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>> But does it run linux?

No. It seems that many believed/hoped it would, since it uses the doom3 engine. However, apparently ``There just really isn't any big demand for it" - see this post in this thread.
There isn't supposed to be a mac port either, so save your time if you're not a windows/xbox user.

>> But does it run linux?

No. It seems that many believed/hoped it would, since it uses the doom3 engine. However, apparently ``There just really isn't any big demand for it" - see this post in this thread.
There isn't supposed to be a mac port either, so save your time if you're not a windows/xbox user.

There is already a simple mod for the prey demo that allows this... http://forums.3drealms.com/vb/showthread.php?t=193 35 with a video demonstrations http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6727494773 800764468

Take a look at http://forums.3drealms.com/vb/showthread.php?t=193 35 -- supposedly a mod for Prey that adds dynamic portals.

The first game that disturbed me in a bad way was the first Duke Nukem

I can only assume you meant the first episode of Duke Nukem 3D. I was picturing the original Duke Nukem game, with Dr. Proton and all, and couldn't for the life of me recall any strippers in it.

The fact that someone mistook Duke 3D for the original Duke Nukem game shows that even I am getting old. *Sigh*.

Anything else, and we mean anything else is someone's speculation. There is no date. We don't know any date. If you have a friend who claims they have "inside info", or there's some office suite news site, or some computer store at the mall who claims they know - they do not. They are making it up. There is no date. Period.

And yes, we know the office suite has taken a long time. There's no possible joke you could make about the office suite's development time that we haven't already heard. :)

Except the one about us having bought out 3D Realms to redo the UI in Aero so it'll look cool under Vista, which is why their other project's a bit late, too.

*Ahem* Nice try, but everyone knows this is the real duke 3d screenshot. See, it's even located at 3drealms.com so I'm sure it's the real deal.

they already did it a few times.

they already did it a few times.

they already did it a few times.

they already did it a few times.

they already did it a few times.

they already did it a few times.

Hey wait, it's done!!!

3DR comments on this: http://forums.3drealms.com/vb/showthread.php?t=183 00.

Which is exactly why Duke Nukem Forever is just so awesome! They REALLY took the time to get it right.

That's what WoWs (LOLLERSKATES!) me about Blizzard. Diablo 2 came out in 2000. The latest patch came out in January 2006. That's just AMAZING to me: 5.5 years later they are still actively patching the game. I honestly can't think of another game that has had someone issuing patches for 6 years.

In a related story, the biggest game we've never played is described here.

Apogee (now going by 3D Realms) have released a bunch of their old game for free: Here

I'm now going to suggest something that I suggested at least a year ago and is even more feasible now:
CD burning stations in game stores. It need not be bigger than any of those displays which have a working playstation or whatever in them for people to use, so wouldn't take up more sales space than stores as used to giving up with those machines.
It would basically be a computer with a huge wad of storage space filled with game disc .iso s and a CD-R drive. Take your own disc (or buy one from the desk) put it in, put a few pounds/dollars in, choose your disc and burn away - it could even have a lightscribe drive to put a line-art version of the original disc art onto it. (or it could have a printer to print a sticky label and a copy of the license agreement).
All it needs from the game companies is their consent, the .iso of a disc and a pdf file of the manual (which would be included in the disc image). With the beauty of broadband internet, or just DVD discs to be copied onto the machine, it wouldn't be all that hard to keep updating the catalogue available in the machine.
Easy as pie.

No wait... seriously, if it weren't for games, I'm not sure but I think I would have switched to FreeBSD 6.0, and even upgraded my box to a Mac OS X capable box with an ATI card.

Doom on your iPod. Next thing you know, they're going to put Duke Nukem on the Atari 2600. Oh wait, they already did that.

Actually Duke Nukem Forever is also coming to the Atari 2600 (VCS). This is not an April Fools joke.

After all, 3D Realms are releasing Duke Nukem Forever on Atari 2600, but probably not on PSOne.

not really

Er? No, the reference is correct... It was a secret level in Ep6. http://www.3drealms.com/wolf3d/

Ahhh, the days when "3D" was a selling point and not an assumption.

I am working on including sole in our next FPS However, finding sensible ways to incorporate nocturnal flatfish into the plot is causing delays.

Duke Nukem Forever is already 'in development' for the Atari 2600...

