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Superman launches on HBO Max on September 19, Warner Bros. has announced. The DC Universe kickstarter arrives on the streamer just over two months after it hit theaters in July and with $615 million at the global box office under its belt.

Superman will debut on HBO linear on Saturday, September 20 at 8pm ET. A version of Superman with American Sign Language (ASL) will also stream exclusively on HBO Max, interpreted by Deaf ASL Interpreter Giovanni Maucere and directed by Leila Hanaumi (Barbie with ASL, The Last of Us with ASL).

Expect to see an in-app Superman takeover on HBO Max, which transforms the homepage and adds features you can interact with. These include a Daily Planet Homepage takeover with refreshed art, style, and specially designed content rails, and a The Fortress of Solitude page with themed curations. There are even hidden portals throughout the homepage that transport users to Lex Luthor’s Pocket Prison.

Superman hits HBO Max after what appears to have been a successful run in theaters. It made just over $615 million theatrically, making it the first and likely only superhero movie of 2025 to pass $600 million. Most of that money was made in North American theaters (Gunn has offered his thoughts on why Superman is doing better domestically than internationally).

Last month, DC Studios co-chief James Gunn made the surprise announcement that Superman would see its digital release on Friday, August 15 — just over a month after the film launched in theaters. Gunn blamed this relatively early home release on HBO Max TV series Peacemaker Season 2, which follows on directly from the events of Superman and serves as a prequel to Gunn’s Superman follow-up, Man of Tomorrow.

Last week, Gunn revealed the first details on Man of Tomorrow. In previous interviews, Gunn had teased his next writer / director movie wasn’t going to be a straight up Superman sequel. Man of Tomorrow will instead see Superman and Lex Luthor team up to face a greater threat, with Gunn revealing: “it’s as much a Lex movie as it is a Superman movie.”

Not everyone is the DIY type. If you're in the market for a prebuilt gaming PC, Dell is one of the best brands we'd recommend. Alienware desktops and laptops feature solid build quality, top-of-the-line gaming performance, excellent cooling (further improved on the newer models), aggressive styling, and pricing that is very competitive with other pre-built options. Best of all, there are plenty of sales that happen throughout the year, so it's not difficult to grab one of these computers at considerably less than their retail price.

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You can pick up an Alienware 16X Aurora gaming laptop equipped with an Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX CPU and GeForce RTX 5070 mobile GPU for $1,599.99 after a $300 instant discount. This is the best Alienware laptop for gamers on a budget.

More than 75 game announcements, trailers, exclusive clips, and celebrity interviews will be featured when a brand-new special edition of IGN Fan Fest arrives October 15.

Streaming across all IGN platforms, IGN Fan Fest 2025: Fall Edition will see the likes of Keanu Reeves, Aziz Ansari, and other A-listers stop by to reveal exclusive looks at major upcoming movies and streaming series. We’ll also be announcing brand-new video games and showing off never-before-seen looks at some of the year’s biggest gaming titles.

IGN Fan Fest 2025: Fall Edition kicks off October 15 at 9am PDT / 12pm EDT / 5pm BST with a special one-hour pre-show filled with even more gameplay, trailers, and first looks.

Then, the main event streams on IGN.com, YouTube, Steam, Facebook, twitch, and X starting at 10am PDT / 1pm EDT / 6pm BST.

Days of Our Lives' current 61st season has included a shoutout for one of Nintendo's lesser-known franchises, much to the surprise of fans.

A recent episode of the long-running soap saw Salem University student Aaron flirting with classmate Arianna outside his dorm room. Looking for an excuse to invite her in, Aaron boldly suggests Arianna might like to wait inside, in order to "play Xenoblade on my Switch." I'd have gone for Mario Kart World, personally, but there we go.

To the surprise of Aaron — and, let's be honest, everyone at home watching — his offer is taken up by Arianna, who awkwardly laughs and steps inside, looking like she really did not have anything else better to do. Aaron, bless him, looks genuinely surprised his suggestion worked — as well he should.

