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Bored of your everyday life in the clouds? Do you long for a more aquatic adventure? Then, friend, this DLC is just for you! Today, BioShock series honcho Ken Levine showed off the beginning of the upcoming downloadable chapter to Bioshock Infinite, “Burial at Sea.”

Now, don’t go thinking that this is a continuation of the Infinite storyline. Burial at Sea is a separate story that features the Infinite’s leading couples in completely different roles. Booker fills the shoes of, well, a gumshoe, and Elizabeth plays his client. The story takes place on New Year’s Eve, 1958 – the day Rapture plunged into all-out war. The game will play out in classic noir style, so expect a lot of monologuing.

BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea will be available to download before the end of the year.

As promised, 2K and Irrational Games have announced the first details of BioShock Infinite‘s downloadable content schedule. Actually, the first DLC expansion, “Clash in the Clouds,” is available today. That’s a nice surprise.

BioShock Infinite: Clash in the Clouds is a set of wave-based maps that “presents players with a series of unique, intense challenges and a whole new gambit of combat opportunities.” Players will be able to access four new areas in Clash in the Clouds and if they complete all 60 Blue Ribbon Challenges, they’ll be able to view a batch of new new Voxophones, Kinetoscopes, and concept art in the Columbian Archeological Society. BioShock Infinite: Clash in the Clouds can be downloaded now for $4.99 (or 400 Microsoft Points).

But Clash in the Clouds is just an appetizer before BioShock Infinite’s downloadable main course. “Burial at Sea” is a noir-like two-part expansion to the game that will bring Booker and Elizabeth to the underwater city of Rapture before its fall. Priced at $14.99 apiece, both parts of Burial at Sea are currently without release dates.

If you’re looking to save a little money, all of BioShock Infinite’s DLC can be yours as part of the game’s Season Pass, which is still available for $19.99, a significant discount over buying each piece individually.

You can find the first trailers for Clash in the Clouds and Burial at Sea after the break. (more…)

It’s a good day to be Ken Levine, the Creative Director at Irrational Games. First, Take Two announced that his most recent creation, BioShock Infinite, has sold 3.7 million copies since being released on March 26. And then, Levine revealed (via Twitter) that he’s begun writing his next project.

“This is something else,” he writes, a phrase which will surely lead the Internet to run wild with claims that Levine is working on BioShock 4 and that it’s better than the preceding three… or… that it’s something totally new and not related to BioShock in any way.

In a followup tweet, Levine revealed that he’s currently finding inspiration in Mad Men, P.T. Anderson, the Coen brothers, Stanley Kubrick, Steven Soderbergh, Tom Stoppard, Stephen Sondheim, and “games.” Whether or not any of these inspirations will make it into Irrational’s next game remains to be seen.

And no mention was made of BioShock Vita, which is a bad sign for the constantly delayed project’s future survival.

UPDATE: In June, it was confirmed that Ken Levine’s next project is actually the screenplay to a Logan’s Run remake.

As promised, Irrational Games has uploaded a few alternate covers for their latest game, BioShock Infinite. The eight covers are available at the game’s official website.

You can choose the image to your right as well seven additional images including two covers featuring just Elizabeth, a cover showcasing the “Falling” art, three covers in the propaganda poster style, and one more action shot with Booker and Elizabeth.

The page offers each alternate cover in two sizes: a PC/Xbox 360-style DVD case or a PS3-style Blu-ray case. Printing instructions are also provided so your new BioShock Infinite cover looks as “exceptional” as possible.