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  • 1940

    • 1940s: In BioShock, the player encounters phonographs that play music from the 1940s and 1950s as background music. - BioShock, Wikipedia.

  • 1946


  • 1950

    • 1950s: In the early 1950's, Rapture's population peaked at several thousand and was composed of what Ryan viewed as the best examples of mankind. - BioShock, Gaming_wikia.

  • 1957


  • 1959

    • 1959: On New Year's Eve of 1959, Atlas and his ADAM-infused followers began a new revolt against Ryan that spread throughout Rapture. - BioShock, Wikipedia.

  • 1960

    • 1960: Set in an alternate history 1960, the game places the player in the role of a plane crash survivor named Jack, who must explore the underwater city of Rapture, and survive attacks by the mutated beings and mechanical drones that populate it. - BioShock, Wikipedia.
    • 1960: BioShock is set during 1960, in Rapture, a fictional underwater dystopian city. - BioShock, Wikipedia.
    • 1960: The player assumes the role of Jack, a passenger on a plane that suddenly crashes near Rapture in 1960. - BioShock, Gaming_wikia.
    • 1960: At the start of the game, player-character Jack is a passenger on a plane that goes down in the Atlantic Ocean in 1960,[39] after ordered society in Rapture has collapsed. - BioShock, Wikipedia.

  • 2000


  • 2004

    • 2004: By the time development on BioShock was officially revealed in 2004, the story and setting had changed significantly. - BioShock, Wikipedia.

  • 2006

    • April 27, 2006: The first official screenshot for BioShock was released. - BioShock, Gaming_wikia.
    • May 9, 2006: Ten more screenshots were released to Gamespot on May 9, 2006. - BioShock, Gaming_wikia.
    • 2006: In his narration of a video initially screened for the press at E3 2006, Levine pointed out many similarities between the games. - BioShock, Wikipedia.
    • 2006: At E3 2006 a demo of BioShock was shown. - BioShock, Gaming_wikia.
    • 2006: On Sepember 28, 2006, Take Two announced that BioShock was exclusive to the Xbox 360 and Games for Windows The second trailer was released on December 15, 2006. - BioShock, Gaming_wikia.
    • 2006: BioShock was first developed by Irrational Games which was later acquired by Take Two on January 9, 2006. - BioShock, Gaming_wikia.
    • 2006: Prior to the games release, at E3 2006, BioShock was given the "Game of the Show" award from various online gaming sites, including GameSpot, IGN, GameSpy and GameTrailers's Trailer of the Year. - BioShock, Gaming_wikia.
    • 2006: At E3 2006, BioShock was given several "Game of the Show" awards from various online gaming sites, including GameSpot,[103] IGN,[104] GameSpy[105] and GameTrailers's Trailer of the Year. - BioShock, Wikipedia.
    • September 27, 2006: The first trailer was released on September 27, 2006. - BioShock, Gaming_wikia.
    • September 21, 2006: Ken Levine showed a demo which begins with the player being in a utopia-under-the-sea which called Rapture. - BioShock, Gaming_wikia.
    • December 22, 2006: On December 22, 2006 the Bioshock site http://www.2kgames.com/bioshock/ became live. - BioShock, Gaming_wikia.

