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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. Hell has frozen over by amrik98 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Standby, I'm seeing pigs flying outside my window.

    1. Re:Hell has frozen over by Plantain · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's in Microsoft's hands now, so all I'm seeing are chairs...

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    2. 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.

    3. Re:Hell has frozen over by EdIII · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's NOT just you my friend.

      The moment I read it... I felt this enormous pain in my stomach. It got worse and worse to the point where I was heaving with my face on the keyboard. I felt my cheeks ripping apart and out came this little winged monkey. With a fez hat. He just handed me the game, gave me the thumbs up signal and flew out the window.

    4. Re:Hell has frozen over by 91degrees · · Score: 5, Funny

      The flying pigs are actually 10 year old pigs of a perfectly normal land based variety and a Slashdot editor getting mixed up with the avian pig and common pig.

    5. Re:Hell has frozen over by atari2600 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      An article of this magnitude (well it isn't but if it were true...) and the least the editor could've done is hover his mouse cursor over the link. Also this is old news (DN3D coming to XBLA).

    6. Re:Hell has frozen over by joleran · · Score: 5, Funny

      Considering the age of the game, perhaps toasters would be more appropriate.

    7. Re:Hell has frozen over by laejoh · · Score: 5, Funny

      You should have taken a picture and posted it on the net. It would have become an instant shock site classic!

      You could have called it monkeyse!

    8. Re:Hell has frozen over by martin-boundary · · Score: 5, Funny

      So he ripped your head off, but did he shit down your neck?

    9. Re:Hell has frozen over by bloobloo · · Score: 5, Funny

      Insightful?

      Seriously, mods?

    10. Re:Hell has frozen over by danieltdp · · Score: 5, Funny

      Being on microsoft hands, I expect to see some flying toasters too

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  2. I knew it by tyler.willard · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've always known that the Apocalypse would fall on a Tuesday.

    1. Re:I knew it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      "Dawn is in trouble? It must be tuesday."

    2. Re:I knew it by ShadowBlasko · · Score: 5, Funny

      I have a theory... It could be bunnies!

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  3. 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 fastest+fascist · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Bad to the point of me thinking the editors might as well just pull this entire posting. Except that'd be too easy on them, I guess. Seriously, though - RTFA, anyone?

    2. Re:Wrong... by sortius_nod · · Score: 5, Funny

      When noone else RTFA on /. why would the editors?

      Much love /.

  4. 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)

  5. Re:A sign... by tcdk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, /. editors not checking the actually story is not a sign of the Apocalypse.

    It's more on the scale of "a sign that /. is not a real news source".

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  6. Even the editor by Clarious · · Score: 5, Insightful

    doesn't RTFA

  7. Amazing by muffen · · Score: 5, Funny

    A Duke Nukem Forever article posted on slashdot, has this ever happened before ?

    Results 1 - 10 of about 852 from slashdot.org for duke nukem forever.

    Lets hope the game actually gets released before we have to read another 800+ articles about it ;)

  8. Re:A sign... by jolyonr · · Score: 5, Funny

    Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria... Duke Nukem Forever

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  9. Tags by VocationalZero · · Score: 5, Insightful

    fps, badsummary, wrongsummary, !dukenukemforever, kdawsonsucks (tagging beta)

    Best. Tags. Ever.

  10. I'm so screwed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    After I read the summary I called my boss at home and quit. I then drained our bank account and blew it all on hookers and booze. Now you tell me it was false alarm????? When my wife wakes up what she'll do will make the Apocalypse look like a trip to Disneyland. Note to editors, please fact check articles before posting summaries.

    1. Re:I'm so screwed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      After I read the summary I went and bought a Mac Pro, so you're relatively better off.

    2. Re:I'm so screwed by niceone · · Score: 5, Funny

      Or, note to readers: never act on anything you read on Slashdot, the defence 'I was temporarily under the influence of Slashdot' has not yet been tested in court.

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    3. Re:I'm so screwed by Mad_Rain · · Score: 5, Funny

      Note to editors, please fact check articles before posting summaries.

      Now that would be a sure sign of the Apocalypse.

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    4. Re:I'm so screwed by randyest · · Score: 5, Funny

      (1) You missed the joke, (2) it's "loser", and (3) it's "bored." I usually wouldn't bother, but your post has so much compressed failure that it's rather remarkable. I'm still reeling from the time-travel implied by "Then now what."

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  11. Heaven by 10Neon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why did you do that in the first place? if the End is coming, certainly it means you're just hours away from stripper factories and beer volcanoes.

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  12. Re:Could SOMEONE PLEASE EDIT... by Spatial · · Score: 5, Funny

    It should be edited to say, "Kdawson is Finally Back, For Real." Gaze upon him ye fact-based, and despair.

  13. 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
  14. Re:Yep by JSDopefish · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Think what you wish.

    One of the primary reasons this was done was an exercise for our programmers on 360 coding, how to interface with Live, etc, etc, etc. This was done on a "smaller" project so that kinks and issues can be worked out for the larger project (DNF).

    If you want to chicken little the world, go ahead. Doesn't make it right. :)

    Joe Siegler
    Webmaster - 3D Realms

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  15. Re:Yep by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    At this point the burden of proof is on YOU, my friend. We're not the ones with a decade of bullshit promises that we've never delivered on.

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  16. Re:Yep by Reverend528 · · Score: 5, Funny

    We're not the ones with a decade of bullshit promises that we've never delivered on.

    You're thinking of Will Wright. The DNF team has been making promises for more than a decade.

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