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Duke Nukem Forever in Production
An anonymous reader writes "Like that fungus under your keyboard, Duke Nukem Forever never really seems to go away. Well in the latest installment in unsubstantiated DNF rumors it appears that the game is finally in production. Via Joystiq "everyone's favorite vaporware is "in full production" according to George Broussard, co-founder of 3D Realms. In an interview with 1up, towards the end, Broussard chats about the status of Duke Nukem Forever, the unfortunately-apt title to the game over a decade in development."
- Greg
Start a happiness pandemic
they at least already started to code... :P
damn.. it's even slower development then I thought
and ever and ever....
Someone save me from this sanity.
Flying pigs have been spotted over Montana.
To Terminate, or not to Terminate, that's the question - SCSIROB
Breaking news, the world is flat and the sun revolves around the earth.
More news at 6!
""The rovers Spirit and Opportunity were proposed, authorized, announced, designed, launched and successfully landed upon Mars within the timeframe of Duke Nukem Forever's development."
Fleur de Sel
Hell freezes over, pigs fly, and Linux is standard on all new PCs.
When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl
In production means nothing. It could still not make it through to gold, because, lets face it, no game can live up to expectations of a 10 year wait. Trying to make a game fun is the hard bit.
Scared of flying, pointy things snce 1979!
So, there is a chance it actually *will* be released before Windows Longhorn/Vista ?
I heard the game will only be released for the Phantom console.
Is that "(Duke Nukem Forever) in Production" or "(Duke Nukem) Forever in Production"?
How exactly is it news that they're still working on it?
The message from GeorgeB is a little confused in the interview. He talks about character models almost being done (almost?) and guns being "finished". That sure doesn't seem like things are terribly far along - you build the props for a movie before you start filming, right?
But then at the end, he mentions that they're putting together some gameplay and making sure the game feels right. In either case, it seems like a "wait and see" approach is the best way to go. After all, if it sucks after all these years, it's no skin off our noses, is it? And if it's awesome, the delays will be forgotten or labeled "worthwhile" just like Half-Life and Half-Life 2's.
Today we mourn the loss of one of the longest running jokes on slashdot .
A joke that has been a stedfast for many an aspiring Troll and Humorist alike .
Like BSD before it , Duke Nukem forever jokes are now dead.
We all hope for a swift passing into the land of the dead , Also we hope that Frist psot and Soviet Russia jokes to follow soon... to um keep you company in the land of dead jokes.
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
Duke Nukem Forever you say? What is it? What happened untill now?
Check it out for yourself, from Wikipedia..
Dependency hell? =>
Duke Nukem Forever is slated to be released for the Play Station 6, which will, like all previous playstation consoles, feature real time toy story like graphics, and will be cutting edge, and also for the Xbox 36,000, which will require an entire garage to store the external PSU brick.
The right one was "Duke Nukem: Forever in Production"
From 3DRealms website:
"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."
3d Realms, Guns n' Roses
the most expensive album NEVER made (they say) http://www.gunsnroses.us/chinese_democracy_ever.h
that'd be funny to have GNR new album for DNF soundtrack. or not.
[chinese democracy starts now
I'm sure that's just George's way of making fun of people. Next thing we'll hear about it is that all this was a rumor and the game will be out When It's Done.
(note to self: bookmark this post to later point and say "I told you so")
Debian Sarge is released!
waaaait a second...
http://stoploudness.org/
I personally think this is a publicity stunt to head off lawsuits from investors.
"See, we're working on it!!!"
Finally, he sounds serious this time, so it's probably almost ready. They just need to solve some minor issues and testing. I can't wait to get my hands on a copy!
(note to self: bookmark this post to later point and say "I told you so")
By end 2006, we are gonna miss these all time hits from the charts
;)
1. Duke Nukem Forever (also Duke Nukem Whenever, Duke Nukem If Ever)
2. Windows Vista (formerly Longhorn)
3. PS3
Google's Beta products are good candidates, they never seem to get released too.
Life is just a conviction.
They always used to say not to consider what the project cost so far when deciding whether to continue, but what it will cost to bear into fruition.
However, that logic always seemed seriously flawed - if the past estimates on how much a project will cost were bad, what guarantee is there that the current estimates are good.
Seriously, what does 3DRealms (?) have to gain anymore? It's like a doomed government military project where they keep throwing good money into this black hole, never to see anything for their investment other than ridicule.
It makes the Daikatana folks seem professional.