  • 2007

    • March 28, 2007: BioShock fans created a petition for a limited edition for BioShock on March 28, 2007 and 2K Games said that a Limited Edition would be released if there are 5000 signatures on the petition. - BioShock, Gaming_wikia.
    • April 23, 2007: The Cult of Rapture website confirmed that the Limited Collector's Edition would include a 6-inch (150 mm) Big Daddy figurine (many of which were damaged; a replacement initiative is in place), a "Making Of" DVD, and a soundtrack CD. - BioShock, Wikipedia.
    • April 23, 2007: The Cult of Rapture website confirmed the items included in the Collector's Edition. - BioShock, Gaming_wikia.
    • May 9, 2007: On May 9, 2007 G4 X-Play interviewed Irrational Games' Creative Director, Ken Levine on Bioshock. - BioShock, Gaming_wikia.
    • 2007: BioShock received an award for Best Xbox 360 Game at the 2007 Leipzig Games Convention. - BioShock, Wikipedia.
    • 2007: It was released for the Windows operating system and Xbox 360 video game console on August 21, 2007 in North America, and three days later in Europe and Australia. - BioShock, Wikipedia.
    • 2007: BioShock: Breaking the Mold is an art book which was released for free on August 13, 2007 by 2K Games on their official website. - BioShock, Gaming_wikia.
    • 2007: Bioshock was acclaimed by some commentators as the best game of 2007 for its artistry, narrative and innovation. - First-person shooter, Wikipedia.
    • 2007: And the game also won the 2007 BAFTA "Best Game" award. - BioShock, Wikipedia.
    • 2007: Also, BioShock has a rating of 96 on Metacritic, making it their Best Xbox 360 Game of 2007. - BioShock, Wikipedia.
    • 2007: It was first released on August 21, 2007 in North America, and three days later in Europe and Australia. - BioShock, Strategywiki.
    • 2007: This was reportedly responsible for the cancellation of a midnight release in Australia on August 23, 2007, due to 2K Games servers being unavailable, as the game would be unplayable until they were back online. - BioShock, Wikipedia.
    • 2007: After the game's release, the 2007 Spike TV Awards selected BioShock as Best Game, Best Xbox 360 Game, and Best Original Score, and nominated it for four awards: Best Shooter, Best Graphics, Best PC Game, Best Soundtrack. - BioShock, Wikipedia.
    • 2007: Andrew Ryan is a fictional character in the 2007 video game BioShock. - Andrew Ryan (BioShock), Wikipedia.
    • 2007: The deactivation of the system was promised by Ken Levine in August, 2007, after retail sales of the PC version of the game were no longer an issue. - BioShock, Wikipedia.
    • June 20, 2007: 2007 three short demos with director's commentary was released to Gamespot. - BioShock, Gaming_wikia.
    • 2007: During the 2007 Spike Video Game Awards in Las Vegas, Gamecock employees rushed the stage in capes and rooster heads as Ken Levine was about to take the stage to give an acceptance speech for winning the Game of the Year award for Bioshock. - Gamecock Media Group, Wikipedia.
    • June 8, 2007: On June 8, 2007 2k games released the third official movie, which is about the big daddy and little sisters. - BioShock, Gaming_wikia.
    • 2007: SecuROM has also been reported to be responsible for a cancellation of a midnight release in Australia due to downtime of 2K Games servers on August 23, 2007, as the game would be unplayable until the servers were back up. - BioShock, Gaming_wikia.
    • 2007: "BioShock is a 2007 PC, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 game chronicling a plane crash survivor's discovery of an underwater society named "Rapture" and the consequent exploration of the events behind the now dystopian society." - BioShock, Wikiquote.
    • 2007: "BioShock is a 2007 PC, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 game chronicling a plane crash survivor's discovery of an underwater society named "Rapture" and the consequent exploration of the events behind the now dystopian society." - BioShock, Wikiquote.
    • 2007: "BioShock is a 2007 PC, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 game chronicling a plane crash survivor's discovery of an underwater society named "Rapture" and the consequent exploration of the events behind the now dystopian society." - BioShock, Wikiquote.
    • 2007: Diane McClintock, a fictional character involved in the 2007 video game BioShock - McClintock, Wikipedia.
    • June 6, 2007: On June 6, 2007 the boxart of BioShock was revealed. - BioShock, Gaming_wikia.
