Chris Kohler
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Daily <cite>BioShock</cite>: Banned From Valve's Office

Review scores? Sales? No, the real measure of a game’s success is when one of your competitors has to ban their own employees from playing it. Gabe Newell tells CVG that he’s had to ban BioShock from the Valve offices until The Orange Box is finished: Nobody gets to play it until Orange Box is […]

Bio580Review scores? Sales? No, the real measure of a game's success is when one of your competitors has to ban their own employees from playing it. Gabe Newell tells CVG that he's had to ban BioShock from the Valve offices until The Orange Box is finished:

Nobody gets to play it until Orange Box is done - that's our reward to ourselves as a company; everyone gets a copy of Bioshock. I haven't had a chance to play it. I'm really looking forward to it.

Meanwhile, the reward for the rest of us when The Orange Box is done is... a copy of The Orange Box.

Valve Bans BioShock From Office [CVG]