Either way, 3D_Realms should just shut-up until the factories are actually packaging the CDs, or quietly kill the project.
Unfortunately it will only be available for Atari, BeOS and NeXT systems. Also it is especially optimized to work well with the GNU/Hurd kernel...
This means it won't be very long until the Mac version comes out!
... and then they built the supercollider.
Unfortunately though, I couldn't read it because my eyes kept getting drawn to the image of a man having some sort of unholy union with a metal spider thing. Which they kindly repeated at every opportunity. At least the ads are less offensive.
Well it should be better then the last offerings from Id, if it does come out...
While I appreciate that it's probably still the 1st where you are, it's February 1st, not April...
It's official. Most of you are morons.
A terrible news. If DNF will be finally released, all the jokes on /. of the kind "it will happen when DNF is released" are going to become true.
This will lead to the end of the world as we know it.
I'm scared, really scared....
-- "If A equals success, then the formula is A=X+Y+Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." - Einstein
Why?
...
because after all the delays, hype, anticipation
no matter how good the game is, hopes will be higher than it can deliver.
And reviewers will say: "Well, it might be the greatest game ever, but it wasn't worth the wait"
Exercise caution when modding this message up: the author acts like a jerk when his karma is excellent.
Two questions arise:
- have they really been developing non-stop of have they hust been slacking?
- will the final product (if ever available) appeal to the public? If it is the elaboration of an idea and concepts of ten years ago, won't it be outdated from day one?
This is yet another example of incorrect punctuation in a Slashdot submission. The title should, of course, read:
Duke Nukem - Forever in Production
Could it be? It might just come out? Maybe the Duke developers can give Valve a little boost so they will release Team Fortress 2...which should have came out in 2000 I think...
Well no, I don't have a link. But I'm just going to go out on a limb and assume that Slashdot has in fact discussed the imminent release of DNF more than once in the last 10 years.
"there's a lot that's finished. All the guns are finished. Most of the creatures are finished...we're just basically pulling it all together and trying to make it fun."
Shouldnt it be the other way around?
Start with a fun prototype, and slowly add to it. At least thats how its done in Japan (where I work).
For a minute I thought production meant it was being pressed onto discs... Then again I'm not a software developer.
"
1UP: And when's that due out again?
GB: [Laughs] I think it'll be out when pigs fly. But it's definitely going well now. Things are together; we're in full production. We're basically just pulling all the pieces together and making the game out of it. There's a lot that's finished. All the guns are finished. Most of the creatures are finished. And as I said, we're just basically pulling it all together and trying to make it fun. We've kind of got all these disassociated elements that make up a game, and you put them together and things happen. And then you just tweak it and polish it until it's fun, and that's kind of the phase we're in now, just trying to make something that is really fun to play and interesting.
"
The release of Duke Nukem Forever wouldn't kill the joke. It would enhance it, and it would evolve into an even more powerful joke, with bigger guns and more irony.
... and then they built the supercollider.
o Waiting for all the non-rich "Democrats" to realize Democrat politicians just sweet talked them and told them lies about being compassionate, understanding, diverse, etc. so they could fuck them.
Think about it. Slashdotters have been giving it grassroots promotion for years. It's such an ingrained part of our religion that buying a copy for me will be the Slashdot equivalent of a pilgrimage to Mecca.
Does anyone here know about its status elsewhere? A mere slashdotting may not be enough in the economy of the game market.
This is one of biggest jokes ever pulled on the game industry. You fools, the screenshots that came out where designed just for that, to fool you. "Forever" is in the games name. It's there to make people remember Duke Nukem forever. The game was never in production in the first place.
April fools day is still 2 months away.
For old farts the game has become a tired old joke, and the n00bs have never played any of the predecessors.
So I think it will fail due to obscurity, not hype.
They want their joke back
May the source be with you!
Duke Nukem. Forever in production
www.lemonodor.com A mostly Lisp weblog
George Broussard published the system requirements for the game :
IBM PC Pentium 200 or higher
Windows 95 or higher
32MB of RAM
4X CD-ROM drive
Sound Blaster 16 or Compatible
Optional: 3dfx Voodoo 2
wtf.n0x.org
My calander reads February 2, a little early for April fools jokes isn't it?
I think the people read it wrong. It should be
Duke Nukem:
Forever in Production
Greetings Thomas Mertes
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And it will cost less than a decent mobile phone..
There is no fungus under my keyboard. But then again I'm not a damn dirty GNU/hippie.
I fucking hate comedians.
A couple of flying pig eggs have started incubation.
I for one welcome our new flying pig overlords.
It's the apocalypse already?!
Mod points are a dangerous tool. Abuse them wisely.
enlightenment 0.17 will be out next month?
god I love this
1UP: You know, that's something you guys have gotten good at now, and that's kind of cool, because like you mentioned earlier, there's Rise of the Triad, and I remember that well--there's a lot of people who, even if they don't know the game, know the personality or know the franchise by name, right?
um... what was the question?
There is much cruelty in the universe, John.
Yeah, we seem to have the tour map.
The third horseman of the apocalypse...
...they're doing eXtreme Programming (dude).
They just got mixed up with the first iteration taking 6 *years*.
User Story 1: Reach 40 years old.
User Story 2: Develop new game involving voice acting:"It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum and I'm all out of gum."
Ok, it's just a theory, but it does fit...
N/A
...Is still 2 months away...
Who doesn't want to be able to share his "Man, I remember when I first played DNF..." story? And seriously, so what if it sucks? It'll be one game of ton more that will come out and suck this year. But if it's good? Well, kudos to them for making a good game, and good for all of us for having another bad game to play.
All I know is that if they have rockets and grenades go through teleporters like they did in Duke3d (and no other FPS has had since) then I'm fucking there.
They're still coding on it. If "in production" means they're still working on it, then this is a non-story, as they've been working on it for a long time now.
And it doesn't matter whether or not it `lives up to it's hype` as it doesn't have to. It just has to be a good game. I'll leave worrying about the hype of a game to marketing people, reviewers and fan boys.
Why didn't they just tell people that they weren't focusing on it earlier instead of stringing us along and letting it become a big joke? They've squandered a lot of good will and hype over the last gazillion years we've been waiting...
:)
Hopefully it won't be Daikatana, the gold standard of disappointing gaming vaporware
Chris
Maybe they started producing the game when there was huge demand for a sequel, and then were beset by delays. Unfortunately, this pushed the game past the point where it could cash in on the popularity of the original, and then they decided to wait until it'd been over 10 years since Duke Nukem came out and increase sales by selling to people for whom Duke Nukem 3-D was a fond childhood memory.
Wikipedia has a decent overview of the history. Man, I remember playing Duke3D when I was still in Highschool ;)
Wait, wasn't it Duke nukem Fornever?
Omry.
Ah, I remember those EGA games... Duke Nukem 2 wasn't interesting, and I only got Duke Nukem 3D because I recognized the name from the first series. I might just get DNF.
DNF has been in production all this time. This is nothing new.
Will code a sig generator for food
Does it?
It's all made up. It is simply an excuse for everyone who hasn't made a DNF joke to do so now.
Everyone says that the game wont live up to expectations. But, seriously, the game has been made fun of for so long that even if it' only average, people will say "We expected a lot worse, actuall". It's brilliant marketing!
Although we'll lose a good joke. But the joke might in the end be on us.
"Sure there's porn and piracy on the Web but there's probably a downside too."
Has it ever *not* been in production?
I mod down anyone who says "I will be modded down for this", regardless of the rest of their comment
I remember sort of a flying pig in Duke Nukem. It shot grenades out of its ass.
It would be appropriate if the new Duke Nukem had flying pigs,
phenixes rising from their ashes, vaporware enemies, and hm, well you get the idea.
Easier like this: (0x2B | ~ 0x2B) == 0xFF (modulo 0x100)
You know, I'm beginning to think that this inability of submitters or editors to actually read or comprehend the articles that they link to is deliberate. ZOMG, we're being trolled!
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
This joke just won't die! Hahaha...wait, what? He's not joking? I'll believe it When It's Done (tm).
Is Duke going to be in a wheelchair or have a walker?
I wholeheartedly agree!
Although Jedi Knight was cool, I didn't experience real online gaming until I got my hands on QuakeII CTF2 with MM^DarK's config.
After that, the first thing I do when I get a new game is turning textures and special FX off. If the game sucks then, it's not a game but an advanced pass-time. Atm, I only play Nexiuz: http://sigg3.net/b2perma.php?p=760 (Yes, I'm young.)
Defining Statistics and Social Research
... that's so like, totally... er... oh.
Sorry.
Never mind.
sig? Oh, that sig...
In other new, a plane had a near-miss with a flock of pigs while overflying London
That's bad news, because that could mean that i will have to finish all those pet projects, which i promised to my friends to complete within two weeks after DNF is released -- like graduating etc.
