If you are serious about costumes (how can one not be serious about them?), I suggest you pay Looptid Leather’s Etsy shop a visit. On sale right now is a Big Sister Costume from the game Bioshock 2. One look at this costume, and you’ll know it is not for the faint of heart.

I don’t play Bioshock – 1 or 2 – so I probably do not fully appreciate just how awesome this custom-made costume is, but judging from the creator’s description, this is no small feat. And one can’t really deny the attention to detail in making this costume! Take a look at all the pieces that make it up.

Here’s an itemized list of those pieces:

• 1x Big Sister Helmet
• 1x Big Sister Chest piece
• 1x Big Sister “air tank” (non functional)
• 1x Leather corset/shirt
• 1x leather pants (upper and lower sections)
• 1x pair of leather boot spats (wear over your shoes and they appear as boots)
• 1x pair elbow pieces
• 1x pair wrist leather sections
• 1x pair gloves (only cover top of hand so one size fits all)
• 1x pair leg braces
• 1x large spike/needle attachment
• 1x small spike/harpoon wrist attachment

So what will it cost you to get your hands on the costume? A whopping $600! And one more thing, the costumer was made to fit someone who is 5 feet 11 inches with a 32-inch waist. The costume was supposed to be created to be adjustable to fit any body size, although I am not sure how it will go if you’re female and well-endowed…

Any takers? If you don’t do Halloween, you now have an excuse to throw a costume party – just because you can.

If viral teaser sites that have popped up on the net can be believed, we are about to get more details and possibly the imminent arrival of the sequel to the hit game — Bioshock 2: Sea of Dreams. It’s no surprise that the sequel to Bioshock is currently being developed by 2K Marin. But details about the new game has not been readily available until lately.

A visit at the site somethinginthesea.com, which has just recently gone live, will show you an image of an old world map that has an X mark located in the western coast of Ireland. The mark, dated February 20, 1967, is about seven years after the events that transpired in the original game. There are photos, notes and newspaper clippings located within the site.

The newspaper clippings tell the account of what would be the apparent kidnapping of a girl by a mysterious entity that, based on the descriptions in the article, may be a new kind of Big Daddy or Splicer.

We’ll be keeping an eye out on somethinginthesea.com and provide you with more details about Bioshock 2, which is tentatively slated to be released within the year for the PS3, Xbox 360, and the PC.