You guys should follow the most excellent 3D Realms forums! George Broussard has provided us .. um.. "a lot" of info about DNF

It will come soon (as in 10 years), I'm sure! ;)

-- dbg

Several years ago I used to read almost daily the 3DRealms DNF forums, at least for some minutes. It got really boring, so what I do know (because, after all, I'm interested in this game) is what I think everybody should do:

* Stop caring about the release date. When it comes out, IMHO, it will probably be a very fun game after all. There's no need to "wait" for it. There are dozens of good games out there and at least one or two every year.

* Periodically, read the latest posts by George Broussard. I have bookmarked his recent posts page and I check it from time to time. He barely posts, but you'll know everything he said, which is virtually everything that appears on the Wikipedia about the game and the only information you can trust. As the Wikipedia article claims, GB has said several times they restarted the game and, since some months now he claims the game is in production, that all previous problems are solved, technology is always finished in time and they are creating content as fast as they can.

Good luck, 3DR. I'm a gamer after all, so I hope this game is good and worth playing. If not, well, I'll buy something else :D.

Check it: http://www.3drealms.com/history.html

They haven't done a damn thing worth noting in over six years. LMAO.

I went to the Duke Nukem forever website (http://www.3drealms.com/duke4/), and there is no mention of this. Is this a hoax?

It looks like 3d realms is hiring, maybe you could help them complete dnf?? http://www.3drealms.com/gethired.html#available

Yeah but you couldn't play games for the PC like Duke Nukem Forever on your old Atari ST. Oh wait....

Oh, come on. Duke Nukem Forever has been out for the Atari 2600 for ages. http://www.3drealms.com/duke4/dnf2600.html. Stop braging about the PC ;)

And yes, we know the game has taken a long time. There's no possible joke you could make about the game's development time that we haven't already heard. :)

We can only hope that during an interview he'll proclaim "Whoooo wanta some Whang?!?"

--falz

...as soon as I can trade saved Duke Nukem Forever games between it and my Phantom.

I already went to www.3drealms.com forums,

http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php ?Cat=0&Number=960968&an=0&page=0#960968

They've already denied the release date, the inquirer went into extra happy mode for an amazon website mistake, end of story. Move along folks.

It still exists for me. Maybe it was slashdotted...? ;)

http://www.3drealms.com/index.shtml

That's not an insider dev comment, you fucktard. That's a direct copy-and-paste from 3Drealms' website. Not to mention, if the game _was_ going to be released, they would probably have agreements with the stores in place long before it's announced on their website.

Actually... that would be 3D Realms. Sorry :)

That would be 3D Realms

Toshiba may be delaying the launch

And Max Payne

The other side of the coin is that computers weren't able to replicate a great platformer like Sonic for a long time after Doom.

Oh, really?

Rob

As opposed to a real game?

No, he meant a fake game.

Sorry, just couldn't resist.

-Grym

Yes, it was originally intended as a sequel. 3D Realms is a division of Apogee, but it wasn't formed until after ROTT came out. Apogee published Wolf3D for id, so they're not entirely unrelated.

You mean like shadow warrior which includes a URL on the back of the packaging for the "unlocked AO version".

We had the "good one". The software industry developed several game rating systems in response to the the Video Game Rating Act of 1994. The two major ones were the familiar ESRB rating system and another rating system developed by the Recreational Software Advisory Council (RSAC).

The RSAC system is the one you describe that used the thermometer style markings. The rating system had 5 levels in the areas of Violence, Nudity/Sex, and Language.

For a while, both systems were in use, and I remember quite clearly the thermometers on game boxes. However, the RSAC rating system was phased out in favor of the ESRB system, and the RSAC no longer exists as a game rating entity.

It's no mystery why this shift occured. The ESRB was established with the cooperation of both Nintendo and SEGA, and large merchants, like Toys 'R Us, would only carry games that were ESRB rated.

My FX5900 is still doing a great job for me both in Windows and Linux. Considering that my most GPU intensive games are Half Life 2, Doom 3, and Neverwinter Nights, I see no reason to upgrade in the near future.

Maybe when Duke Nukem Forever is released I'll think about an upgrade. The 5900 was a pretty substantial leap from my previous 4MX and has held up pretty well in the year or so that I've been using it.

In a brillant marketing sting, Steve Jobs of Apple, the Debian Developement Team and 3DRealms united and tried to get the attention of the world today by confirming the long rumored news of the release of their respective flagship products, the Intel-microprocessor based "Macintosh Computer", the linux operating sytem "Debian 3.1" and the so called first person shooter game "Duke Nukem Forever" within hours and by doing so slashdotting the website "Slashdot.Org" - the only thing of the whole internet thought to be unslashdottable.