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The Duke Is Finally Back, For Real
After the first announcement on 1997-04-27 and over eleven years of fresh start after fresh start, Duke Nukem Forever finally comes to your system. At least if your system is an Xbox 360. Jon Siegler, the webmaster of 3D Realms, confirms this on their site: "As has been reported around the net today, we can confirm that the game has indeed passed final certification with Microsoft on Friday the 15th of August (on our first try, no less). That means the game is done — it is now in the hands of Microsoft." Update: 08/19 10:47 GMT by T : Several readers have written with a correction: this announcement is actually about Duke Nukem 3D, rather than Duke Nukem Forever.
It's possible people would read "Duke Nukem 3D" and assume it must be the "Forever" game, because that's the only Duke Nukem they're aware of.
I can't be the only one who still thinks of the original Duke Nukem when I see the name, and its primary shareware competitor--Commander Keen (one of id Software's first games).
I was very confused in college 12 years ago when I heard people talking about how awesome Duke Nukem is (to this day I've still never actually seen the 3d version) since it's a fairly cheesy platform side-scroller.
rage, rage against the dying of the light