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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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An Underwater City Gone Wrong

This concept artwork from 2K Games' BioShock shows one of the most starkly dystopian video game worlds created in the past several years. Here you can see one of the observation areas in a city that has seen better days. More »

3:20 PM on Wed Jan 2 2008
By Kevin Kelly
4,349 views, 14 comments

Latest by papercup mixmaster: This picture is reminiscent of the eerier locations in LucasArts classic The Dig, wherein Earthling astronauts are whisked away in an asteroid to a distant and abandoned planet once home to an advanced civilization.I for one would like to see more »

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A Robot's Vision of Antarctica's Undersea Kingdom

This looks like a rocket entering a wormhole, but it's actually a robot camera designed to function on the ocean floor under the Anatarctic ice. The Submersible Capable of under Ice Navigation and Imaging (SCINI) can fit through a hole in the ice as small as 15 cm. Similar cameras could one day probe a buried ocean on Saturn's moon for unknown life forms. Click through to see the sea life under the polar ice. More »

11:00 AM on Fri Dec 21 2007
By charliejane
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