robio said:

Nope not yellow. I just checked the crayon box and that is "lumenescent eggshell."

I thought only women use weird terms like that; men just say yellow.

robio said:

Nope not yellow. I just checked the crayon box and that is "lumenescent eggshell."

First gif coat hem. Unless you want to call it gold?

Dvader said:

The greatest color of all.

Your sig is proof of that brother. (Y)

I want to do a podcast or just record a segment this week. I should be available late afternoon night on wed or thur.

This site needs more Gaminggeek.

So I was with a patient when my ass started to feel like it was going to explode. Gas was building, I did not want to unleash whatever mega fart was going to come out in the exam room. Luckily it was a part of the test where the patient is basically resting while the machine was taking a reading so I just excused myself quickly to go to the bathroom. Phew. My job isnt that important, Steel what happens where you are in surgery or performing an important exam and you need to go.

Iga_Bobovic said:

Dvader said:

So I was with a patient when my ass started to feel like it was going to explode. Gas was building, I did not want to unleash whatever mega fart was going to come out in the exam room. Luckily it was a part of the test where the patient is basically resting while the machine was taking a reading so I just excused myself quickly to go to the bathroom. Phew. My job isnt that important, Steel what happens where you are in surgery or performing an important exam and you need to go.

When you got to go, you got to go. Just make up an excuse that the patient died because of some rare complication!

"I'm sorry ma'am your husband died due to farticulitis."

Iga_Bobovic said:

Speaking of dieing Irrational Games is shutting down!

What?! Thats irrational!

A Message From Ken Levine


When Jon Chey, Rob Fermier and I founded Irrational Games seventeen years ago, our mission was to make visually unique worlds and populate them with singular characters.

We built Rapture and Columbia, the Von Braun and The Rickenbacker, the Freedom Fortress and some of the nastiest basements a SWAT team ever set foot into. We created Booker and Elizabeth, the Big Daddy and the Little Sister, MidWives and ManBot. In that time, Irrational has grown larger and more successful than we could have conceived when we began our three-person studio in a living room in Cambridge, MA. It’s been the defining project of my professional life.


Now Irrational Games is about to roll out the last DLC for BioShock Infinite and people are understandably asking: What’s next?


Seventeen years is a long time to do any job, even the best one. And working with the incredible team at Irrational Games is indeed the best job I’ve ever had. While I’m deeply proud of what we’ve accomplished together, my passion has turned to making a different kind of game than we’ve done before. To meet the challenge ahead, I need to refocus my energy on a smaller team with a flatter structure and a more direct relationship with gamers. In many ways, it will be a return to how we started: a small team making games for the core gaming audience.


I am winding down Irrational Games as you know it. I’ll be starting a smaller, more entrepreneurial endeavor at Take-Two. That is going to mean parting ways with all but about fifteen members of the Irrational team. There’s no great way to lay people off, and our first concern is to make sure that the people who are leaving have as much support as we can give them during this transition.


Besides financial support, the staff will have access to the studio for a period of time to say their goodbyes and put together their portfolios. Other Take-Two studios will be on hand to discuss opportunities within the company, and we’ll be hosting a recruiting day where we’ll be giving 3rd party studios and publishers a chance to hold interviews with departing Irrational staff.*


What’s next?


In time we will announce a new endeavor with a new goal: To make narrative-driven games for the core gamer that are highly replayable. To foster the most direct relationship with our fans possible, we will focus exclusively on content delivered digitally.


When I first contemplated what I wanted to do, it became very clear to me that we were going to need a long period of design. Initially, I thought the only way to build this venture was with a classical startup model, a risk I was prepared to take. But when I talked to Take-Two about the idea, they convinced me that there was no better place to pursue this new chapter than within their walls. After all, they’re the ones who believed in and supported BioShock in the first place.


Thanks to Irrational and 2K’s passion in developing the games, and the fans who believe in it, BioShock has generated retail revenues of over a half billion dollars and secured an iconic place in gaming. I’m handing the reins of our creation, the BioShock universe, to 2K so our new venture can focus entirely on replayable narrative. If we’re lucky, we’ll build something half as memorable as BioShock.


We do our best to update an FAQ in this space as questions come in.


-Ken Levine

@iglevine


*If you’re a 3rd party interested in interviewing some of the best game developers in the world, please contact chris.bigelow@2k.com

The real story from gaf:

No, Take-Two told him he couldn't keep the studio going as is and offered him this as the only option to keep anyone on board, but obviously he's not going to say that publicly.


They didn't mention BioShock Infinite in their recent fiscal report. It's pretty obvious it was not up to expectations sales wise and they're unwilling to keep going with Irrational's cost structure and dev lengths.