There's a completely unsubstantiated rumor afoot that there's a BioShock MMO in the works. The original source seems to be Destructoid.com. Here's what they have to say, “We've heard from a mysterious source (possibly a roaming Ekans) that 2K Games... is hard at work in a secret location and tinkering with a massively multiplayer online game set in the BioShock universe.” And that's about it.  There's not a lot of there there, but just the thought of a BioShock MMO has the intertubes abuzz. G4TV, Kotaku, and a slew of other gaming sites have all picked up on the Destructoid article, which, if you read the Destructoid post, could easily be attributed to little more than wishful thinking.

But don't you love wishful thinking? Wouldn't you love to see a BioShock MMO? That would be awesome sick, wouldn't it? 

Big Daddys are tailor-made to be world bosses. Is there anything like BioShock's skill system in MMOs? That would be wild. Imagine if you could re-spec. And wouldn't it be a blast to choose your own path, whether to go good or evil? And the undersea, retro world would be such a novel setting for an MMO.

Yeah, we sure wish there was a BioShock MMO. That would be so sweet. Ah, to dream...

While we're making wishes, here are 5 other games we'd like to see made into MMOs. Completely unconfirmed and unsubstantiated rumors – sort of like the one about the BioShock MMO – say they're all in the works. (We wish.) 

Will the next chapter of Resident Evil be an MMO? According to several totally unconfirmed sources, Capcom and Sony Online Entertainment have teamed up to make a Resident Evil MMO. Utter hearsay says the title of the new MMO is Resident Evil: Zombie's Gone Wild.

Resident Evil has all the elements you love in your MMOs: Heroes – Jill Valentine, Claire, Chris Redfield; Villians – the Umbrella Corporation; and big, bad monsters – zombies. And who doesn't like killing zombies? Or maybe playing zombies...? Brains. Brains. 

Where, oh where is Half-Life 3? You've been waiting a long time for the next Half-Life installment, haven't you? No doubt, you're beginning to suspect it's just so much vaporware ala Duke Nukem. (/sarcasm At least Valve keeps publishing Left 4 Dead and updates to Team Fortress 2. )

Well, you can put all your misgivings into a nice little box and store them away. Several hypothetical sources, Fifi the talking dog, and a loquacious parrot all confirm that the next installment of Half-Life will be Half-Life Online, the MMO. 

Wouldn't the gravity gun be cool MMO weapon? Just hope you'll be able to use it on the chat trolls.

No surprise that many baseless rumors swirl around a potential Borderlands MMO. The game already feels like an MMO. There's all that cool loot, the awesome weapons, and a large world to explore. Brick, Mordecai, Lilith, and Roland are all MMO archetypes you know and love: Brick's a tank; Mordecai's ranged DPS; Lilith's melee DPS; and Roland's a pet class. Plus, the skill trees are already in place for all the classes.

Borderlands is so close to being an MMO, already, baseless rumor says that all 2K and Gearbox have to do to get their MMO up and running is throw a switch on their super-secret MMO servers hidden away in their top-secret server farm somewhere in Idaho. And you thought they just grew potatoes there.

Everyone who was disappointed in Dungeons and Dragons Online raise your hand. Let's see... Wow! That's a lot of hands. Well, this time it's in the confident and reliable hands of Bioware. The entirely untrustworthy word on the street is that Bioware is going to take the Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) world of their Neverwinter Nights franchise and turn it into an MMO. 

Yeah, D&D fans around the world can relax, now. It looks like a gaming company with some chops is finally going to give their beloved game the MMO treatment it so richly deserves.

Neverwinters Nights is, simply put, the best D&D computer game, ever. It has great characters, a vast world, an immersive story, and almost endless gameplay. It feels in every way like a true D&D adventure. It will make a fantastic MMO. 

Speaking of Bioware, wouldn't Knights of the Old Republic make an absolutely awesome MMO?  Star Wars, Jedi Knights, the Force... Dude, don't you get hyper-excited just thinking about?

Oh, wait.  :D

(The author would like to thank the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, and the Tooth Fairy for their contribution to this article.)