In very saddening news, the folk at 2K Games have just made an announcement that they intend to move Bioshock 2 back to the first quarter of 2010! Apparently they need more time to further develop the game, and also not compete in the fourth, Christmas quarter '09 with heavyweight titles like Infinity Ward's Modern Warfare 2.
You can read the full press release here, although I didn't really understand a lot of it. Just know that they are serious when they say they are delaying it for deliberate reasons. These devs are also delaying the release of Mafia 2 and prolonging the development of Max Payne 3. Horrible stuff.
Now we really have to pray for Activision-Blizzard to come out with Diablo 3 by year's end, otherwise we'll have nothing fun to play... save Modern Warfare 2, which seems to have already destroyed all the competition prematurely.
Another game dev Raven with new IP Singularity said in a press release for their own game's delay:
“The level of excitement for Infinity Ward’s Modern Warfare 2 coming out of E3 well exceeded our expectations and therefore we have decided to move Raven’s upcoming sci-fi first person action title, Singularity, from 2009 to Q1 2010, said the spokesperson. We believe that the March quarter will provide a better opportunity to establish the new cutting-edge action IP as a must-have title and clears the way for Modern Warfare 2 to dominate this holiday season.”
Damn.
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