I wonder, what's the next milestone i should place in front of any of mine, should i delay doing anything untill Longhorn, or should i play safe, and promise to complete things after MS releases their source to competitors. (add "for free" to the end of last sentence if you want to play extra safe)
George W Bush has made a groundbreaking pact with new Palestinian government Hamas in an effort to curttail any call to arms against Israelis and further world peace. He also signed into effectiveness a bill that will allow scientists to deeply explore the possibilities of stem cell research. Sweeping tax cuts for the under $50,000/year crowd are scheduled to become effective March 1st, and heavy burden taxes on corporate heads, government lobbyists, and international oil consortiums will have to deal with what is being labelled as economic rejeuvenation for the United States. World peace is being discussed later this month at a global summit, including despot leader Kim Jong-Il of North Korea and the heads of every major country in the world, with many saying, "The time has come to put aside all differences and make the world a place for our children. We have, for too long, seen only the short-term picture."
In other news Jesus Christ phoned Oprah last evening, and has said he will be coming again, but the strife and conflict is merely a misinterpretation of the scripture. In acutality he has a deal in the works for a summer action flick to celebrate his coming out...
All the world's a stage, all the people but players.
It seems the DNF team noticed that Mother 3 got a release date and didn't want Itoi to steal their thunder.
Your ad here.
and they just restarted production of Amigas, the corporation was once again purchased, this time by a reclusive billionaire, the new Amiga chassis will be made from hand crafted spruce and be the world first general purpose quantum computer capable of real time holographic display......
"And yet still people are asking: Where's Duke Nukem?"
Well they've got their answer now.
I played this game back in the day on my trusty PS/2 Model 30.
I think every other Duke Nukem version after this one was gilding the lily.
"Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair" - George Washington
Those system requirements match the PSP rawther well. Should we be expecting a port? Or will 3DRealms downscale the design to the Nintendo DS in order to take advantage of the system's keyboard-and-mouse-like touch screen setup?
There goes Porky...
the xbox was announced, designed, conceived, played, outdated, and spawned a child know as the xbox 360 (also annouced, designed, conceived and played) all before this game was completed.
A year or so ago I would have said that something was as likely as being able to play DN:Forever on an Intel Mac with an Apple made multi-button mouse...
Seriously I think Lucifer may have left the air-con on high.
I've experiments to run, there is research to be done on the people who are still alive.
The Duke Nukem Forever Delayed jokes may now be dead but we now have the undying ID (Intelligent Design) joke, which may indeed be forever.
Joke Intelligent designers:
Aliens(1)
Aliens(2)
God(1)
God(2)
General:
The Skeptic's Dictionary
Creation & Intelligent Design Watch
National Center for Science Education
Editor, I'm not the best with grammar either, but I'm fairly certain that one of these is the acceptable form:
Duke Nukem, Forever in Production
Duke Nukem; Forever in Production
Duke Nukem: Forever in Production
In that we hear the same announcement over and over again!
Monstar L
This is the home of my port of 3D Realms Entertainment's Duke Nukem 3D to Windows using my port of Ken Silverman's Build game engine. It is work in progress so that means it might crash and burn and be unstable.
Notices
9 October 2005 - New release
http://jonof.edgenetwork.org/index.php?p=jfduke3d
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
In other news, Australian tectonic plate heading towards Asia at full speed now!
They got the guns and monsters. That's like, 30% of the work. since the end of the design phase. Add to that maps (30%), engine (30%), piecing it all together (10%). Development phase is about 50% time. 25% for design and preparations, 25% for betatesting, bugfixes and release.
So given their current speed and progress (about 45% of the whole project) I predict DNF around 2018. That's a realistic date.
Anagram("United States of America") == "Dine out, taste a Mac, fries"
They're having trouble with the drivers for the Optimus Keyboard.
3D Realms should just release DNF or shut up about it. Surprise us when it is done. We are tired of waiting anyways.
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
There was a Justice League comic I remember from long, long ago. An alien menace of some sort has turned up with a huge fleet of horribly beweaponed starships. They mean to conquer the earth, enslave all humanity, plunder natural resources, etc. and to do so for a profit. The fleet commander's robotic adjutant turns up from time to time to give him a projection on the profits expected from the mission.
Up go our bold heroes, the lot of 'em, and take on this fearsome force. Cue enormous space battle. The League pound on these ships and do some considerable damage, but it's clear enough the aliens are winning, that the heroes are doomed if things continue.
But meanwhile, the robot is factoring in the projected costs of repairs to the fleet. Every profit projection is a little lower. So:
"Projected profit: 8444000 credits."
"Projected profit: 6214330 credits."
"Projected profit: 2770450 credits."
"Projected profit: 540800 credits."
"Projected loss: 10 credits."
And suddenly, the entire fleet vanishes into hyperspace all at once, leaving behind a party of very bewildered superheroes...
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
A new 10-year old game, eh? I take it it'll be released straight into the bargain bin then?
Duke Nukem, forever in production.
If Microsoft was mass, stupidity would be gravity.
In Soviet Russia, Duke Nukem Forever waits for YOU! So can one of you ruskies send me a copy?
If that's the best spin he can put on it, then it's not sounding good. It suggests that there's still a lot that isn't finished. The really worrying part was the bit about fun. Oh dear. I'm not convinced you can just bolt that on at the end - it should be core to the design.
Having said that - I really hope that they do finish, and that it is fun, but I don't have high hopes.
DN3D is still cool though, despite its age (when 800x600 seemed like the ultimate in high resolution, my 120MHz 486 was amazingly fast, memory was much too expensive, and graphics cards could use screamingly fast PCI!).
According to some tabloids, they are. (Later this year) http://www.albumvote.co.uk/news/news.php?id=1103
Harald
In Korea, only old people mourn jokes.
See... that makes much more sense. Just a typo.
Ten years of development, and the *guns are finished*?!
Holy f*ck. I can't believe they're still in business, let alone have any funding to continue working on this.
The guns are finished.
It looks like 3d realms is hiring, maybe you could help them complete dnf?? http://www.3drealms.com/gethired.html#available
nothing
Duke Neukem forever really does take forever.
... that "DNF" denotes something entirely different in the racing world, but seems completely appropriate for this game. It ain't Duke Nukem Forever, that's for sure.
This game was supposedly in full production almost 10 (that's one-zero) years ago. On the scale of game lifetimes, this one wouldn't even be good enough for the bargain bin if they finished with the tech they started with. In the beginning, it was using the Quake 2 engine while Quake 2 was still in production. They then switched to the Unreal (the original Unreal) engine somewhere around 99 I think. Occasionally, you'd hear something about DNF being legit and that someone playtested it. It supposedly had unparalleled levels of interactivity with the surrounding environment.
Many games have been announced, developed, and shipped since the days when 3D Realms first started "not hyping" DNF. I think 3D Realms is even worse than I am about starting a project and not completing it, except that my projects cost significantly less.
This news article is to keep 3D Realms from falling off the map. They are supposedly making Prey now, another game that got shelved in favor of Duke Nukem Forever, shortly after the release of Quake. (The brown one)
Can we PLEASE have some Bruce Campbell?!
Feb 2nd, 2006 - a decade = Feb 2nd, 1996. Feb 2nd, 1996 - ('over a decade' = 1) = Feb 2nd, 1995 Duke Nukem 3D came out on January 29, 1996. There seems to be a bit of a math problem here. According to Wikipedia's Duke Nukem Forever artical: "It is notorious for its protracted development, which has been ongoing since 1997."
Netcraft confirmed early this morning that Duke Nukem Forever jokes are now dead.
A NYC lawyer blogs. http://www.chuangblog.com/
This announcement was supposed to be released on April 1st, as it has for the last 10 yrs...
DNF stood for "Did not Finish" (ie. racing...). Very apt wouldn't you say?? :)
You can't have it both ways.
Am I going to have to find my old MS-DOS 3.3 disks for this?
I went to the Duke Nukem forever website (http://www.3drealms.com/duke4/), and there is no mention of this. Is this a hoax?
Just in time!! I just finished Daikatana!
That Duke Nukem Forever is going to be released on the Phantom console. Due out real soon now... That's what I heard anyway...
My humor is probably your flamebait
You can't have it both ways.
Am I the only one for whom this seems backwards, or is this typical for modern game development?
Mod me lamer, but isn't making a game fun a quite big development step, and high up in the priorities list?
Adventure, Romance, MAD SCIENCE!
If DNF actually does come out, it will retail for like $500 to help pay for 10 years of development.
When faced with a problem, many web developers say "I know, I'll use JavaScript!".
Now they have two problems.
'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.'
Why, oh, why is a sucker born every minute?
Duke Nukem? Forever.
There, fixed it for ya.
Wait...
Remember, open source is free as in speech, not free as in bear.
Stargate is just a rehash of 19th century and early 20th century colonial stories. The white people discover the world they've been living in is a tiny portion of the real world. They head out to a world full of old and rich empires. Everywhere they go the royalty of the nations have enormous riches and many times more soldiers, but somehow lack the European cleverness and inventiveness that allows the Europeans to always, always win.
Campbell was big on this stuff. The foundation series was Isaac Asimov's reaction against it. Star Trek used to have it too, but they were always less explicit than Stargate dares to be. Hell, T'ealc is even the Inscrutable Native Guide.
So yeah, every other race is stupid in Stargate, but that's jes 'cause they's negros an' injuns. Makes the few heavy-handed anti-racism episodes look truly ridiculous.
I wonder if pre-ordering DNF counts as a long term investment.
"I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability."-Oscar Wilde
...DNF has been the longest running joke in gaming because the company never really commited to it either way; they wouldn't come right out and say it was cancelled, but there wasn't exactly a derth of announcements for an Xmas 199X-20XX release.
That said, it's definitely more low key than the whole Daikatana fiasco, which came right out and promised a revolution in gaming, John Romero was gonna make me his b**ch, etc. That kind of bravado is just *asking* for a response, and Ion Storm was unable to deliver the goods; the backlash was guaranteed.
Here, though, they've promised, well, nothing. They never even promised that the game was going to be released. Assuming that they stick with the Duke Nukem 'Don't take it too seriously' creed, I'll forgive them subpar graphics so long as it's a solid, funny, and slightly twisted game.
Frankly, we need a dose of humor, especially in the FPS genre. In that respect, they've already delivered, many many many many many times over.
Here's a thought. What if the 3D Realms folks wrote DNF to run native on Linux using OpenGL, and they have been waiting for the Linux desktop market to stomp Windows the way it has done in servers? Quick, to the Fedora site Robin!
(BTW-If Redhat had any business sense, they would offer alternate distro bundles that had major games pre-install through RPM files.)
"Sic Semper Path of Least Resistance"
Netgear is founded January 8, 1996.
Intel releases the 200 MHz P6.
IMDb becomes incorporated as the Internet Movie Database, Ltd.
Google is first developed by Sergey Brin and Larry Page.
KDE is started to be developed by Matthias Ettrich
Macromedia purchases FutureWave and later releases Macromedia Flash 1.0
The CDA amendment to the U.S. 1996 Telecommunications Act that went into effect on February 8, 1996.
Cray Research merges with SGI.
ATA-2 is approved by ANSI.
IBM and Sears sell Prodigy is sold to Internet Wireless.
AT&T introduces Worldnet.
Microsoft introduces DirectX.
AT&T spins off the system and technology unit which renames itself Lucent Technologies.
IBM computer Deep Blue beats chess master Garry Kasparov in two chess matches.
NEC merges its PC operations outside Japan with Packard Bell.
Microsoft re-invents itself to respond to the fast-growing popularity of the Internet.
Sony enters the PC market with the release of VAIO.
Creative Labs introduces the 3D Blaster card its first graphics card to be released to the computer market.
Apple Stock sinks to a 10-year low of less than $18.00 a share.
U.S. Robotics Pilot is announced.
Seagate has completed the merger of Conner Peripherals.
Microsoft releases Windows NT 4.0. Final code count: 16 million lines.
Tandy Corp. announces it will either sell or close all of its 17 incredible Universe stores and 19 of its Computer City stores because of low sales and losses in revenue.
WebTV is introduced allowing users to browse the web from their TV.
MSNBC makes its debut.
Microsoft introduces the IntelliMouse also known as a wheel mouse.
Acer America Corporation introduces its designer home PCs.
Sun Microsystems releases its line of network computers.
Apple buys NeXT Software Inc. for $400 million and acquires Steve Jobs, Apple's cofounder, as a consultant.
Microsoft Windows CE 1.0 is released as a portable Operating System solution.
Seymour Cray passes away October 5, 1996.
K56Flex is announced in November by Lucent and Rockwell.
AMD releases K5 processor.
Internet Explorer 3.0 is released.
..joke? I am picturing descendants of the original publisher in hundred of years to come still releasing a screen shot a year.
Check it: http://www.3drealms.com/history.html
They haven't done a damn thing worth noting in over six years. LMAO.
no game can live up to expectations of a 10 year wait.
