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The BioShock 2 That You'll Never See

An enormous preserved whale pays quiet homage to the undersea world of wonder that was BioShock. In this concept artwork, it looks like a tiger-striped whale on treads is bearing down on our intrepid hero ... or is that thing stuffed and segmented? The image does capture the melancholic feel of BioShock, although it's missing the art deco curves and steampunkery of the world from the original game. Check out more pieces in the gallery below, and find out why this you won't be getting your game on in this world. More »

1:45 PM on Mon Mar 3 2008
By Kevin Kelly
4,871 views, 15 comments

Latest by HootieMac: Section 9 Reject: I expect Bioshock 2 to follow a line similar to Jurassic Park: The Lost World (book, not movie.) It'll be set in a surface city that was built as a prototype or support outpost for Rapture. I will more »

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Stackable City Of the Oddworld Dead

In the series of Oddworld video games, where you play the messianic, farting mudokon Abe, you come across a city of the dead called Necrum. It's a very creepy place, as you can see from this artwork, and looks like a landscaper's nightmare. Just scaling those palm tree tower things along would be fairly death-defying, and that's just if you could manage to quit looking at the Chuck-Jones-on-acid landscape. More »

9:30 AM on Fri Jan 4 2008
By Kevin Kelly
7,925 views, 10 comments

Latest by mathew: Yeah, Oddworld Inhabitants died when they pissed off their entire PlayStation fanbase by announcing that upcoming games would be Xbox-only. Sales were dismal, so after a couple of games Microsoft spat out the husk of their company. more »