2K teases a return to BioShock’s Rapture

By Will Fulton Published July 24, 2014

This morning the 2K United Kingdom Twitter account posted the following image and teasing message:

Oooo, what COULD this mean?! pic.twitter.com/P93Nl643SU

— 2K United Kingdom (@2K_UK) July 24, 2014

What indeed! Eve’s Garden was a strip club located in the Fort Frolic area of Rapture in BioShock and BioShock 2. Could the publisher be teasing a re-make? A sequel? A spin-off like Ken Levine’s recently-lamented Final Fantasy Tactics-style PlayStation Vita game set in a pre-fall Rapture? Only time will tell.

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When 2K Games dissolved Irrational Games earlier this year the rights to the BioShock franchise remained with the publisher, a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive. This tweet is the first, murky sign we have seen of what might be planned for the beloved franchise.

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