Crafting with Bethany: BioShock Splicer Mask
Bethany Bryan writes funny things at Welcome to Bethville!
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BioShock Ultimate Rapture Edition
BioShooooock!! There you go gettin’ me with the cool stuff again. For $30, the BioShock Ultimate Rapture Edition, which comes out on January 14 for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, will include BioShock,...
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Trophy Masks
Our beloved Bethany went on a decoupaging spree over the weekend and decorated her walls with Splicer masks. Or, more likely, she popped down to Rapture to Electro Bolt a few Leadheads and collected...
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Break off an arm already, guys.
I opened a tab with Chris Plante’s long-form “Ken Levine and the Infinite Idaho” yesterday. I didn’t read it until just now. I stopped about a third of the way through to record the expression on my...
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The Rapture Family
Fun portrait from the good people who speak for BioShock on Facebook. Pictures of guys dressed up as Mr. Bubbles accompanied by their Little Sister daughters melt my heart. (Nieces, too.)
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Seven Scares
1. Chainsaws (and the baddies who wield them) Any game featuring chainsaw enemies, but especially Resident Evil 4. Chainsaws are just scary objects to begin with. They look scary, they sound scary, and...
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Happy Valentine’s Day, BioShock!
I’m BioShock crazy like seventh grade girls are all, “AAAA!” about boys. My apartment is like Beatlemania, but with BioShock pretty much 24/7. I’m doing my entire bedroom in BioShock, because I’m an...
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Splicer Glamour Shots
‘Cause what else are you gonna do while waiting for the midnight release of BioShock Infinite?
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Thoughts on BioShock Infinite
Warning: SPOILERS!! SPOILERS AHOY! DO NOT READ IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO RUIN ONE OF THE GREATEST GAME ENDINGS OF ALL TIME FOR YOURSELF. Note: I have done very little research on other people’s ideas and...
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Let Me Help You Fall in Love with Shooters
Over the past week, two different people, who I believe are not part of a conspiracy of asking me eerily similar things, mentioned “not really enjoying shooters” but wanted to know more about BioShock...
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Finally, a New Boyfriend for Barbie
Here’s the Booker DeWitt action figure. If you’re like me, you went right out and bought it and then took it home to totally make out with Barbie. She’s been so lonely since Ken’s head fell off. He...
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Dramaturgy: BioShock Infinite
Note: I’m not 100% sure if I’m using the term “dramaturgy” correctly here. I learned it from Chris Braak, who writes cool ones about stuff like Wonder Woman punching tanks and tearing George S....
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Kaylan’s Great Microsoft Paint Experiment
Look! It’s snowing on Jenn. A quick note from Bethany: I jokingly told Kaylan that I was putting her in charge of all Photoshop work on Gamervescent because there is nothing I love more than bad...
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Permíteme que te ayude a enamorte de los shooters
Original: Let Me Help You Fall in Love with Shooters, Bethany Bryan Traducción: Laura Collado La semana pasada, dos personas diferentes (que creo que no forman parte de una siniestra conspiración para...
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Want to Help Fund This Game By Some Ex-BioShock Developers?
Does the black glove shoot bees? Maybe? Some mornings you come to the Internet, and the day feels full of promise. The Buzzfeed is buzzing. The Twitter is twittering. And the first thing you see on...
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Hack the Planet
I love the tile-swapping, pipe-building hacking minigame in BioShock with a fervent, overwhelming love. Does it get repetitive? Yes. Have I ever been troubled by that fact? No. I find it soothing, a...
View ArticleLate to the Game [Trailer] Once Again…
I pride myself on keeping up with the latest news, being on top of the stories, and showing up where the action is to get the scoop. But sometimes I miss things, like hilarious fake trailers for video...
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Would you rather?
Become a Splicer or a Headcrab Zombie? Encounter The Hitchhiker or the Butcher in a dark alley? Do battle with a Dreamrunner or a Darkspawn Emissary? Run away from Ustanak or Paula? Be killed by a Dead...
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So…About My Actual Boyfriend
I posted a fictionalized account on Friday of my experiences going to GameStop. And afterwards my real boyfriend read it and said, “Do I really do that?” So I wanted to take a few minutes to tell you...
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Big Daddy Love
Would you kindly take a moment to let me get something off my chest? I’ve been replaying BioShock and have come to the conclusion that I hate killing Big Daddies. Not because of the difficulty (though...
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