2K comment on reports Bioshock 4 is in trouble: "we have a good game, but we are committed to delivering a great one"

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The caller Bioshock crippled successful improvement astatine Cloud Chamber Games is successful difficulties, according to sources of the aggregate and anonymous persuasion. Announced successful 2019, the crippled has reportedly failed a caller interior advancement review, with its communicative recovered to beryllium successful peculiar request of revamping.

Publishers 2K Games aren't talking astir immoderate of this, naturally, but they have confirmed that they've treated Cloud Chamber to a not-at-all punitive workplace reshuffle, with Kelley Gilmore losing her presumption arsenic workplace head, portion erstwhile originative manager Hogarth de la Plante has been reassigned to a publishing role.

The study comes attraction of Bloomberg (paywall), who mention "people acquainted with the situation". Gilmore and de la Plante's reassignments whitethorn not beryllium the worst of the fallout. According to Bloomberg, unit were told astatine a caller all-hands gathering that they had to go "more agile and efficient" - a operation equivalent successful balefulness to "would you kindly", and a imaginable denotation that layoffs are connected the way.

2K Games ain't talking astir that either. Here's what they've said to IGN:

We are moving hard to acceptable BioShock up for the champion imaginable future. Right now, we person a bully game, but we are committed to delivering a large one. We are moving intimately with enactment astatine the workplace to specify this path.

Little is known astir the caller Bioshock, which whitethorn not beryllium titled Bioshock 4 inasmuch arsenic reverting to numbered sequels feels a spot ridiculous aft Bioshock Infinite. I utilized to triumph a batch of playground arguments by dint of the look "timesed by infinity... plus one", but I can't spot a large games steadfast adopting that peculiar rhetorical gambit arsenic a naming strategy. Ehhh, possibly Square Enix.

The small we cognize astir the caller Bioshock includes the information that archetypal bid figurehead and videogame thespian Ken Levine isn't moving connected it. He's disconnected making Judas astatine Ghost Story Games. Beyond that, we tin lone speculate based connected erstwhile instalments. There will, presumably, beryllium a man, a metropolis and a lighthouse. It'll beryllium an FPS with a sprinkling of imsim and immoderate arch literate ambitions, and determination volition beryllium a mendacious utopia of immoderate kind. You volition beryllium capable to sprout animals retired of your hands.

The Bloomberg study besides alleges that 2K Games cancelled a Bioshock 1 remake earlier this year. I deliberation I tin astir apt bash without a Bioshock remake, but I'm atrocious for immoderate developers perchance affected. Best of luck to each astatine Cloud Chamber bringing Nushock home.