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Duke Nukem Forever Tops Vaporware List

Posted by Zonk on from the smells-like-burning dept.

Wired has an annual list of high-profile vaporware projects and the number of games on there is just depressing. Numbers 7, 6, 5, 2, and 1 are all videogame projects. When the Phantom is only #2, you know what has to be number 1. From the article: "Announced in 1997 and promised every year since, this game takes vaporware to new heights. Think about it, in just 13 months this game will have been in one form of development or another for a decade. This project started with a game based on the Quake 2 engine, then in 1999 it moved to the Unreal engine and has been stalled ever since."

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  1. But But But by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 3, Funny

    Duke Nukem is in production?

    Say it ain't so.

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    liqbase :: faster than paper
  2. Don't Panic by someguy456 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't worry, it's painfully obvious that DNF will run on Vista running on a Phantom. In fact, these have the same launch day...

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    Robert Bindler
    A Computer Science student's views on technology.
  3. What?? by Ramble · · Score: 1, Funny

    Can't wait to get home so I can play Duke Nukem Forever on my 8-core Phantom while talking to my mates using a VOIP phone and recording HDTV over IPTV on my Media Center machine with a super-fast fiber-to-the-home connection.

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    "Oh boy"
  4. Woah. News. by Kid+Zero · · Score: 3, Funny

    Congratulations to the DNF team. Now we know what they mean by "Forever".

  5. For runners, DNF == Did Not Finish by SurryMt · · Score: 5, Funny

    Could there be a little similarity here?

  6. Re:DNF by bigbigbison · · Score: 4, Funny

    To be fair, in America, there are still very few PC videogames released on DVD -- and when they are, it is usually as a more expensive "collector's edition" while the regular version is still released on CDs.

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    http://www.popularculturegaming.com -- my blog about the culture of videogame players
  7. Re:Duke Nukem needs a DNR by VRisaMetaphor · · Score: 2, Funny

    That would be so embarassing! Thank god my shoes don't have buttons.