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The Duke Is Finally Back, For Real

Posted by kdawson on from the better-be-good dept.

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.

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  1. Wrong... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Uh... no?

    The story is about Duke Nukem 3D for Xbox Live Arcade, NOT Duke Nukem Forever.

    Bad summary. Bad.

    1. Re:Wrong... by v1 · · Score: 1, Informative

      No they'll just add the "badsummary" and "wrongsummary" tags to it and be done with it, same as every other time.

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    2. Re:Wrong... by Sycraft-fu · · Score: 3, Informative

      Actually re-releases of older games on newer platforms are becoming more common. Game devs have started to note the flourishing emulation community and realized that people still like to play the old classics. Sometimes, they go out and use the emulators to do it. Sierra uses DOSBox to run their compilations on Windows. Also Nintendo has a SNES emulator (developed in house I think) on the Wii so you can buy favored SNES games and play them. So that isn't surprising.

      Also DNF is no joke, or at least if it is the joke's on 3Drealms. They have currently licensed not one, not two but three high end (at the time) 3D engines over the course of developing it. That is some seriously expensive shit. They've spent a lot of money working on it. Be it ineptitude or something else, they've sunk a lot of money in the project.

  2. Not DNF by Ack_OZ · · Score: 5, Informative

    This isn't a release of Duke Nukem Forever, just an updated Duke 3d for Xbox 360...

    (As I am sure many posts will correct)

  3. Duke 3d, not DNF by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    This story is about Duke Nukem 3D, not Duke Nukem Forever.

    *sigh*

  4. Re:Hell has frozen over by Jekler · · Score: 5, Informative

    No pigs have flown. The actual news is about Duke Nukem 3D being released for XBox Live Arcade. There is nothing about DNF.

  5. Re:No more vaporware awards... by AuMatar · · Score: 3, Informative

    THey tried that 2 or 3 years ago. It still won by a landslide the next year.

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  6. Re:Hell has frozen over by Barny · · Score: 3, Informative

    Nm, false start, apparently the editors can't tell a 10 year old game from a new one.

    Yes I burn karma, mode me up for it kthx.

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  7. If you believed this... by bistromath007 · · Score: 2, Informative

    You just got Dukerolled. :V

  8. Re:Tags by ari_j · · Score: 2, Informative

    Interestingly enough, one of those tags has been removed. I wonder who did that. Everyone, tag this article kdawsonsucksandisretarded for good measure.

  9. Re:Next week... by mdwh2 · · Score: 2, Informative

    An interesting article - though not just specific to Linux, I think all modern platforms have a lot in common with the Amiga (as for users, well, there are plenty of "smug" OS X users, and many such as myself moved onto Windows).

    Did I back the wrong choice by using the Amiga in the 80s/90s whilst others chose a DOS based single-tasking machine where "multimedia" was an optional add on? Yet here I am using machines with multitasking GUIs, fast graphics hardware via dedicated chips as standard. (Introductions to Windows 9x programming articles that were written in the 90s are rather amusing - they are obviously written for DOS users, having to hand-hold the reader through "new" concepts such as multitasking.)

    In an alternative world, it might have been another company that bought the Amiga trademark, bought the rights to NeXT, and used it to build a new platform (Amiga OS X?) Instead, it was produced by Apple, and branded a "Mac" - but who cares about being stuck to a particular brandname, I'd rather stick with what works in the way I know. And the experience of modern platforms is at least as close to the Amiga as it is to classic MacOS, and I'd say more so than it is to DOS.

  10. The second mistake in the original article by JSDopefish · · Score: 5, Informative

    A more minor error in the story is that my name is not Jon. It's Joe.

    -- Joe Siegler,
    Webmaster 3D Realms

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    Webmaster - 3D Realms & Black Sabbath Online
  11. Re:A sign... by boarder · · Score: 2, Informative

    A) 173945 is a low UID these days? Shit, I'm pissed I didn't sign up with my friend in the 14,000s... and he's pissed he didn't sign up before there were UIDs.

    B) You missed his joke. He is fully aware of the fact /. isn't a fact checked news source and was just pointing out that this retarded "story" is something that should surprise nobody.

    C) Screw you, Jogar the Barbarian (5830)... you are supposed to wait for a 5 digit to post before you as a 4 digit posts. Then someone with a 3 digit should post. That's how low UID epeen threads are supposed to go.

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  12. Re:MODS.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    vicâ(TM)try

    Seriously, why insist on using Unicode when (a) you know Slashdot doesn't support it and (b) the vertical tick ("'") is perfectly serviceable in this context?

    And furthermore, shouldn't that be vict'ry?

  13. Re:Hell has frozen over by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    <pedantic>
    After Dark was not a Microsoft product.
    </pedantic>