User blog:Gardimuer/BioShock 2 coming to Mac, and other news

Here's some holiday news to raise gamers' spirits: BioShock 2 will finally be released on the Mac OS X in January of 2012.

The port has been handled by Feral Interactive, the same studio that was responsible for the Mac port of the first BioShock. Mac gamers can pre-order a boxed version of the game from the Feral Interactive store for $35.00. Other online stores (including Gamersgate, MacGames.fr and Direct2Drive) will offer BioShock with BioShock 2 as a bundle deal.

Gamers Notes
In a deep interview with Gamers Notes, Ken Levine talked about his life growing up as a geek and what led him to the games industry.

Now Gamer
Now Gamer quizzed Levine about the kinds of choices that would be available in BioShock Infinite:

Access TV
Access TV also interviewed Levine. In the interview, Levine gave a nod to Bethesda, the developers of Skyrim, who took inspiration from BioShock ' s Plasmid system when designing the magic in their game. Levine noted that in the game industry inspiration goes both ways, and that Irrational probably gets as much inspiration from Bethesda as Bethesda gets from them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGZ2FKaEPkk

He also had a few interesting things to say about Booker DeWitt's back story.

Fink Manufacturing
In another interview, Ken Levine talked a bit about the Fink Manufacturing area revealed in the Spike TV VGA trailer.

Handymen and the "Alphas"
Nate Wells talked a bit about the Handyman enemies in BioShock Infinite during an interview with X-Play's Adam Sessler.

Music in the VGA Trailer and Reactions
As noted by Ken Levine in his tweets, there was a miniature uproar over the supposed fact that Ken Levine had removed the word "Lord" from the old-timey gospel tune used in the BioShock Infinite VGA trailer.

However, Ars Technica did a thorough job of debunking that claim. It turns out that levine did his homework well when choosing period appropriate music, because the word "Lord" was never in the original version of the song that was penned in 1907. You can read more about that here: "Oh, Lord: Ken Levine didn't remove religious lyrics from Bioshock Infinite trailer"

Ken Levine talked to GameSpot about the music he chose and how the recording was made: