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Duke Nukem For Never
PLSQL Guy writes "Duke Nukem Forever developer 3D Realms is shutting down, according to Shacknews. They cite 'a reliable source close to the company,' who said the developer is finished and employees have already been let go. It looks like all of the Duke Nukem Forever jokes are turning into reality; DNF might turn out to be the ultimate vaporware after all."
3D Realms' webmaster, Joe Siegler, confirmed the closing, saying that he didn't know about it even a day beforehand. Apogee and Deep Silver, who are working on a different set of Duke Nukem games (referred to as the Duke Nukem Trilogy) say they are not affected by the problems at 3D Realms.
Sounds like they are all outta gum
Will they be shutting down the coming next 10 years?
SCNR...it is bad for the devs at 3d, but still...it opens a whole new series of jokes.
scheuri
yeah, well you can go to hell. Thank God Duke Nukem Forever was never released. If they had "competent managers" as you call them, we probably would have had a laughable pile of shit for an FPS released under the title that will forever have soiled Duke's reputation, which I foresee happening under Take-Two.
There've been calls to open-source the game.
Why ? There is already better open source vaporware - Hurd. Though I must admit that DNF has a much cooler mascot with Duke.
Perhaps Duke can become the mascot of Hurd now ?
He is free... for other vaporware.
Old answer: "When it's done."
New answer: "No, we are done."
"Die endgueltige Teilung Deutschlands - das ist unser Auftrag." - Chlodwig Poth
This is like the vatican coming out and saying "Shows over people, no second coming. Sorry, pack it up and go home."
What ridiculous mythical everpresent promise are we going to look forward to now?
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
hail to the king baby
...
I guess the Hurd has a chance to beat Duke Nukem Forever to 1.0, after all! Who woulda thunk it?
we aint even on the same plane here man. Duke Nukem isn't something to trifle with, if you're putting out THE Duke title of all time, you gotta do it right, and if that means scrapping everything multiple times over a span of time larger than a decade, you do it. Some things are more important than time and money, Duke Nukem is one of these things.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm going to repent all of my sins and start frequenting a church, hopefully when I die, Duke Nukem Forever will be waiting for me on God's Commodore 64.
I always thought Guns 'n' Roses was DNF's main competition in the Vaporware Wars Of 1994-2009. :)
I honestly never thought Axl would ship his album first for the win, but, here we are.
Guinness World Records reports that the long-standing record for constant masturbation previously held by Gooey, a chimpanzee at the Buffalo Zoo, in what was thought to be an unbreakable grip, was "overcome in one magnificent stroke" by the DNF team at 3D Realms.
The sheer magnificence of the accomplishment has moved a Guinness spokesman to suggest that DNF has actually outgrown the term "vapourware", and become something else entirely. He suggests a new definition, "spankerware", be coined to cummemorate this astounding, 12-year feat of dong-flogging. "If this were an anniversary, the appropriate gift would be linen...and lots of it", the spokesman said.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
I'm here to kick ass and fund development!
And I'm all out of funds.
Hello, I am Fox News. I want to hire you to write some more funny news titles for me. When would you like to start?
The Sticky Issue - My TF2 Blog
What a shocker. Not.
Apparently, you retained some of your witticisms from when you were 15, as well. That's da bomb!!
Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.
to write code and chew bubble gum; and I'm all out of gum...
This has got me all nostalgic, so I loaded up Duke Nukem 3D to pay my last respects. But when I try to run it, I keep getting this message:
SecureROM Activation Failed: Could not connect to the 3drealms activation server.
What does it mean??
Take off every Sig. For great justice.
With such an acronym as the abbreviated name of the game, who could have expected anything less, to be honest? