Amazon has a fantastic offer for anyone who hasn’t explored the disturbing underground city of Rapture. For a limited time, Amazon is throwing in the original BioShock with any order of BioShock 2. You can get both games for as low as $14.96. These are some great games to give as gifts. The person who receives these two games will think you bought both games just for them!

Speaking to a packed hall of journalists on Wednesday night (August 11, 2010) at the New York Plaza Hotel, BioShock creator Ken Levine and his studio Irrational Games unveiled their latest project called BioShock Infinite. However, unlike the first two games which took place in the murky depths of the sea, this game is situated in a corrupt, floating city called Columbia.

Picture this – a wide open, massively-multiplayer version of the glorious underwater metropolis of Rapture. Plasmid powers and commerce gone haywire. The ability to control a spider splicer named “CharlesInCharge” and run around wreaking havoc. Ok, I may be getting too far ahead of myself, but there’s a buzz around the interwebs today that the BioShock franchise may be getting an MMO.

The Xbox Live Arcade House Party continues this week and now they have let in the racecars with weapons fully attached. Because it is simply not a party until somebody straps a rocket launcher to the hood of their car. Scrap Metal is a racer with heavy car combat elements and it’s drawing favorable comparisons to the Twisted Metal series.

This week (February 7-13, 2010) on Xbox Live you can opt to save Darwinia from a computer virus in the action strategy game. It went live February 10, 2010 and will cost you 1200 Microsoft Points. Strategy fans in Europe, Australia and New Zealand get Halo Wars in Games On Demand for $29.99 and 6 more »

You know what’s missing from your life? A Big Daddy, that’s what. Of course, it’d be pretty expensive to buy a real, life sized, Bioshock or Bioshock 2 Big Daddy suit or statue, so I guess you’ll just have to make due with a Big Daddy plush doll from the National Entertainment Collectibles Association.

NECA has created two Bioshock 2 toys to coincide with the February 9, 2010 release of Bioshock 2 for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. The first item is the Big Daddy plush doll, which is identical to the the Little Sister carries. There’s a product listing for it at Amazon, and when it’s in stock it’ll cost $24.99.

The other item is an EVE Hypo…

First-person shooter fans’ wishlist for Bioshock 2 began with one word: Multiplayer.

Take-Two heard your cry and online multiplayer is getting so much attention, the company even has a whole design team working on competitive play. The world depicted in Bioshock 2 is unlike any other in gaming, so it is only fitting that the multiplayer is unique.

Players will be able to equip two weapons and two plasmid powers such as Telekinesis or Incinerate. The super powers can be used to activate vicious combos causing ridiculous amounts of damage. For example, combining water and electricity does large damage. The plasmid power Incinerate has a dramatic effect on a map with oil slicks on it.

Epic Games is making a breakthrough in the games community by offering one of the most acclaimed game engines, the Unreal Engine 3, free to the public.

Now anyone can get their hands on this technology by downloading the UDK, or Unreal Development Kit.

The Unreal Engine 3 has been used in blockbuster first-person shooters including the Gears of War franchise, Unreal Tournament 3 and

Sam Fisher is poised to go all stealth action on our bank accounts, as Ubisoft has announced a February 23, 2010, release date for Splinter Cell: Conviction. Fans of the series can be forgiven if they’re a little bit skeptical. This game has already been postponed so many times even Link and Zelda are calling Sam Fisher a tease. Conviction was initially scheduled for a November 2007 release.

Ubisoft Montreal had announced a release date sometime during the holiday season of 2009 but pushed it back to 2010.

2K Games announced that heavily anticipated sequel Bioshock 2 is coming February 9, 2010. The return to the underwater community of Rapture was originally slated to release in November 2009 but Take-Two pushed it out of a holiday season crowded with blockbuster games.

November 2009 features 800-pound gorillas including Call of Duty:Modern Warfare 2 and Assassin’s Creed II poised to attack gamers’ wallets with a vengeance.