{"id":626426,"date":"2010-01-10T14:38:12","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T19:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/01\/10\/2k-boston-once-again-becomes-irrational-games\/"},"modified":"2010-01-10T14:38:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T19:38:12","slug":"2k-boston-once-again-becomes-irrational-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/626426","title":{"rendered":"2K Boston Once Again Becomes Irrational Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><!--Begin feature--><\/p>\n<p><!-- for syndication --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/6a756_media?id=3781301&amp;type=lg\" alt=\"Irrational Games logo\" \/>What once was Irrational Games and then 2K Boston is now once again Irrational Games, completing a circle of, well, irrational name-changing.<\/p>\n<p>The developer (responsible for such games as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1up.com\/do\/gameOverview?cId=3150028\" title=\"BioShock\">BioShock<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1up.com\/do\/gameOverview?cId=2010227\">Freedom Force<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1up.com\/do\/gameOverview?cId=2014231\">System Shock 2<\/a>, for those unawares) changed their name when they were purchased by Take-Two in 2006. <a href=\"http:\/\/gameinformer.com\/b\/news\/archive\/2010\/01\/08\/the-return-of-irrational-games.aspx\" >According<\/a> to Game Informer, the decision was made after the folks at Irrational Games noticed they kept being referred to as &#8220;2K Boston (formerly Irrational Games),&#8221; and then decided to make the obvious correction.<\/p>\n<p>Along with embracing their old name, Irrational Games is also opening a new website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irrationalgames.com\/\" >irrationalgames.com<\/a>. It&#8217;s just a countdown for now, but when it does count down, the site will feature behind-the-scenes content and &#8220;never before seen tidbits&#8221; about such classic Irrational Games games as the aforementioned BioShock, Freedom Force, and System Shock 2. <\/p>\n<p><!--End feature--> <\/p>\n<p>Buy This Item: <a class=\"buy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/buy.php\" ><span style=\"color: #33bc03\">[Click here to buy this item]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.1up.com\/do\/newsStory?cId=3177554\" >Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What once was Irrational Games and then 2K Boston is now once again Irrational Games, completing a circle of, well, irrational name-changing. The developer (responsible for such games as BioShock, Freedom Force, and System Shock 2, for those unawares) changed their name when they were purchased by Take-Two in 2006. According to Game Informer, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2CXE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}