In this scene from the long-running American soap opera Days of Our Lives (s61e008), Aaron uses playing Xenoblade as an excuse to invite Arianna into his dorm room. pic.twitter.com/LQ9kCVmuyC

— Nintendeal (@Nintendeal) September 15, 2025

The moment has since been turned into a clip and uploaded by Nintendeal to social media, where many Nintendo fans are celebrating someone remembering that Xenoblade exists. (To those who were hoping for a new game announcement in last week's Nintendo Direct, I hope you're doing okay.)

Developed by Monolith Soft, the Xenoblade Chronicles series began back in 2010 on Wii, with subsequent years featuring half a dozen sequels and re-releases. The most recent of those, a new version of Wii U side-story Xenoblade Chronicles X, launched for Switch back in March, at a time when most Nintendo fans were just waiting for Switch 2.

"This show has 61 seasons and I've never seen any bit of it until Xenoblade was mentioned," wrote Zhenghua Yang, founder of To the Moon developer Serenity Forge, after watching the clip. "Top tier marketing."

"I know nothing about this show but Aaron is already my favorite character and there is no question about it," wrote another fan, AmiibroN.

Originally launched in 1965, Days of Our Lives is (still) running — now on streaming service Peacock. For anyone who has watched the full episode, do let us know what happened next.

Image credit: NBC/Peacock.

Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You can reach Tom at tom_phillips@ign.com or find him on Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social

If you're looking for a new survival game to obsess over, Lost Skies officially goes from Early Access to full release on September 17. As the name suggests, you're doing a lot of grappling and gliding in the game, exploring floating islands to unlock technology and collect raw materials, but the core of the game is its detailed, physics-based ship-building system. There's co-op for 1-6 players too, so you don't have to fly alone. If you haven't checked it out yet now is the perfect time, and here are a few details to tempt you to take off.

PSA for sufferers of airsickness

Lost Skies is all about exploring ruins and biomes, collecting resources to craft and refine a skyship, so you're spending all your time at high altitude. You'll start out with a grappling hook for shorter distances, then craft a makeshift glider, and by combining the two you can chain movement that will let you get to the harder to reach areas. Once you have enough materials to start crafting your skyship it will become a home base and a weapon war.

You are not alone

The various regions of the Lost Skies world are home to strange creatures, like the Blue Manta that travels through the skies, but will attack if provoked, or the burrowing Spitter Motus Beetle that rudely shoots balls of acid at you. Those are the least of your worries though - there are also the Seraph, strange mechanical looking enemies that are powerful and use nano-technology to devastating effect. They're are not to be trifled with. You do have someone on your side though, an AI companion called ASA that can help explain the strange lands you find yourself in, and stop you turning into a weird sky loner.

Something really bad happened

Like most survival games, there's a terrible event that has left you trying to craft your own underpants or going toe to toe with an enraged boar. In Lost Skies it's not the old zombies or aliens stuff, but something called the Cataclysm. AI companion ASA helps you decode the clues you find scattered around ruins, and figure out how the monstrous mechanical Seraph are involved.

You can create your own Lost Skies islands

If you're the sort of person who doesn't just want to live in a world, but to shape and control it too, maybe check in with a therapist and then try the Lost Skies Island Creator. This free tool allows players to sculpt and populate an island, and use assets from the game to refine and populate it. There are already hundreds of player made islands.

It's made by the Surgeon Simulator folks

It might look whimsical, but Lost Skies is made by the studio that brought you cult hits like Surgeon Simulator. That was the cult where you had to perform complex medical procedures with tricky physics-based controls. Many virtual patients died, but hilariously. They also created the self-explanatory I Am Bread and I Am Fish. Lost Skies is definitely a vibe shift, but one that takes the bare bones physics-engine skills of Bossa and makes it real pretty.

