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If you’ve been frustrated over the lack of news regarding the still-in-development fourth BioShock title, you’re not alone. After over a decade since the release of BioShock Infinite, Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick has now weighed in, expressing his own frustration over the fourth entry in the series being seemingly stuck in development hell.

In an interview with Game File, Zelnick covered a wide range of topics, one of which (obviously) turned to BioShock. The fourth entry has been in development and never officially been announced for several years now, despite the game supposedly having “ramped up production” back in 2024, having images leak online, and a rumoured 2028 release.

When asked if he was surprised that Take-Two hasn’t been able to get traction on a new BioShock title since 2013, Zelnick was frank in his response.

“Think about what ‘surprise’ implies,” he said. “That’s like, one day, everything’s awesome, and the next day, I’m like, ‘Holy shit.’ And I don’t run the business that way. But I think if you’re saying ‘disappointed,’ yes. Deeply disappointed.”

Despite that, Zelnick feels that the project is in a better position now after having BioShock Infinite producer Rod Fergusson take over the as head of development last year. However, Zelnick admits that Take-Two “wasted a lot of time and money” getting to this point, but that it was the price of the “nature of entertainment”.

“What we do is a big team activity in the same way that making a movie is a team activity. And with big team activities, you can’t necessarily tell how it’s going to be until it all comes together, or begins to come together, and that can take a while and can be very costly.”

Currently, the fourth BioShock title, which was announced back in 2019, is being developed by Cloud Chamber.

Meanwhile, the last we heard of the Netflix film adaptation of BioShock directed by Francis Lawrence(I Am Legend, Constantine), that project was also still ongoing.