BioShock Exclusive to Microsoft

If you want to play the awesome-looking new game, you are going to have to get yourself an Xbox 360 or a PC.

Console exclusivity is all the rage these days, it seems, and there's not a week that goes by without either an announcement or a rumour tethering a game or loosing its shackles. 2K Games is joining the chorus with a pre-emptive scuppering of talk surrounding its new game BioShock.

The game, which is being made by System Shock developer Irrational Games, will not be calling any system home but the Xbox 360 and the PC, under the new Games for Windows banner.

Thanks to its creepy atmosphere in an underworld utopia gone awry and its interesting gameplay ideas, BioShock has managed to eke out a spot in gaming's consciousness, and there had been some talk recently that it would be skipping to other systems. No more.

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The confirmation is a coup for Microsoft, which seems to be checking all the necessary boxes to bring the fight to Sony in a big way in this generation. BioShock will be just one of the strong points working in the company's favour. Irrational Games is hoping to get the game out sometime next year.

Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo