BioShock PS3 gold, ending unchanged

Check off "done" on your BioShock for PlayStation 3 scorecard, along with date, demo, DLC, and disk space. Are we missing anything? Well, for one, a different ending -- but that's been shot down into a flaming pile of sinking wreckage to cut costs [maintain the original production]. "When you get a chance to work on something that was really creative you get the temptation to re-do things," senior producer Melissa Miller told MTV Multiplayer. "We chose not to." Fine, but a simple, "play the original / alternative ending" option would have satisfied purists (and encouraged some of us to buy the game again, too!).

Experience the rapturous adventure -- leading up to the faulty, final hours -- when BioShock for PS3 arrives in North America on October 21 and internationally on October 17. The DLC scenarios will be available "shortly after launch" -- pricing will be specified at a later date.