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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 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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    I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
  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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    /me sighs
  7. 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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    Joe Siegler
    Webmaster - 3D Realms & Black Sabbath Online