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Dark Sector Dev Digital Extremes Behind BioShock PS3 Port

By Alex Petraglia on Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 12:29 PM EST  

Take-Two announced today that Digital Extremes, the studio behind Dark Sector and Pariah, has been selected to help 2K Marin, 2K Boston, and 2K Australia port BioShock over to the PlayStation 3.

Why four teams are needed to port a game, I have no idea. Maybe Chris Hartmann does though.

“By partnering with Digital Extremes, 2K Games is delivering a fully optimized experience that takes advantage of the PlayStation 3 system hardware,” said Christoph Hartmann, president of 2K. “Bringing Digital Extremes on board allows us to continue to deliver the best experience possible to our fans.”

Digital Extremes shipped one game for the PlayStation 3, Dark Sector, which was received tepidly, at best.

“When 2K approached us to assist with development on BioShock for the PLAYSTATION 3 system, it was a no-brainer,” said James Schmalz, CEO and founder of Digital Extremes. “You really can’t ask for a more exciting, technically impressive world to work in than Rapture, and the incredible knowledge and talent between the 2K studios and our team at Digital Extremes is unprecedented. The collaboration on this project will make the PLAYSTATION 3 system sing with Big Daddy goodness and Little Sister ‘thank you’s’.”

I’ve never read a quote like that in a press release and I doubt I ever will again.

BioShock for the PlayStation 3 is due out this October.

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