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Duke Nukem Forever Update

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the heh dept.

Gamasutra reports on an update to one of the longest running jokes in the games industry, Duke Nukem Forever. The title, already ten years in development, may (possibly) see release this decade. From the blurb: "3DR's George Broussard also demonstrated world interactivity that includes Duke standing in front of a computer and emailing the player, if he provides his email address for the game. But, according to the piece, Broussard was bashful, overall, about showing off the game, commenting: 'The problem is that when we show it, people are going to be like, Yeah, whatever. Honestly, at this point we just want to finish it.'"

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  1. Re:Preorder? by u-235-sentinel · · Score: 2, Informative

    This sounds great...where can I preorder it?

    I noticed it's available for download at http://freshmeat.net/projects/dukeforever/ and it's being written in Perl. I knew Perl was powerful but now I'm really impressed :-)

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  2. Release date: September 29, 2006 by Mathiasdm · · Score: 2, Informative

    If one can believe Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/stores/deta il/-/videogames/B00005NCEZ/pictures/ref%3Ddp_pics_ smp/202-8135606-0966225

    It even has screenshots...

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    1. Re:Release date: September 29, 2006 by Mathiasdm · · Score: 2, Informative

      Thou art correct...

      Sorry about the ugly link, but slashdot doesn't seem to like me putting it in ...

      http://web.archive.org/web/20050224222429/http://w ww.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/vid eogames/B00005NCEZ/pictures

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  3. Re:What Went Wrong? by Bogtha · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yeah, but think of where Linux would be if Linus was still working on it alone at home because it didnt quite have all of the features that he wanted.

    We know exactly where it would be, because another open-source kernel project has succumbed to this.

    The GNU kernel was originally meant to be based on Trix, but then it was decided that it was too much work to port to other architectures, so work began afresh on the HURD, based on the Mach microkernel. After a while, it was decided that Mach wasn't good enough, so work began again on a revision of the HURD, this time based on the L4 microkernel. These days, there's talk about abandoning that work too, in favour of something based on Coyotos.

    Meanwhile, after sixteen years, GNU still don't have their own production-ready operating system kernel, but more pragmatic people have brought us Linux.

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