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Duke Nukem Forever Due This Year?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the an-end-in-sight dept.

nz17 writes "Under the original deal, 3D Realms was to receive some $6 million from Take-Two to develop the title. Now the Texas-based developer will receive only $4,250 for the oft-delayed game when it is completed. Just the same, 3D Realms has a fairly large incentive to get Duke Nukem Forever done by the end of the year; Take-Two has offered the studio $500,000 in the form of a promissory note if the game sees commercial release by December 31, 2006."

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  1. Who saw that pig go by? by Red+Samurai · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sorry folks, this is over 2 months late.

    1. Re:Who saw that pig go by? by Jugalator · · Score: 5, Funny

      Flying pig?

      By now it's a flying Bill Gates as a super hero praising open source and destroying proprietary software companies with fricking lasers from his head.

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  2. Windows Vista by fph+il+quozientatore · · Score: 5, Funny

    So you /do/ confirm that DNF will ship before Windows Vista?

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  3. Basically by Umbral+Blot · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There are basically three positions you can have with respect to Duke Nukem
    1: It will never be released, in which case no, not this year.
    2: It is honestly being worked on, in which case maybe.
    3: It's about to be done, any day now, in which case yes.
    Obviously these positions are rather broad, and one might even say baseless, but that is just the point. We don't have any way to distinguish between them, we can only guess. All we know is that they keep saying that they are working on it and making progress, but honestly that is compatible with all three positions. Personally I hope Duke Nukem will never come out, for if it does I will have to re-write all my vaporware jokes.

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  4. I Believe It by Enderandrew · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Prey went from vaporware to a title that people loved at E3. It is actually going to ship. 3DRealms has to make money to stick around.

    DNF will ship. Who knows how good it will be, or what condition it will be in. They can make money after the fact with expansions.

    The only thing that surprises me is that 3DRealms is making any money at all after how they have handled this. If I was the publisher, I would have canceled the project and taken it to another development house long ago.

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    1. Re:I Believe It by Jim+Hall · · Score: 5, Funny

      DNF will ship. Who knows how good it will be, or what condition it will be in. They can make money after the fact with expansions.

      But will you have the system to handle DNF? I have a pre-market copy of the DNF box right here ... let's see .... MS-DOS 6.22 (Windows 3.11 users will need to exit to DOS), 32MB XMS memory (HIMEM), 100MB free space on hard drive.

  5. $4250 ? by GroeFaZ · · Score: 5, Funny

    $1 for each day of development?

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    1. Re:$4250 ? by Dance_Dance_Karnov · · Score: 5, Informative

      ~11.6 years...sounds about right.

  6. The funniest response to this article EVER by jacobw · · Score: 5, Funny

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    1. Re:The funniest response to this article EVER by jacobw · · Score: 5, Funny

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    2. Re:The funniest response to this article EVER by jacobw · · Score: 5, Funny

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    3. Re:The funniest response to this article EVER by jacobw · · Score: 5, Funny

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    4. Re:The funniest response to this article EVER by jacobw · · Score: 5, Funny

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    5. Re:The funniest response to this article EVER by jacobw · · Score: 5, Funny

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  7. More than $4,250 by NsinR8R · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's more than just $4,250: on the 10-Q, all dollar figures (with the exception of per-share amounts) are listed in thousands. Quoting the financial statement notes, the "In March 2005, the Company renegotiated a $6,000 contingent obligation due upon delivery of the final PC version of Duke Nukem Forever through the payment of $4,250 and issuance of a promissory note in the principal amount of $500." That would actually, then, be four-and-a-quarter million dollars rather than a paltry 4K.

  8. Re:Good Idea? by jamesh · · Score: 5, Funny

    C:\> dnf.exe

    Welcome to Duke Nukem Forever! Would you like instructions?

    You are standing at the end of a road before a small brick building. Around you is a forest. A small stream flows out of the building and down a gully to the south.

    > _


    I'll have my $500,000 now thankyou.

  9. Re:Stop holding your breath, it won't be worth it by ichigo+2.0 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What are you talking about? Gameplay (sadly) hasn't changed a bit in 5 years!

  10. the truth is in the punctuation by elmarkitse · · Score: 5, Funny

    Duke Nukem, Forever Due 'This Year'...

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