{"id":1572182,"date":"2026-05-06T22:58:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T22:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/HXcf4ARdezR79LvsM883pN"},"modified":"2026-05-06T22:58:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T22:58:04","slug":"take-two-chief-is-deeply-disappointed-that-we-still-dont-have-a-new-bioshock-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/take-two-chief-is-deeply-disappointed-that-we-still-dont-have-a-new-bioshock-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Take-Two chief is ‘deeply disappointed’ that we still don’t have a new BioShock game"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You’d think it would be fairly easy to make a BioShock<\/a> game: After all, “there’s always a lighthouse<\/a>,” as the man once said. Yet it’s proven remarkably challenging: After three acclaimed games in relatively quick succession\u2014BioShock in 2007, BioShock 2<\/a> in 2010, and BioShock Infinite<\/a> in 2013\u2014there’s been nothing. Efforts have been made: Hangar 13 was reportedly in the early stages of work on a new game in the series in 2018<\/a>, which even then seemed like an unusually long wait after Infinite. But it fizzled.<\/p>\n

In a new interview with Stephen Totilo’s Game File<\/a>, Strauss Zelnick, CEO of BioShock publisher Take-Two Interactive, said he’s not, strictly speaking, “surprised” that it’s taking so long to get a new BioShock game out the door. But he sure is disappointed.<\/p>\n

“Think about what \u2018surprise\u2019 implies,” Zelnick said. “That\u2019s like, one day, everything\u2019s awesome, and the next day, I\u2019m like, \u2018Holy shit.\u2019 And I don\u2019t run the business that way. But I think if you\u2019re saying \u2018disappointed,\u2019 yes. Deeply disappointed.”<\/p>\n

Zelnick said the next BioShock game is taking so long because it was difficult “finding the right creative purchase”\u2014that is, a concept the dev team could build out into a fully fleshed-out game. “I think we, in retrospect, wasted a lot of time and money chasing down some creative alleys that turned out to be dead ends.”<\/p>\n

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