2K Games' BioShock, if you hadn’t yet heard, is really rather good. To date, it’s easily the game of 2007 and lives up to the hype. And some. Buy it. Play it. Tell all your friends.

It comes as little surprise, then, to hear that shares in Take Two Interactive, the parent company of publisher 2K Games, jumped by 10 per cent yesterday following the US release of BioShock for the Xbox 360 and PC.

"There's a lot of excitement over BioShock," said analyst Mike Hickey of Janco Partners. "This could be a huge profit generator for them," he added.

Wow! SPOnG is often in awe of analysts’ amazing ability to see patterns emerging and make such seemingly outlandish predictions, where we mere mortals couldn’t possibly fathom all of this out for ourselves.

Thanks, games industry analysts, for stating the bleeding obvious.

Rumours of a PlayStation 3 version of BioShock have been doing the rounds since the game was originally announced for 'next-gen consoles', though there is still no official confirmation on a PS3 release. It’s just a matter of time though, so watch this space for that news.

BioShock finally releases in the UK and Europe this Friday, which is thankfully a bank holiday weekend. Get ready to throw some sickies at work in the coming weeks.