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Rachel Weber is the Senior Editorial Director of Games at IGN and an elder millennial. She's been a professional nerd since 2006 when she got her start on Official PlayStation Magazine in the UK, and has since worked for GamesIndustry.Biz, Rolling Stone and GamesRadar. She loves horror, horror movies, horror games, and French Bulldogs. Those extra wrinkles on her face are thanks to going time blind and staying up too late finishing every sidequest in RPGs like Fallout and Witcher 3.

Calling all Friends fans, especially if you live in the Big Apple or are planning a trip there soon.

The beloved Central Perk coffeehouse from the iconic 90s sitcom is becoming a reality, with a permanent location coming to Manhattan this fall. The space will be located in the bustling neighborhood of Times Square on the corner of 47th Street and 7th Avenue, and it will be the second permanent location for the brand, which opened a coffeehouse in Boston back in 2023.

Central Perk has been a fixture on social media because of their much attended pop up coffeehouses that brought a taste of Friends to different cities in a limited engagement setting. But now the brand is debuting a “modern-day version” of the cafe in the city the show was set, but didn’t actually film in, interestingly enough.

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The original Star Wars movie has been adapted as a Marvel Comics series, several video games, and a radio play, but did you know it also inspired a manga adaptation? Dark Horse Comics is celebrating Hisao Tamaki's award-winning manga with the release of a new art book called The Art of Star Wars: A New Hope - The Manga.

With the crowdfunding campaign for The Art of Star Wars: A New Hope - The Manga now live, IGN can exclusively debut a new preview of the book. Check it out in the slideshow gallery below:

Star Wars: A New Hope - The Manga was originally published in 1997, timed to the 20th anniversary of the film. Tamaki ultimately won the Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of Foreign Material. This volume painstakingly reproduces Tamaki's artwork using scans of the original art boards.

Dark Horse will release The Art of Star Wars: A New Hope - The Manga in stores in Summer 2026, but the Kickstarter campaign offers fans the chance to purchase the book early, with various exclusive bonus options. The standard Collector's Edition features a new English translation printed in the margins in order to preserve Tamaki's artwork and lettering. The book is available in several other versions, including signed and slipcase editions as well as a Masterpiece Edition that reproduces the art in its original 10.85” x 15.05” format. Backers can also purchase an additional Tamaki Art Print Set that features six full-size prints of select pages.

“This is Star Wars like you’ve never seen it,” said Dark Horse President, Founder and CEO Mike Richardson in a statement. “We’re sharing Hisao Tamaki’s legendary manga with fans in an edition that not only showcases the art, but also offers an unprecedented glimpse into the creative process behind it.”

The Art of Star Wars: A New Hope - The Manga is live on Kickstarter now.

In other Star Wars news, Marvel's Legacy of Vader series just filled in some big holes regarding the Knights of Ren, and Andor Season 2 won a key award at the Emmys.

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Marvel's upcoming The Fantastic Four: First Steps Blu-ray will feature five deleted scenes, with at least one seemingly centered on Mole Man.

The movie's physical editions for 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD will arrive October 14, Entertainment Weekly has reported, following a digital release next week on September 23. Boxed copies will also contain other special features, such as three featurettes, a gag reel and an audio commentary featuring director Matt Shakman and production designer Kasra Farahani.

The Fantastic Four: First Steps' selection of deleted scenes will likely be of most interest to fans, however, following sizable cuts by Marvel to the movie's runtime shortly before launch — including the complete removal of John Malkovich's character Red Ghost.

Paul Walter Hauser's Mole Man and Natasha Lyone's character Rachel Rozman remained in the film, meanwhile, though both ended up feeling underutilised its final cut. Indeed, Mole Man's friendship with Sue Storm felt particularly unexplained — something actress Vanessa Kirby has said was established in a deleted scene that theater-going audiences never got to see.

Included in The Fantastic Four: First Steps' physical release will be:

• Thanksgiving Soup Kitchen
• Fantastic Four Day
• Subterranea
• Birthday Sweater
• Taking Turns

"Subterranea" almost certainly features more of Mole Man — and is potentially the scene featuring Hauser and Kirby. "Thanksgiving Soup Kitchen," meanwhile, sounds like a scene featuring Ebon Moss-Bachrach's The Thing, with potentially more from Lyone's character.

