Take-Two opens 2K Marin

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Following rumors last month that former 2K Boston BioShock developers are starting a new studio in California, Take-Two made it official today by announcing the formation of 2K Marin. And that's pretty much all the company had to say. Take-Two fed a standard line that the new studio will focus on creating original intellectual property, but will also help in other established 2K brands.

The terse announcement of 2K Marin's formation will be followed up with game announcements early next year according to insiders we've spoken to. Game development announcements are expected on or before GDC in February. At this point we know that 2K Marin exists, but anything beyond that is still hush-hush.

Source: Joystiq (http://www.joystiq.com/2007/12/17/take-two-opens-2k-marin-former-bioshock-devs-reportedly-on-staf/)

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Apparently the people that left 2k Boston to join this new studio are people that couldn't stand working with Ken Levine. The unnanounced game that they are working on is Bioshock 2. That's right... the man who made Bioshock will have nothing to do with the sequel.

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Apparently the people that left 2k Boston to join this new studio are people that couldn't stand working with Ken Levine. The unnanounced game that they are working on is Bioshock 2. That's right... the man who made Bioshock will have nothing to do with the sequel.

If he was as much an ass as they made him sound...I wouldn't work with him either.

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Apparently the people that left 2k Boston to join this new studio are people that couldn't stand working with Ken Levine. The unnanounced game that they are working on is Bioshock 2. That's right... the man who made Bioshock will have nothing to do with the sequel.

Yep, this has been building for a few weeks and just officially announced. I remember being in a game of CoD 4 with Exane, D0c, and L3gion and mentioning that 2K was opening a new studio to develop Bioshock 2 without Levine because they all thought he was an ass.