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Irrational Games
Formerly
Irrational Games
(1997–2007, 2009–2017)
2K Boston
(2007–2009)
Company type
Subsidiary
Industry
Video games
Founded
1997; 27 years ago (1997)
Founder
Ken Levine
Jonathan Chey
Robert Fermier
Defunct
February 23, 2017; 7 years ago (2017-02-23)
Fate
Rebranded
Successor
Ghost Story Games
Headquarters
Westwood, Massachusetts
,
US
Key people
Ken Levine (creative director)
Number of employees
15 (2014)
Parent
2K (2006–2017)
Irrational Games (known as 2K Boston between 2007 and 2009) was an American video game developer founded in 1997 by three former employees of Looking Glass Studios: Ken Levine, Jonathan Chey, and Robert Fermier. Take-Two Interactive acquired the studio in 2006. The studio was best known for two of the games in the BioShock series, as well as System Shock 2, Freedom Force, and SWAT 4. In 2014, following the release of BioShock Infinite, Levine opted to significantly restructure the studio from around 90 to 15 employees and focus more on narrative games. In February 2017, the studio announced that it had been rebranded as Ghost Story Games and considered a fresh start from the original Irrational name, though still operating at the same business subsidiary under Take-Two.
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