Discussing why so much was cut from the film, director Matt Shakman previously claimed that Marvel "intentionally wrote and shot a lot more than we ended up using, or needing to use". Some of this cut material, including the subplot featuring Malkovich's character, would have acted as a backstory showing how The Fantastic Four became established as superheroes. But other scenes were removed from later on in the movie's runtime, too.

"How long can we spend getting to know and love these characters in their environment? How much is too much? You never know until you start to put it together and feel it out for yourself," Shakman said. "There was a ton of stuff we shot that was really wonderful that we didn't use, couldn't use."

Shakman has also previously said that Malkovich's scenes will never be released publicly, as they were incomplete and required extensive CGI work. Still, here's hoping the five other moments listed above help provide Marvel fans a slightly more complete picture of how The Fantastic Four's first steps into the MCU might originally have looked.

Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You can reach Tom at tom_phillips@ign.com or find him on Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social

If you caught The Long Walk in theaters and can't wait to grab a copy for your physical media library, Amazon's here to make your day. An Amazon Exclusive 4K steelbook of The Long Walk is officially up for preorder at the retailer, coming to $34.99 (see here at Amazon).

Of course, since it only just released in theaters, there's no official release date locked in for it yet, but it's well worth it to secure a copy for yourself now in case it sells out. That way, it can be delivered to you the day it's available.

Preorder The Long Walk Amazon Exclusive 4K Steelbook

This steelbook features Mark Hamill's character The Major front and center, with the contestant's dog tags on the back. There's also a sleeve that goes over the steelbook which fills in The Major's sunglasses with a reflection of the walkers, which is a cool touch. It comes with a 4K, Blu-ray, and digital copy of the film as well. Below, you can learn more about bonus features.

The Long Walk Amazon Exclusive 4K Steelbook Bonus Features

• Alternate Ending
• Stephen King: An Appreciation
• Cooper & David Scene Read
• "Ever Onward: Making The Long Walk" Multi-part Documentary
• Theatrical Trailers

Our 8/10 review of The Long Walk had quite a lot of praise for it. IGN's Tom Jorgensen wrote, "Anchored by strong performances from Cooper Hoffman and David Jonsson, The Long Walk overcomes the repetitive nature of its story to deliver a timely and powerful condemnation of normalized violence… with some seriously brutal, R-rated violence."
For physical media collectors, there are plenty more movies and shows up for preorder at the moment alongside The Long Walk that are worth checking out. In our roundup of upcoming 4K UHD and Blu-rays, you can see a variety of releases coming out over the next few months so you can plan ahead on what to pick up next.

Hannah Hoolihan is a freelancer who writes with the guides and commerce teams here at IGN.

Big news for Batman fans: writer-director Matt Reeves has, in fact, delivered a new script for his sequel The Batman: Part II — but it wasn’t necessarily an easy road for the filmmaker to get to this point.

The Batman 2, which starts filming early next year, currently has a release date of October 1, 2027. If it does come out then, The Batman 2 will arrive five-and-a-half years after The Batman. Indeed, Reeves has said he set out to make a trilogy of Batman films, and as of last year that plan was still on.

“It’s been a journey that is taking longer than I would’ve wanted for a lot of reasons, a lot of personal reasons,” Reeves told The Hollywood Reporter on the Emmys red carpet this weekend. “But [the] most important reason is getting it to a place where I just felt like it was the best script we could possibly write.”

He also noted that the film is set to shoot next year now that the script is in. “We’re getting ready. We’re basically entering prep,” Reeves added. “We’ll be making the movie in the spring.”

Reeves also spoke about star Robert Pattinson’s response to the script — which, believe it or not, was mailed to him in a privacy pouch complete with coded entry (that Pattinson almost couldn’t open, mind you) to keep all of the exciting details completely under wraps.

