According to reports, Bioshock 4 has undergone a narrative overhaul in the development struggle

Bioshock 4 is currently underway for some development overhaul after commenting recently at 2K Games executives. Bloomberg's new report.

According to the report, the new biochemical game has been developing over the past decade, executives have particularly criticized their narrative issues. The studio is allegedly working to overhaul the story in the coming months.

The struggle for Bioshock 4 has obviously also led to the deletion of Kelley Gilmore, head of Cloud Chamber Games Studio, and the transformation of creative director Hogarth de la Plante to a publishing role. In a recent all-round hand, employees were told that the company needed to be Bloomberg, “more agile and more efficient”, which has caused some workers to worry about layoffs that could arise.

2K Games confirmed the change in Gilmore and De La Plante’s role to Bloomberg and shared the following statement:

We are working hard to provide the best future for BioShock. Currently, we have a great game, but we are committed to providing a great game. We are working closely with the studio’s leadership to define this path.

We first heard about the report that BioShock 4 is under development Back to 2018when it was still very early in the process. The second year is formal Confirm to be developed in the new Studio Cloud Chamberbut was told at the time that the team was at the “early end of our process.” It can also be confirmed that the original “Biosy Creative Director Ken Levine” did not work in the game, but focused on his own project Judas, on “Ghost Story Games” (which is worthy. However, many other biohawk veterans are said to be working on it, including De la Plante, Art Director Scott Sinclair and design director Jonathan Pelling.

In the years since, we have had few details we have obtained on BioShock 4. It won't happen in any settings in previous games,That Probably an open world. In 2022 Pick up the former ghost of Tsushima writer Liz Albl is the leader of the narrative. last year, Images that may come from leaking onlinealthough it was allegedly conducted from a demonstration in early 2021.

Given that we haven't seen the gameplay, or even heard the whispers of the release window, it may take some time before BioShock 4 fully appears. Meanwhile, Levin's Judas is It is expected to appear in March 2025this deadline has passed. But we Get a preview of the game last Marchso it may have to waste fans until BioShock 4 is ready to appear again.

Rebekah Valentine is a senior journalist at IGN. You can find her post on bluesky @duckvalentine.bsky.social. Is there a story tip? Send it to [email protected].