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The game studio building a new BioShock just had mass layoffs

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-11-06 10:15:48

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The team working on the next BioShock game is losing a third of its staff. According to Bloomberg, Take-Two is laying off more than 80 people at Cloud Chamber, which has been working on a new BioShock title, and the game has been delayed from a planned launch in late 2026 or early 2027. T

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Former Gears of War and Diablo head Rod Fergusson is now in charge of BioShock

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-07 15:56:30

Rod Fergusson, the head of the Diablo franchise for the last five years, is joining 2K Games to lead up the BioShock franchise. This is happening just a couple of weeks after Fergusson announced he was leaving Blizzard. He was also the studio head at Coalition once upon a time, where he oversaw the Gears of War franchise. Fergusson wrote on X that he will be "overseeing development of the next BioShock game" and will even have a say in that upcoming film adaptation for Netflix. The franchise is

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8x19 Text Mode Font Origins

news.ycombinator.com Posted On 2025-11-10 17:44:22

I was recently made aware of something that I had noticed before, but never paid much attention to. Consider this screenshot of a BIOS POST screen: Intel AN430TX board POST screen VGA text modes usually use 720×400 resolution and 8×16 fonts (expanded to 9×16). The above screenshot uses 640×480 resolution (VGA graphics), but it is with a high degree a certainty a text mode, using a custom 8×19 font. The BIOS is a Phoenix BIOS 4.0 Release 6.0, running on an Intel Anchorage (AN430TX) board. For

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More than two hard disks in DOS

news.ycombinator.com Posted On 2025-12-07 11:19:27

Investigating the rather odd behavior of the Microsoft OS/2 1.21 disk driver led me to Compaq and their EXTDISK.SYS driver. While experimenting with various setups, I realized that DOS versions older than 5.0 do not support more than two hard disks exposed by the system’s BIOS, and will in fact quite likely hang early during boot-up if there are “too many” hard disks. This seems to have been one of the many things that “everyone knew” back in the day, similar to the fact that DOS versions older

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BioShock 4 loses direction again as 2K fires top leadership

techspot.com Cal Jeffrey 2025-12-08 23:54:00

Facepalm: Take-Two's BioShock 4 has been stuck in development hell for over a decade. Now, executives have fired the studio head, demoted the creative director, and ordered a full rewrite, putting the project's future in doubt. Fans have long wondered when the game will launch - but maybe the real question is: will it? Take-Two is overhauling the long-delayed next installment in the BioShock series after an internal review left top executives at 2K Games dissatisfied with the game's progress. T

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BioShock 4 hits a major development snag, and a remake of the original gets put on ice

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-10 16:25:23

BioShock fans will have to wait even longer to find out if we're going to Rapture, Columbia or a brand new city since the next game in the franchise may be headed back to the drawing board. According to a report from Bloomberg, the latest BioShock game that's being developed by Cloud Chamber failed a review with executives at 2K Games. Bloomberg's sources explained that the execs wanted improvement with the game's narrative, which "will be revamped in the coming months." 2K Games said in a stat

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I made my VM think it has a CPU fan

news.ycombinator.com Petr Beneš 2026-02-16 16:55:18

Why bother? Some malware samples are known to do various checks to determine if they are running in a virtual machine. One of the common checks is to look for the presence of certain hardware components that are typically not emulated in virtualized environments. One such component is the CPU fan. One of the observed ways malware checks for the presence of a CPU fan is by looking for the Win32_Fan class in WMI: wmic path Win32_Fan get * And the reason they do this is they want to avoid runnin

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Looking at Framework’s progress on software support for its repairable laptops

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-22 23:12:30

For the past five years, we've been paying a lot of attention to Framework, the upstart PC company focused on modular, repairable, upgradeable, and customizable laptop designs. So far, Framework has done a solid job of offering a steady stream of hardware upgrades for its systems, particularly the original Framework Laptop 13. But the company's track record on software support—including BIOS updates and driver updates with performance improvements, bug fixes, and important security updates—has

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How PC makers exploited BIOS copyright strings to unlock trial software during the Windows 95 era

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2026-02-23 04:06:00

What just happened? Jokingly referred to as "Plug and Pray" due to its notorious unreliability, the Plug and Play standard was nonetheless a pivotal advancement in simplifying hardware and peripheral configuration during the early Windows 9x era. Beyond easing setup for end users, the technology also played an unexpected role in exposing a cartel of PC manufacturers that had been exploiting a hardware feature to provide full versions of trial software packages to their customers. Microsoft vete

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Stray Kite Studios poised for Wartorn early access release on June 17

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2026-03-14 04:00:00

Stray Kite Studios is launching its Wartorn game into early access on Steam and the Epic Games Store tomorrow on June 17. The real-time tactics title will be available for $29.99. There will also be a special launch week discount where the game can be purchased for $19.99. Wartorn’s development is led by Creative Director Paul Hellquist (lead designer on BioShock and creative director on Borderlands 2), who brings his exceptional expertise into crafting a fresh new take on tactical gaming. Pla

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Latest Tech News

The game studio building a new BioShock just had mass layoffs

Former Gears of War and Diablo head Rod Fergusson is now in charge of BioShock

8x19 Text Mode Font Origins

More than two hard disks in DOS

BioShock 4 loses direction again as 2K fires top leadership

BioShock 4 hits a major development snag, and a remake of the original gets put on ice

I made my VM think it has a CPU fan

Looking at Framework’s progress on software support for its repairable laptops

How PC makers exploited BIOS copyright strings to unlock trial software during the Windows 95 era

Stray Kite Studios poised for Wartorn early access release on June 17

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