Surfer Girl, the mysterious prophet who has become the gamer’s Oracle of choice, today shares with us gossip from 2K Boston concerning the development of BioShock 2. After pointing to a Gamasutra job posting that stated the BioShock creators were setting up a new studio in the Bay area, the Surfing woman of mystery delved deeper into the story behind this relocation:
2K Boston is still recovering – a good chunk of the BioShock team did not want to work with Ken ever again, and 2K definitely understood the sentiment and let them set up a new studio so that they can make Bioshock 2, leaving Ken with Project X. A good chunk of the other senior 2K Boston people who were sick of Ken but didn’t move to San Francisco ended up scattering to other AAA developers instead. In Quincy, they’re essentially rebuilding a team from almost scratch again.
As ever, this is all conjecture until something rock-solid is seen, but since everything Surfer Girl says seems to cause a stir, it’s worth at least taking on board. If it’s true, Ken Levine is not a popular man and clearly didn’t win over any friends during the development of BioShock. Also, what would a new team bring to a franchise that Ken seemed to have his hands all over?