“He’s Batman, and if he doesn’t like it, not good,” the Cloverfield director said of Pattinson’s feelings on the script. “I was super excited. I thought that he really would [like it] because the things that it does for his character, for Batman and for Bruce, have never been done before in this way. I had a feeling that he would respond in this way, but the fact that he did was incredibly encouraging.”

He added, “Obviously because of what the first movie was and what this movie is, which is so much a detective story, the idea of trying to protect the secrets of the movie is super important because it’s a mystery. It would be an extra level of heartbreak if that part of it started getting out.”

Reeves also spoke about where the HBO’s spinoff series The Penguin stands in terms of Season 2. “We’re in discussions. [Showrunner] Lauren [Lefranc] is thinking hard and we’re talking, so we’ll see,” he told Variety at the Emmys. “We love the show, and we think our cast is so incredible. The work that Lauren and the writers did was incredible. Our passion was in it, but never in our wildest dreams could we imagine it would have been received in the way that it was.”

The series took home a solid nine awards between the Primetime Emmys broadcast and the Creative Arts Emmys ceremony a week prior — including Best Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology series for Cristin Milioti as Sofia Falcone.

Meanwhile, James Gunn has his own plans for the DC Universe’s Batman, who he has insisted won’t be played by Robert Pattinson. While promoting the rebooted DCU kickstarter Superman earlier this year, Gunn admitted: "Batman's my biggest issue in all of DC right now."

Lex Briscuso is a film and television critic and a freelance entertainment writer for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter at @nikonamerica.

Players were enamored by the BioShock series from the moment they escaped a crashed aircraft, entered a mysterious lighthouse, and embarked on their undersea voyage to the crumbling city of Rapture. Often referenced and paid tribute to, many consider Irrational Games’ immersive action-horror classic a masterpiece, and in the years following its debut, it blossomed into a long-running franchise.

But in classic BioShock fashion, its sequels were the furthest thing from traditional. As expected for a series that hinges on otherworldly scientific discoveries and reality-tearing experiments, BioShock's story frequently switches between alternate universes, leaving its games out of chronological order.

With news of a Bioshock movie on the way, you may be wanting to try our or revisit the series that started it all. So, for those looking for a linear way to play through BioShock’s full narrative, here’s a quick runthrough of the BioShock series in chronological order.

Jump to:

• How to play in chronological order
• How to play by release date

How Many BioShock Games Are There?

In total, there are four BioShock Games (three released on home console and PC and one released exclusively on PC via web browser) and three expansions.

This list won’t include remasters or ports, including the BioShock Collection, which bundled remasters of the full trilogy and its expansions. It also won’t contain challenge map packs, such as Clash in the Clouds or BioShock’s Challenge Rooms DLC, as these are purely gameplay-focused and thus considered non-canon.

Which BioShock Game Should You Play First?

It's best to begin where the franchise did with the original BioShock. The first game laid the foundation for the franchise from a gameplay and narrative perspective, exploring big socio-political ideas within a confined, thoughtfully crafted space. It's necessary to play through the original to fully understand and appreciate the must-play BioShock Infinite, especially its Burial at Sea DLC. And despite debuting 17 years ago, BioShock is perfectly playable today, thanks to a 2016 remaster and a stylized aesthetic that has aged considerably well.

Every BioShock Game in Chronological Order

These blurbs contain mild spoilers for each game, including characters, settings, and story beats.

1. BioShock Infinite: Industrial Revolution

Launching as a pre-order bonus for BioShock Infinite, BioShock Infinite: Industrial Revolution was a browser-based flash game that acted as a prequel to Infinite’s story. Casting players as a worker completing cog-based puzzles, Industrial Revolution allowed pre-ordering customers to unlock special items and upgrades that transferred to BioShock Infinite.

As players completed challenges, they learned more about the conflicts running through Infinite’s world, including the battle between the Vox Populi and the Founders. They could even choose which of the two groups to support, unlocking different rewards as a result.

