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The Ending of BioShock Infinite: What Happens, What It Means, and Where Booker DeWitt Finally Ends Up

The ending of BioShock Infinite doesn't wrap things up.  It blows the floor open.  What started as a rescue story turns out to be a...

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Booker De Witt's character arc in the ending of Bioshock: Infinite

Booker DeWitt enters BioShock Infinite like a man already halfway buried. He is not introduced as a clean heroic lead, or even as a rec...

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BioShock Infinite: The thematic meaning of the ending (on the back of the original games)

BioShock Infinite opens with a ritual the series already taught us to distrust. A lone man travels toward an impossible city. He is tol...

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How Bioshock 2 themes built on the original Andrew Ryan philosophy

No Gods, No Kings, Still No Escape: How BioShock 2 Builds on the Themes of the First Game BioShock 2 has often bee...

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The 5 Themes of the Original BioShock

No Gods or Kings, Only Man BioShock is not just a shooter set in a ruined underwater city. It is a philosophical tra...

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BioShock – Objectivism, Free Will, and a Self-Destructive Utopia

Rapture, the underwater city at the heart of the original BioShock, is born from one man’s dream of absolute freedom. Andrew Ryan’s vision i...

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The Lore That Binds the BioShock Universe

The BioShock series is more than a story about cities lost to madness. It is a grand design about cycles, constants, and the illusion of c...

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