{"id":901502,"date":"2025-12-24T08:33:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T08:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/supposed-bioshock-4-screenshot-confirms-its-a-video-game"},"modified":"2025-12-24T08:33:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T08:33:14","slug":"supposed-bioshock-4-screenshot-confirms-that-yes-it-is-a-video-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/supposed-bioshock-4-screenshot-confirms-that-yes-it-is-a-video-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Supposed BioShock 4 screenshot confirms that yes, it is a video game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/supposed-bioshock-4-screenshot-confirms-that-yes-it-is-a-video-game.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re not gonna believe this. An apparent screenshot from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/games\/bioshock\">Bioshock<\/a> game that&#8217;s currently in the works has leaked online, and, assuming it&#8217;s genuine, it tells us one thing we&#8217;ve all been hoping to learn about the title. That it&#8217;s a video game.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, take a look at the image, which <a href=\"https:\/\/mp1st.com\/news\/report-bioshock-4-screenshot-surfaces-giving-us-look-early-look-at-ui-shotgun-and-more\">MP1ST<\/a> claims has been unearthed from the showreel of a visual effects artist working for publisher 2K, and you can see clear as day, Bioshock 4, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/bioshock-development-codename-parkside\">reportedly codenamed &#8216;Parkside&#8217;<\/a>, is probably in line to be one of those doodads we all like to play with a controller, or mouse and keyboard, or a dance pad.<\/p>\n<p>In it, the player&#8217;s holding a gun, dubbed the &#8220;Ricochet Shotgun&#8221;, and is looking straight at some kind of glowing orb mounted on a stand. Maybe they&#8217;re contemplating it for some reason, or maybe the player just happened to be pointed at a regular light when the screenshot was taken and everyone&#8217;s about to get very excited about something you might buy for your back garden if you were Andrew Ryan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/supposed-bioshock-4-screenshot-confirms-its-a-video-game\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/supposed-bioshock-4-screenshot-confirms-its-a-video-game\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re not gonna believe this. An apparent screenshot from the Bioshock game that&#8217;s currently in the works has leaked online, and, assuming it&#8217;s genuine, it tells us one thing we&#8217;ve all been hoping to learn about the title. That it&#8217;s a video game. Yep, take a look at the image, which MP1ST claims has been unearthed from the showreel of a visual effects artist working for publisher 2K, and you can see clear as day, Bioshock 4, reportedly codenamed &#8216;Parkside&#8217;, is probably in line to be one of those doodads we all like to play with a controller, or mouse and keyboard, or a dance pad. In it, the player&#8217;s holding a gun, dubbed the &#8220;Ricochet Shotgun&#8221;, and is looking straight at some kind of&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/supposed-bioshock-4-screenshot-confirms-that-yes-it-is-a-video-game\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":901503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[11071,1070,12026,259,1154,7623,7625,8053,527,3460,773,159,11072,410,8711,59,3532,844,34,86,54,5926,534],"class_list":["post-901502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vg24-7","tag-2k-china","tag-2k-games","tag-2k-marin","tag-action-adventure","tag-bioshock","tag-bioshock-2","tag-bioshock-infinite","tag-d3-publisher","tag-digital-extremes","tag-feral-interactive","tag-first-person","tag-ios","tag-irrational-games","tag-mac","tag-multiplayer-competitive","tag-pc","tag-playstation-vita","tag-ps3","tag-rpg","tag-shooter","tag-single-player","tag-take-two-interactive","tag-xbox-360"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Supposed BioShock 4 screenshot confirms that yes, it is a video game | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"You&#039;re not gonna believe this. 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