Publisher responds to BioShock prequel Internet rumour.

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2K Games said it has "nothing to announce at all" in response to rumours currently doing the rounds online that the inevitable sequel to many gamers' 2007 favourite BioShock will be a prequel and will depict the fall of Rapture.

Although not officially announced, a sequel to BioShock is pretty much guaranteed as a result of the game's surprise sales success.

And rumours surfaced on Sunday from Czech gaming site Hrej.cz, which said a source within 2K Games told them that not only was BioShock 2 already in the pre-production phase and scheduled for a mid-2009 release, but that the plot will be set before the events that took place in the original game.

When VideoGamer.com contacted 2K Games today for comment, a representative said the publisher had "nothing to announce at all", which doesn't quite refute the rumours, but doesn't give us anything to play with either.

Earlier Internet dirt dishing surrounding the development of BioShock alleged that 2K Boston, previously Irrational Games, experienced some internal problems when making the game, and that led to some of the developers to start up a new studio so that they could make BioShock 2 free from head honcho Ken Levine.

BioShock fans across the world will be hoping that the move won't have an adverse effect on the next instalment in what we, fingers crossed, reckon could be one of the greatest video game franchises ever.

You can see why we gave BioShock a perfect 10 in our review here, and what the recent widescreen enabling patch does for the looks of the game in our exclusive screenshots here.