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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. DNF isn't dead! by Esine · · Score: 2, Informative

    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

  2. For those too lazy to RTFA by ThomS · · Score: 5, Informative

    The list: 10. High-def TiVo and TiVoToGo for Mac 9. AlphaGrip ergonomic keyboard/trackball 8. Blu-ray or HD-DVD discs 7. Team Fortress 2: Brotherhood of Arms 6. Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess 5. StarCraft Ghost 4. Microsoft's Vista and Internet Explorer 7 3. Google -- betas galore 2. Phantom Game Service 1. Duke Nukem Forever

  3. Re:Yay Wired by ferrisb312 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just click the Print view link to get it all on one page: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/1,70143-1.htm l

  4. Re:The real vaporware by dcapel · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ahem, there is a not after the but in the previous post :)

    --
    DYWYPI?
  5. HD-TiVo by ivan256 · · Score: 3, Informative

    From the article:(The cable-card) high-definition TiVo (was) announced at CES 2005, probably will be re-announced at CES 2006.

    Actually, it was announced at CES 2004 for release in the first half of 2006. It's not even late yet.

  6. Re:The real vaporware by Lisandro · · Score: 3, Informative

    You can have a desktop linux NOW. Fetch a modern commercial distro (http://www.ubuntu.com/>Ubuntu, Mandrake, etc) or any of the free ones and you'll have an excellent desktop with little issues, if any.

        The people that bitch about the "linux desktop" haven't normally ever tried Linux and want something that feels like their WinXP desktop. If you're looking for that, yes, there's nothing like it now and probably won't be for a while. If you want an useable Unix desktop, there's a lot of excellent ones arround.
        You have a wide choice of desktops and window and managers, and there's a lot of excellent software for them. A linux desktop is useable today, and by anyone - i had Ubuntu on a desktop for a while and my mother, who's 'computer-imparied' had zero issues using it. Besides being unable to find the blue E icon ;)

  7. Re:WINE by wolf369T · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, I think WINE is actually in the Beta now, starting from december...