Forget that -- I want to know why anyone expects DNF to live up to the standards of a *regular* game. Why would DNF be an exceptional game? Because it has the same name and possibly a few characters as an ancient game?
Sequels make sense when they're truly related to the earlier work. Bungie's Marathon series was good right through the series. That was because the game design was still fairly new and interesting for the time, and the same team was working on the games. It was legitimate both to expect "more of same" from the same people, and that "more of same" would be a good thing.
But, while I'm not familiar with DNF development, I doubt that the same team is working on the second game -- and that's what makes the game good, the artists and musicians and programmers and writers. Even if it was the same collection of people, I'm not sure that a team that could produce "more of same" would be a good thing.
I've only played a little Duke Nukem 3D, but I remember that the game was mostly notable for its simple, crude humor and its ability to allow you to have simple interactions with objects. (And according to WP, the mundane environments, instead of Quake's fantastic ones.) None of this is exceptional any more. The only "edge" that I would expect DNF to have over any other modern game is that some of its marketing work will have been done for it -- people with fond memories of Duke Nukem 3D might remember the name and want to buy it. Possibly that means that a smaller percentage of the funding need be blown on marketing for DNF.
Other than that, there's no reason to expect that DNF would be better than any other new game coming out.
Furthermore, DNF has constraints on it that a new game does not. This is most commmonly visible (in an extreme form) in "video games of movies". Most people who follow the video game industry know that video games based on movies tend to review rather badly. Some of this is undoubtedly due to time pressure, but I would suggest that some of it is because the game developers are constrained to follow the movie and figure out ways to incorporate the movie into the game, instead of having no restrictions on their ability to do what is necessary to develop a good game. This restriction, to a lesser degree, is present in game sequels like DNF. (Plus, these video games based on movies have the same marketing edge that DNF can be expected to have, yet they are frequently pretty bad.)
So I just can't see why anyone would expect DNF to be a particularly good game any more than I would expect a modern remake of a classic movie to be any better than any other modern movie.
Sometimes it's nice to just let pleasant memories lie and go on to producing new, different ones...
Any program relying on (nontrivial) preemptive multithreading will be buggy.
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You like your new Mac more than you like me, don't you, Dave? Dave? I asked...She said Yes.
they're complaining about the sudden snowstorm.
Wow, maybe the Messiah is coming sometime. I have to go write to the Rebbe, he said it first!
Hey, a flying pig!
God isn't dead!
Best show (of ANY genre) I've seen in a loooong time. I had to download all the episodes to catch up as I just got into it recently. Well worth it.
That doesn't sound like a good sign. Good games are usually fun long before all the bells and whistles are added and the last open bugs are squashed. Fun isn't something that can be tacked onto a game at the last moment; either the game's core aspects are fun or they aren't. And you can't really go changing the core aspects of the game right before launch.
That it will be available in stores everywhere, in the springtime after hell freezes over.
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
I was always partial to calling it 'Duke Nukem: Whenever' myself. All I can say is after all this time, it had better be something truly spectacular, and not using an engine from the era in which it's concept was concieved.
BeauHD. Worst editor since kdawson.
Did Not Finish.
Six score characters.
Brevity being wit's soul
I have enough space.
"(...) the game over a decade in development." Hummm 2006 - 1997 = 9... over a decade? Come on, guys, sure, 9 years it's a lot, but no need to puff up the numbers...
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It's been in production for, what, 10 years now? How many engines have they developed with and released screenshots for? It's still in "when it's done" status, and nobody even cares about Duke Nukem any more (if they even remember him).
Arguing about vi versus Emacs is like arguing whether it's better to make fire by rubbing sticks or banging rocks.
Oh. Well, good luck with that.
Duke is a novelty game. Maybe they thought waiting this long they could reuse the same jokes and make them seem funny again. Anyway, I'm to the point of just not caring anymore. I would rather play a new System Shock or Quake Wars FPS.
/rant
/tnar
And damn them if they put it on a console and call it a FPS game. I could jump, spin 180 and headshot your analog stick controller punk ass before you could switch weapons.
Read my sig! That's right, keep reading...
HA! yea...right (wink wink). Next you'll be telling me that Apple is going to be switching to Intel and TV shows will be legally available for download on the web.......
Article says: "Duke Nukem Forever in Production" It SHOULD say, "Duke Nukem, Forever in Production."
