Bioshock Remastered Collection.

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2K are set to release the Bioshock Collection pack in about 2 weeks.  This includes remastered versions of Bioshock 1 & 2.  If you own copies of either title, you're entitled to a free upgrade to the remastered version.  This is supposed to happen automatically if you have them in your steam account.

All fine and dandy if you own them on steam, right?  What about boxed retail copies?

Turns out 2K have you covered.

Bioshock 2 will activate directly by entering the GFWL code into the "Activate a Product on Steam" dialog in the Steam client.  (When I did this a couple of years back, I also got the Minerva's Den DLC, which was a nice surprise.)

For Bioshock 1, you'll need to contact 2K support (http://support.2k.com/).  Include a picture of the Installation DVD and the Manual, showing the activation key, and request an activation key for steam.  I did this last night, and received a key a few hours ago.

All in all, I'm rather impressed with 2K on this one.  They could easily have charged an upgrade fee (such as Square-Enix did with Deus Ex Human Revolution) but they haven't and that deserves recognition.