Note: The game was shut down a decade ago and is no longer available to play online.

2. BioShock Infinite

The third mainline BioShock game, BioShock Infinite follows a Pinkerton detective named Booker Dewitt. Drowning in debt, Dewitt is tasked with a simple mission to wipe away what he owes: venture to the city of Columbia and locate a mysterious girl named Elizabeth.

However, when Dewitt arrives in Columbia, things are far from simple. Columbia is a city floating above the clouds and its citizens have branded Booker a “False Shepherd”, rallying together to execute him. Things get even stranger when Booker finally locates and rescues Elizabeth, who reveals she can open tears in reality, allowing her to reach into other universes.

Teaming with Elizabeth to escape Columbia, players are taken on an adventure through the flying metropolis, facing off against the locals, their towering mechanical security bots, and Elizabeth’s relentless bodyguard, Songbird. Along the way, they can open rifts to other dimensions using Elizabeth's unique powers, utilizing her gifts to scrounge up resources or venture into new realities altogether.

Read our review of Bioshock Infinite.

3. BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea - Part 1

Set in the same universe as BioShock and BioShock 2, BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea - Part 1 is the first of two expansions for BioShock Infinite. The DLC follows an alternate-universe Booker Dewitt who acts as a private detective in the city of Rapture. Set before Rapture’s downfall, the game begins with Dewitt meeting Elizabeth, who tasks him with assisting her in rescuing a missing girl named Sally.

Burial at Sea’s first part allows players to explore a fully operational Rapture set before the events of the first game. Alongside getting to see the city as it once was, the DLC includes several returning faces from previous Rapture adventures, including Sander Cohen and Yi Suchong.

Read our review of Burial at Sea Episode 1.

4. BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea - Part 2

Taking place directly after the events of Burial at Sea - Part 1, Burial at Sea - Part 2 switches control from Booker to Elizabeth. Waking up after the dramatic conclusion of the previous expansion, Elizabeth meets Atlas, who strikes a deal with her: He’ll let her and Sally live if she can help him escape Fontaine's Department Store and return to Rapture.

Taking on a new stealth-focused playstyle to fit Elizabeth's skill set, players explore Fontaine's Department Store, attempting to figure out how to return to Rapture and save Sally. Burial at Sea - Part 2 was Irrational Games’ and BioShock creator Ken Levine’s final take on the BioShock universe. It attempts to wrap up some of the franchise’s biggest mysteries while directly setting up the events of the original game.

Read our review of Burial at Sea Episode 2.

5. BioShock

The franchise's debut entry, BioShock follows Jack, the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash. Escaping the wreckage of the accident, he finds refuge in a mysterious lighthouse, where he discovers a submarine that transports him to the underwater city of Rapture. Although the city looks like a technological marvel from afar, Jack quickly realizes it’s hardly the oceanic utopia it appears to be.

Envisioned as a neon-lit metropolis where society’s greatest minds are allowed ethical and creative freedom with no governmental intervention, Rapture is a fallen wasteland by the time Jack arrives. The blood-drenched streets are patrolled by monstrous citizens slaughtering each other in search of a genetic-splicing drug known as Adam, while the city’s shadowy founder, Andrew Ryan, controls the ruins with an iron fist.

Teaming with a fellow survivor named Atlas, players are tasked with venturing through the city, attempting to escape Rapture and return to the surface. Along the way, they gain access to plasmids, powerful injections that unlock elemental powers. In the years following its release, BioShock has become a classic, with many regarding it as one of the best games of all time.

Read our review of Bioshock.

6. BioShock 2

A sequel to BioShock, BioShock 2 was developed by 2K Marin rather than Irrational. Strapping players into the hulking suit of a Big Daddy, BioShock 2 has players return to the submerged dystopia of Rapture eight years after the events of BioShock.

