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2003 Vaporware Awards
7x7 writes "Wired News has the 2003 Vaporware Awards available for your perusal. Winning the Lifetime Achievement Award, if you hadn't guessed already: Duke Nukem Forever!"
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Lifetime Achievement Award: Duke Nukem Forever
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10. RadioShark (Griffin Technology)
9. Amiga OS 4.0 (Amiga)
8. Wrist PDA (Fossil)
7. HDTV TiVo (TiVo)
6. RealPC (FWB)
5. Wi-Fi SD Card for Palm (SanDisk)
4. Team Fortress 2 (Valve)
3. Phantom Gaming System (Infinium Labs)
2. Fallout 3 (Black Isle Studios)
1. Half-Life 2 (Valve)
Once we begin taking pre-orders, believe us, you'll know about it. :)
The release date of this game is "When it's done". 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 game 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.
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Phantom Game Console isn't exactly vaporware. Photos of it are here. Not sure if this is a working model though.
In development since 1997, transferred to about 43 different development teams, this project was most recently killed by UbiSoft in November 2003. Amazon was still taking orders last time I checked though, nice of them. By the time it ships, no one will even remember the Cold War.
Bush Lies On the Record.
A long time ago, the EQ2 FAQ said that EQ2 would be out Q32003. Then, it said Q42003. Then it said Q12004.
Now, it simply says:
n will EverQuest II be released?
EverQuest II will launch in 2004.
I know that EQ2 will arrive eventually, but it definately fits in the group of "all those eagerly anticipated gizmos in 2003 that were put off, put away or quietly put down."
Isn't EQ a big game, relative to anyone that would be playing Duke Nukem, even if it had come out?
Incidentally, TiVo is supposed to be putting in XM capability into one of their new receivers, does anyone know if you'll be able to timeshift it?
Sigh.
No, they're not. They're adding the ability to use an XM receiver via HMO -- that's it. Nothing more. No, you can't timeshift it. It's essentially taking an XM receiver and making it networkable to HMO-enabled TiVos. It's really deeply underwhelming.
is actually coming out it looks like: models to be available
From the article: 'vaporware: n. See Duke Nukem Forever.'
Maybe you cannot be nominated more then 10 times in a row or so?
Or the fact that you can download it might disqualify it from being "vapor"-ware, at least to anyone who understands what the term means. Or are the usual anti-GNU shills more unaware than usual of common dictionary definitions of the terms they bandy about?
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I know one of the developers who post's on another board and he says they're making good progress. I admit sometimes the Amiga software has been behind the rest of the world at some time but it won't be long before there is a first release of the Amiga port.
Vaporware is when IBM comes to your company and says 'we have product X that will intergrate your Y and Z systems' when they have no such product. It is not uncommon for companies in niche markets to do such things. Companies like JDE/PeopleSoft/Siebel do it all the time to make sales. But, they do it because they know they have the resources to make it happen. Just because something is Vaporware doesn't mean it will never happen.
Perhaps most of the companies on the list should get a 'Ultra-Behind-Schedule' award instead, as it is pretty aparent that Valve does have HL2.
They don't need investors. They made enough money off of Duke Nukem and the Max Payne license to fund themseleves.
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Ahhh, the fond memories of my Intergraph Rendition Verite' 1000 card. You could play 3D accellerated vquake at 640x480 with all the prettiness of openGL at full speed on a Pentium 166; those were the days.
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The Official Duke Nukem Forever FAQ
There's really not much mentioning of the delay except that they changed engines during the development, which set them back quite a bit. But there is some interesting information regarding other apsects of the game.
And it still hasn't.
Stand up Silicon Film Technologies ...
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I'm a HUGE Deus Ex fanboy, but this sequel just doesn't feel a thing like the original. Has a serious case of "consolitis", due to the dev's designing for both X-Box and PC without considering the PC's strengths/weaknesses.
They took out most of what made the first so good and replaced them with dumbed-down versions or nothing at all.
Not to mention the complete rush job they did to get it out the door before christmas - there's a minimal patch out now, but I'm still waiting for a major one that improves playability to the point where I'd actually give it another shot.
And I seriously think they paid off most of the review sites - the game they're describing certainly isn't the one I bought. Anyone out there who actually liked DX:IW?
It's misspelled. Searching for Daikatana might be more fruitful.