Irrational Studios LLC (formerly Irrational Games LLC and later 2K Boston, Inc.), doing business as Irrational Games, is a video game developer founded in 1997 by three former employees of Looking Glass Studios: Ken Levine, Jonathan Chey, and Robert Fermier. On January 9, 2006, Take-Two Interactive announced that they had purchased Irrational, and would publish their games under the 2K Games label. In 2000, Irrational Canberra was founded (and later renamed to 2K Australia in 2007). A third studio, 2K Marin, was split off from Irrational in 2007, with five former Irrational Games employees leaving to join the new company. 2K Marin and 2K Australia would later work together on BioShock 2, while Irrational was developing BioShock Infinite. In 2014 the studio began a major restructuring in wh