The Xbox 360 version of BioShock 2 topped the sales charts in February, moving half a million copies in a month packed with big game releases, the NPD Group said Thursday.

Boosted by BioShock, Dante’s Inferno and continued sales of Modern Warfare 2, the Xbox 360 was the best-selling home game console in the U.S. last month. On the software side, Wii hits New Super Mario Bros. and Just Dance continued to sell boatloads, and Sony’s innovative Heavy Rain had a ..read the full article

The rusting ruins of a dead underwater paradise, built on the desperate dreams of a madman; the survivors, drugged into insanity; the decaying corpses of those who hung themselves rather than live another day in Rapture.

Ah, BioShock’s watery hell remains just as I remember it. You can go home again, after all.

That nightmarish setting was the star of acclaimed 2007 shooter BioShock. Without the fascinating, highly detailed underwater city of Rapture to give players a profound sense of place, the ..read the full article

The launch trailer for BioShock 2 gives fans a taste of what it’ll be like to become a Big Daddy, one of the hulking behemoths who terrorized players of the first game.

The trailer doesn’t use in-game footage, but transitions from a more cinematic and haunting perspective to the first-person view, a rare move for videogame promos.

But since BioShock 2 is a game about immersion (in more ways than one) it makes sense that 2K Games would want to remind ..read the full article

Check out the latest screenshots from 2K Games’ upcoming BioShock 2. As a reminder, this first-person shooter game will hit PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 on February 9, 2010. More pictures after the break.

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2K Games has come out with a new gameplay trailer ‘Electric Hands’ showing off the Electro Bolt plasmid in action. As a reminder, this first-person shooter game will hit PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 on February 9, 2010. Watch the video after the jump.

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Seasteading didn’t quite work out for libertarian ideologue Andrew Ryan in BioShock, the creepy game released in 2007 to widespread acclaim. Ryan’s underwater utopia collapsed, thanks in part to genetic enhancements that gave superhuman powers to the denizens of Rapture, turning it into a saltwater kill zone.

In BioShock 2, one of the most anticipated game sequels ever, you awake eight years after the where the original left off. You’re missing all your memories but you know what you are: a ..read the full article

BioShock 2 won’t wash ashore until February of next year, but developer 2K is trying their best to prevent us from going into total plasmid withdrawal with their “Faces of Rapture’s Civil War” series, which takes a closer look at some of the characters comprising BioShock 2’s newly added multiplayer component.

“The citizens of Rapture’s Civil War were not always monsters,” writes Cult of Rapture’s Community Manager Elizabeth Tobey. “Once, they were hailed as geniuses — brilliant minds burning brightly — ..read the full article