    • 2007: First-person shooter BioShock, it is hinted throughout the game that the character Sander Cohen, a temperamental artist gone mad through genetic experimentation, is homosexual, and that he was deeply in love with the game's antagonist Andrew Ryan before the events in the game take place. - LGBT characters in video games, Wikipedia.
    • 2007: Irrational Games released a spiritual successor to the System Shock series, entitled BioShock. - System Shock 2, Gaming_wikia.
    • 2007: BioShock: Breaking the Mold, a book containing artwork from the game, was released by 2K Games on August 13, 2007. - BioShock, Wikipedia.
    • 2007: Frank Fontaine, a fictional character in the 2007 video game BioShock - Fontaine, Wikipedia.
    • July 6, 2007: On July 6, 2007 Ken Levine shows a demo in which he goes through the same scenario in three different ways. - BioShock, Gaming_wikia.
    • July 9, 2007: The requirements for BioShock was revealed on July 9, 2007 - BioShock, Gaming_wikia.
    • July 11, 2007: On July 11, 2007 the third trailer for BioShock was released. - BioShock, Gaming_wikia.
    • August 12, 2007: On August 12, 2007 a free demo was released on Xbox Live Marketplace. - BioShock, Gaming_wikia.
    • August 20, 2007: The Steam demo was released on August 20, the day before the Steam release, and the PlayStation 3 demo was released on the PlayStation Store on October 2, 2008. - BioShock, Wikipedia.
    • August 13, 2007: On August 13 2007 the BioShock artbook became available for download. - BioShock, Gaming_wikia.
    • August 21, 2007: It was first released on August 21, 2007 in North America, and three days later in Europe and Australia. - BioShock, Strategywiki.
    • August 24, 2007: 2K Games released an orchestral score soundtrack on their official homepage on August 24, 2007. - BioShock, Wikipedia.
    • August 17, 2007: Irrational Games also released a television ad for BioShock on August 17, 2007 at 8-9PM on SpikeTV in the United States. - BioShock, Gaming_wikia.
    • August 12, 2007: A demo was released on Xbox Live Marketplace on August 12, 2007,[64] and the PC demo was officially released on August 20, 2007, and announced during Larry Hryb's interview with Ken Levine on his podcast. - BioShock, Wikipedia.
    • August, 2007: In an August 2007 interview, when asked about the possibility of a PlayStation 3 version of BioShock, Ken Levine had stated only that there was "no PS3 development going on" at the time;[71] however, on May 28, 2008, 2K Games confirmed that a PlayStation 3 version of the game was in development by 2K Marin, and it was released on October 17, 2008. - BioShock, Wikipedia.
    • August 23, 2007: 2K Games announced that they will release a patch that will allow PC users to change the FOV value. - BioShock, Gaming_wikia.
    • August 20, 2007: A PC demo became available on Steam, Filefront, and FilePlanet. - BioShock, Gaming_wikia.
    • August 22, 2007: The New York Post reported that Take Two stock (TTWO) jumped nearly 10% on the strength of BioShock sales. - BioShock, Gaming_wikia.
    • August, 2007: The Xbox 360 version was the third best-selling game of August 2007, with 490,900 copies. - BioShock, Wikipedia.
    • September 6, 2007: The Xbox 360 version of BioShock received an update: "Improves general game stability, especially when loading autosaves. - BioShock, Wikipedia.
    • October 17, 2007: A PlayStation 3 version of the game, which was developed by 2K Marin, was released internationally on October 17, 2008 and in North America on October 21, 2008[17] with some additional features. - BioShock, Wikipedia.
    • October 1, 2007: Until October 1, 2007, 2K Games was sending a printed version of the book to the owners of the collector's edition whose Big Daddy figurines had been broken, as compensation for the time it took to replace them. - BioShock, Wikipedia.
    • October, 2007: With the highly successful release of The Orange Box, and the distribution of high-profile games such as BioShock, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, Steam began to take the lead in digital distribution. - Steam (content delivery), Wikipedia.
    • December 4, 2007: A patch for the Windows version, and a title update and free downloadable content for the Xbox 360 version were released. - BioShock, Wikipedia.
    • December 4, 2007: In patch 1.1, released on December 4, 2007, the "Horizontal FOV Lock" option was added to the Options menu,[147] which when switched off allows widescreen users a wider field of view, without cutting anything off the image vertically. - BioShock, Wikipedia.

