It’s time to finally unveil the winners of our massive BioShock Infinite PC Gaming Giveaway!

With 240 entries, we had to take our time going through them all — imagining them in action, doing Photoshop mockups, running around the room making “zap!” noises and generally thoroughly making sure that we made the right choices. But now, we’ve had to choose just two people to walk away with these most excellent prizes.

Did you know we are running a massive BioShock Infinite competition? Where you can win not only limited editions of the game but also stuff like the replica skyhook, which aren’t even available for sale anymore?

The first prize even includes a SAPPHIRE HD 7970 3GB GDDR5 card, so you can play BioShock as Irrational intended — at maximum settings.

Head on over to the competition page and enter! You’ve got six hours!

You’re a hard act to follow, Elizabeth — but that doesn’t mean the lovely people over at Irrational Games won’t give it a shot, though. According to the LinkedIn profile of a 2K senior artist, of late he’s been working on “providing animation and R&D for a new character” in Bioshock: Infinite‘s DLC.

The relevant information on the artist’s profile has since been removed, which in Internet terms is almost as good as slapping it with a big ol’ rubber stamp that says “rumour confirmed”. It hasn’t been confirmed, however and we’ll probably hear more as details about the story DLC begin to emerge.

In the meantime though, speculation: go! Who or what do you think could be our new companion? This reporter hopes desperately that it might be a little pint-sized Songbird, but that seems less than likely. A handyman? A patriot? A Slate prequel? The possibilities are, dare I say, infinite.

Source: Eurogamer

games.on.net and 2K have teamed up to give away two incredibly mad prizes, right here on this very website. That’s right — to celebrate the launch of BioShock Infinite, we’re giving away two awesome prize packs to get you up and running with all things BioShock in the proper PC gaming fashion. Check this out…

Those of you who didn’t like the final choice of cover art for BioShock Infinite — and there were a whole lot of you, if the internet is to be believed — can now download and print out the cover art of your choice. Irrational Games have made the alternate cover artworks available as super high-resolution PDFs, and you can find them at the bottom of this page.

I’m a pretty big fan of the ‘falling art’ one myself — grab yourself some glossy paper or maybe head down to your local print shop and make it happen, people. There’s printing instructions here that Irrational suggest you read first.

Source: Irrational

When Rod Fergusson left Epic Games in August last year to join Irrational, not many expected him to then up and depart a mere eight months on.

With BioShock Infinite under his belt, Fergusson has now decided to depart the studio for unknown pastures. “During my departure from Epic, I learned that Irrational was in need of a ‘closer’ to help finish BioShock Infinite,” Fergusson said to Polygon. “I’ve been striving for better storytelling in the games I’ve worked on and I saw this as a great opportunity to learn from Ken and his team on how to build a truly story-driven game.”

“I am very proud of the work that I did and of the team and what they were able to accomplish on Infinite. Now with the game shipped successfully, I’ve done what I set out to do here and now I’m looking forward to the next chapter in my life and career.”

Fergusson was responsible for one of BioShock Infinite‘s delays, after observing upon his arrival that the game could stand a few more months of spit and polish. That decision seems to have paid off in spades, however.

Source: Polygon

Do games really have to be all about combat? Inspired by recent discussions about BioShock Infinite, James Pinnell explores the other possibilities and examples of how games have handled conflict for better — and worse.

Everyone’s all gushing about how great BioShock Infinite is, but here at games.on.net, we’re not buying into the hype. We’ve turned away the Doritos delivery truck and poured our Mountain Dew down the sink. “No more!” we said loudly. You see, we recognise that games need to be ruthlessly criticised and nitpicked and torn apart, especially ones like BioShock which just don’t get it. So here’s the top ten reasons why gamers should stay far, far away from Irrational and 2K’s latest creation.

NVIDIA have released GeForce 314.22 drivers for you to download, claiming a boost of up to 41% in BioShock Infinite and an astonishing 71% in Tomb Raider.

“Other highlights include single-GPU and SLI performance improvements of up to 30% in Civilization V, 22% in Sniper Elite V2, and 12% in Sleeping Dogs,” reads the announcement. “314.22 WHQL also includes SLI profiles for Dungeons & Dragons: Neverwinter, Resident Evil 6, and Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army; 3D Vision profiles for Brutal Legend, MUD, and Tomb Raider; and a NVIDIA Control Panel Ambient Occlusion profile for BioShock Infinite.”

Head on over our file library (or to the GeForce website) and grab them for yourself.

Source: GeForce (Thanks, PalZer0)

Our video review of BioShock Infinite doesn’t quite do the graphics justice, so I’ve rounded up a few of the best screenshots from the 180+ I took while playing and dumped them here for you, so you can see what the game looks like on PC with everything turned up as far as possible.

The below shots are taken on a GeForce GTX 670, which had absolutely no frame drops or lag whatsoever and pulled a smooth 60FPS through the whole game.

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There’s very little to say about BioShock Infinite that you haven’t already heard — other than “well, how does it actually play then?” After spending the last few days with the game, we’re ready with our thoughts in this video review inside. Take a look.

You can never have too many BioShock: Infinite trailers, they say, where “they” is 2K’s PR team – and also everybody else, probably, as long as there are no spoilers. Today’s visit to Columbia talks about Elizabeth, whom you’re going to see a heck of a lot of. Happily, Irrational Games took her creation very seriously, roping in four women to bring her to life – voice actor, motion capture performer, writer and face model. Only a few more days to wait.