative director Ken Levine sharing what players can expect from the story.

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Bioshock creator Ken Levine reveals new details about his next game Judas and its central Villainy gameplay mechanic

After over a year of radio silence, Bioshock creator Ken Levine has finally emerged to provide an update on his next game, Judas.

TechRadar

Judas must be getting closer, because Ken Levine just rolled out its first-ever dev log and some new art

The debut dev log talks about how you'll make enemies and influence people in its Shock-like world.

PC Gamer

Ken Levine's new BioShock-like game Judas carries the torch of Monolith's Nemesis System: "They can bribe you, save you in battle, talk s*** about the other characters, and share with you their darkest secrets"

Ken Levine is finally talking about Judas, and he is literally talking about BioShock

GamesRadar

Ken Levine’s BioShock successor Judas still in development, with a new gameplay system that decides who the villain is based on your actions

I almost forgot about this one, but it sounds very promising

Destructoid

BioShock 4: Everything we know so far about the long-awaited sequel

BioShock 4 may be in development, but brace yourself for a shakeup.

PC Gamer

BioShock 4 has "had some ups and downs along the way," but Take-Two CEO promises "hand on heart, without question" that the immersive sim is "going to come out"

"We have very big shoes to fill on BioShock because of the legacy of Ken Levine"

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Ken Levine wanted System Shock 2's final level to be set in outer space, but the idea was shot down by its senior designers: 'They're like dude, we have 14 months to make this game'

"I still went and made a level that looked entirely different and played entirely different."

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BioShock maestro Ken Levine says Judas is 'very old school' because 'you buy the game and you get the whole thing… no online component, no live service'

Though he doesn't "blame anyone for trying to make a living."

GamesRadar

BioShock creator says "audiences reward" single-player games that don't have "other methods of monetization," like Baldur's Gate 3, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

"I'm just grateful that we're allowed to not do that because that just frees us to purely design the game for the player's experience"

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OG BioShock director recommends one very BioShock-y Steam Next Fest game that already has 500 "very positive" reviews

Set in a twisted take on Disney World... need I say any more?

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Ken Levine never expected Take-Two to shutter Irrational after Bioshock Infinite: 'The decision was made at a corporate level'

"Take-Two did a BioShock remaster: That would have been a good title for Irrational to get their head around."

PC Gamer

BioShock maestro Ken Levine says Judas will double down on reacting to player choices because it's the future of games: 'I've never been a big fan of cutscenes because they're not interactive'

You know what? Sounds good to me.

PC Gamer

Ex-Bioshock lead Ken Levine says the problem with AAA games is how risk-averse they've become: 'If you don't innovate, especially in games, you start losing people'

"Look at the Marvel Cinematic Universe—you stop taking risks and people just tune it out."

PC Gamer

Bioshock's Big Daddy Ken Levine says that while he doesn't want to 'underestimate' AI, he's 'not overly impressed' by it, either

"What it can't do is tell me a really compelling story … it gets extremely confused."

GamesRadar

BioShock Infinite “may not have been the thing I wanted, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it wasn’t the thing the audience wanted”: Ken Levine guides us through his entire gameography

Edge: The Collected Works | From immersive-sim innovation, through undersea peril, and onto new beginnings back out in space, Ken Levine talks through his impressive and iconic gaming portfolio in his own words

GamesRadar

BioShock's Ken Levine calls his most iconic FPS "a very, very long corridor," but his next game Judas is "made very, very differently"

"This may be a bit alienating to some readers - but they're basically a corridor"

PC Gamer

Exploring the 'twisted road' of Irrational's doomed XCOM game—from fighting aliens 'the size of entire city blocks' to a multiplayer mode where you could be the aliens

Inside the many promising, abortive concepts the BioShock developer came up with.

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