Taking control of a Big Daddy codenamed Subject Delta, the story follows the towering protagonist searching through the ruins of Rapture for a Little Sister he used to protect. Along the way, he’s pursued by Sofia Lamb, a scientist who’s filled the power vacuum left by the deaths of Frank Fontaine and Andrew Ryan.

BioShock 2 was largely a continuation of the gameplay and themes of the first game, albeit with a hefty arsenal of brutal Big Daddy weaponry and a new mechanic where players defend Little Sisters while they scavenge Adam.

Read our review of Bioshock 2.

7. BioShock 2: Minerva’s Den

An expansion for BioShock 2 that occurs alongside the events of the main campaign, Minerva’s Den follows a second Big Daddy codenamed Subject Sigma. Tasked with tracking down and accessing The Thinker – Rapture’s computer mainframe – Sigma works alongside the creator of the system, Charles Milton Porter, to retrieve it.

Minerva’s Den offered a short campaign that fills in some crucial Rapture lore and offers new gear, including the Ion Laser and Gravity Well Plasmid. Minerva’s Den currently marks the end of the BioShock timeline.

Read our review of Bioshock 2: Minerva's Den.

How to Play the BioShock Series by Release Date

• BioShock (2007)
• BioShock: Challenge Rooms (2008)*
• BioShock 2 (2010)
• BioShock 2: Minerva’s Den (2010)
• BioShock Infinite: Industrial Revolution (2013)
• BioShock Infinite (2013)
• BioShock Infinite: Clash in the Clouds (2013)*
• BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea - Part 1 (2013)
• BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea - Part 2 (2014)

*Non-canon

What’s Next for BioShock?

Plans are theoretically underway for a new Bioshock game, but its been a rocky road. 2K officially announced the series was getting another entry back in 2019, which we are tentatively labeling Bioshock 4. Following the closure of Irrational Games, the game was passed over to developer Cloud Chamber, and then development went pretty quiet. This past summer, 2K confirmed that lay-offs at Cloud Chamber had impacted the game's development (the bad news), but that they are still pushing forward, now with Rod Fergusson (best known for the Gears of War series) on their team.

A sequel isn't the only long-awaited BioShock product currently in production. Back in 2022, Netflix revealed it had greenlit a movie adaptation of the original BioShock. Netflix later confirmed the film will be directed by I Am Legend and Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes director Francis Lawrence. Producer Roy Lee recently confirmed that the movie is still in active production and is specifically adapting the first Bioshock game.

BioShock creator Ken Levine’s next project, Judas, is also deep in development. From the early glimpse we saw at The Game Awards in 2022, it seems akin to BioShock, from the dual-wielding combat to the high-concept sci-fi setting. If all goes to plan, it seems BioShock fans will be feasting on a banquet of twisted sci-fi goodness over the next few years.

Callum Williams is a freelance media writer with years of experience as a game critic, news reporter, guides writer and features writer.

The latest PS5 system update will finally allow your DualSense controller to pair across multiple devices without having to de- and re-pair every time you switch.

Sony said that as many of us use our PS5 controllers across numerous devices, such as PCs, Macs, tablets, and more, it "believes enabling compatibility of our peripherals across multiple platforms creates a more flexible and seamless gaming experience." This means that when you change from, say, playing on your PS5 to jumping on Steam, you won't have to keep un- and re-pairing your device.

It'll work by assigning each device to a different "slot" on your device that you can set by pressing a combination of the PS button and one of the action buttons (triangle/circle/cross/square). You'll then be able to save four devices simultaneously and cycle between them using the PS button and the corresponding action button.

You'll see between one to four indicator lights depending upon which slot and device you're connected to. Here's how Sony breaks it down:

The feature initially rolled out for testing earlier in the summer, but it'll shortly be available for all. To ensure you're using the latest update, head to Settings > System > System Software > System Software Update and Settings.

Additionally, the update also enables players to enable a Power Saver option via Settings > System > Power Saving > Use Power Saver. "Future updates for games such as Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Demon’s Souls, and Ghost of Yōtei will include support for the Power Saver option, with more titles to follow," Sony added.

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