  • 2008

    • February 12, 2008: IG Fun announced that they had secured the rights to develop and publish a mobile phone version of BioShock. - BioShock, Wikipedia.
    • March 11, 2008: Take Two Interactive officially announced that BioShock 2 is being developed by 2K Marin. - BioShock, Wikipedia.
    • May 9, 2008: Take Two announced a deal with Universal Studios to produce a BioShock movie, to be directed by Gore Verbinski and written by John Logan. - BioShock, Wikipedia.
    • May 28, 2008: On May 28, 2008, 2K Games confirmed that BioShock is in development for the PlayStation 3 and will be released in October 2008 and is being developed by the newest 2K Games studio, 2K Marin. - Portal:Video games/Featured article/36, Wikipedia.
    • 2008: This version was used in the teaser trailer for the 2K Games Bioshock sequel, Bioshock 2: Sea of Dreams. - Dream (song), Wikipedia.
    • June 10, 2008: In a June 10, 2008 interview, Roy Taylor, Nvidia's VP of Content Business Development, stated that the PC version has sold over one million copies. - BioShock, Wikipedia.
    • 2008: Guinness World Records awarded the game a record for "Most Popular Xbox Live Demo" in the Guinness World Records: Gamer's Edition 2008. - BioShock, Wikipedia.
    • June 19, 2008: As of June 19, 2008, 2K Games has removed the activation limit, allowing users to install the game an unlimited number of times. - BioShock, Wikipedia.
    • June 5, 2008: Take-Two announced that, as of June 5, 2008, over 2.2 million copies of BioShock had been shipped. - BioShock, Wikipedia.
    • 2008: BioShock won the "Best Visual Art," "Best Writing," and "Best Audio" awards at the 2008 Game Developers Choice Awards. - BioShock, Wikipedia.
    • 2008: 2K Boston/2K Australia are responsible for developing Bioshock, arguably the most critically acclaimed game of 2008. - Take-Two Interactive, Wikipedia.
    • August, 2008: In an August 2008 interview, Ken Levine mentioned that 2K Boston was not involved in the game's sequel because they wanted to "swing for the fences" and try to come up with something "very, very different". - BioShock, Wikipedia.
    • October 7, 2008: The game was also released for the Mac OS X operating system on October 7, 2009. - BioShock, Wikipedia.
    • October 17, 2008: PlayStation 3 PAL October 17, 2008 NA October 21, 2008 Mac NA October 10, 2009 - BioShock, Wikipedia.
    • October 2, 2008: A demo version was released on the PlayStation Store on October 2, 2008. - BioShock, Wikipedia.
    • October 31, 2008: The winners of "Breaking the Mold: Developers Edition Artbook Cover Contest" were announced on cultofrapture.com. - BioShock, Wikipedia.
    • October, 2008: Originally marketed as a Windows and Xbox 360 exclusive, 2K Games later announced a PlayStation 3 version, which was released in October 2008. - BioShock, Strategywiki.
    • November 13, 2008: An update for the PS3 version was released on November 13, 2008 to fix some graphical problems and occasions where users experienced a hang and were forced to reset the console. - BioShock, Wikipedia.

  • 2009

    • April 9, 2009: On the Spike TV show GameTrailers TV with Geoff Keighley the first BioShock 2 gameplay video was shown featuring the Big Sister. - BioShock 2, Wikipedia.
    • June, 2009: According to Take-Two's chairman Strauss Zelnick, the game had sold around 3 million copies as of June 2009. - BioShock, Wikipedia.
    • August 24, 2009: It was revealed that Verbinski had dropped out of the project due to the studio's decision to film overseas to keep the budget under control. - BioShock, Wikipedia.

  • 2010

    • January, 2010: As of January 2010 the project is in pre-production stage, with Juan Carlos Fresnadillo attached as director, with Braden Lynch, a voice artist from BioShock 2, working on the film. - BioShock, Wikipedia.
    • February 9, 2010: A sequel, BioShock 2, was released on February 9, 2010. - BioShock, Wikipedia.
    • February 9, 2010: A 2K developer stated that the game "is part of a prequel and at the same time is a sequel."[157] BioShock 2 was released for Windows PC, Xbox 360, and the PlayStation 3 worldwide on February 9, 2010. - BioShock, Wikipedia.
    • February 9, 2010: Bioshock 2 is scheduled for release on February 9, 2010 by developers 2K Marin and 2K Australia. - Take-Two Interactive, Wikipedia.
    • March, 2010: By March 2010, BioShock has sold 4 million copies. - BioShock, Wikipedia.
    • 2010: The film was expected to be released in 2010, but was put on hold due to budget concerns. - BioShock, Wikipedia.






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