What's up, everybody? Welcome to IGN GameSoup. I'm your host, Damon Hadfield. I'm joined

today by Greg Miller, Marty C. Hey, Justin Davis. This is, of course, IGN's video game

talk show. We like to think of it as the view for video games. Yeah, I'm what be. I want

to be what we can do. Each week we get together, talk about all the big news that's happening

in video games. Today we're going to talk about Cliff Blasinski, formerly, the artist formerly

known as Cliffy B. Okay. We're going to talk about Xbox One digital prices maybe getting

cheaper. We'll talk about the state of the industry. But first, Ken Levine, creator of

Bioshock, set it up. I'm excited to go. Says he is winding down, winding down, developer

rational games. As you know it. Yes, as we know it. Yeah. Laying off all but 15 of staff,

making something totally different, a different type of game for him, smaller, downloadable

games. Yep. What do we think this says? Or does it say anything about state of the industry?

I mean, first, looking at obviously Bioshock Infinite, great game sold four or five million

copies, also took seven years to make. Right. And with a studio of over a hundred folks,

that's that budget. Like there's that they would be insurmountable for them to have made

money on that game. Yeah, they needed that game to do better than it did. Yeah, they needed

to get me to do better than Bioshock one, which just wasn't going to happen. So the speculation

is we don't know. Like the way that they couched this announcement, Ken Levine says he wants

to make smaller games is what he wants to do. Narrative focus. Replayability. I think what's

more likely is that game didn't do well. 2k said we got to shut the studio down. You can't

say that game didn't do well. Well, not as well as they wanted to do. Sure, sure, sure,

sure. But I mean, exactly. That's what he said. That's what he said. He said he had various

demons in the share pile. I mean, I'm just saying I think that they did Ken Levine, the

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