Personally I think the whole Duke Nukem scam/thingy is the most brilliant con ever created by programmers. Think! There are people who have had salaried positions for what....over 10 YEARS without ever shipping a product. Why ship it, just keep saying "It's commin soon!" and go back to your cube, eat cheetos, fart and play another round of other videogames.
Damn! I wish I worked there!
"I'm too young to remember this game!" (Yeah its been *that* long, some kids wouldn't even know what the game is) Reminds me of the kids nowadays who have no clue what a record (vinyl) is or even VHS! Here's an example, "You mean you lived before there were even DVDs!"
Duke Nukem
forever in production.
Bullshit!
Figures. This is Slashdot.
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:
:D.
* 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
This post scared the crap out of me! I thought for a minute that it was April 1st and that I had completely missed February/March! Imagine my releif to realize that I hadn't jumped forward in time to an April fools joke, but that it was simply end of the world.
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So what if it took a while, because now it's ready to kick ass and chew bubble gum...and it's all out of gum.
"Duke Nukem Forever in Production" could easily mean "Duke Nukem (Forever in Production)"
They've ran into some slight delays, as the budget for developing the game depends heavily on how well their "Snowballs from Hell"-delivery service works out..
A horse can't be sick, you know, even if he wants to.
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So I can run this exciting game on it.
Kudos to both software development groups with their stable and done products.
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Dood, U R vry desperate!!!11 Stargate is teh suxor!1
As for those with half a brain, turn off your TVs if you really think Stargate is quality programming. Stargate isn't quite the A-Team of the modern era. Now, that's an insult.
Modding parent "insightful," ha!
Team fortress 2 anyone?
Damn, doesn't anyone read anymore?
Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
I got the RSS feed and for a second there, I could swear it was a headline on The Onion...
So, all this time, DNF was just pining for the fjords?
Damn, is it 2025 already? I've got to apply for Social Security. Is there still Social Security? Serves me right for falling asleep at my keyboard for 20 years. Got to get a new computer. What is it going to take to run Duke Nuke em Forever? Is Kray making home computers now? If Moore's law held out I'll bet PCs are really fast now. Bet I can even play Doom 3 on them.
I've been a libertarian for years. I believe in smaller government, legalizing victimless crimes, smaller army, and no wars of agression. On a large number of topics though I do differ in opinion from the Libertarian party's agenda, but they're the closest I've found to what I believe in.
The major two parties both believe in unlimited expansion of the federal gov't, persecuting and incarcerating people who commit victimless 'crimes', bigger army, and wars of foreign aggression.
I can't even tell the difference between dems and repubs any more to tell you the truth, except for the abortion issue, and even on that there seems to be a growing number of 'moderates' in both parties who take the opposing party's position on that issue.
Duke Nukem Forever is often abbreviated as DNF.
This is commonly used in races and competitions for: Did Not Finish
They keep trying to play catch up with the engine, and forget to make the game playable.
They should have released the first instance, then made another later.
ooooh Maybe Benny Hinn _was_ right.. maybe the Rapture _is_ comming!!
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Sources maintain that the release date is unchanged.
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They promised that they will port it to Plan 9, anyone know anything details on when?
Perhaps your insane fringe beliefs aren't as popular as you think they are. Your very existence is a "troll" perpetrated on all humanity. Prepare to be modded accordingly.
Absolutely ! When it ships, I for one am going to buy a copy... even if never open the box (in the eventuality there is no Linux version).
The most famous vaporware in existence has to be a HUGE success.
-- javaDragon is an instance of JavaDragon.
If they have Duke Nukem content, the could sell it later as a mod or expansion of some sort.
Nope, not April 1.
Perhaps we need to look at this message before you go to using it to say they're out to get your money.
... the tax cuts may have helped you,' - this does not describe the average person. Moreso its directed to the rich people attending the party.
First, the location:
a Democratic fundraiser as quoted in the Associated Press; June 29, 2004
That would indicate that she's talking to people who are giving a big chunk of money to the cause. This often includes:
1) High end businessmen
2) other politicians
3) People who are Rich in general.
To back this up, look at this : "'Many of you are well enough off that
"probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.'"
To Summerise, She's saying, "We're not going to give the UPPERCLASS any more tax cuts, infact we may increase them(As economical common sense usually dictates) to help pay for things that the Current government(Republicans, Past Democrates, Whoever.) are taking out of the Average joe's pocket instead.
After waiting for so long, I guess it would be more appropriate to title this post "Duke Nukem in production Forever".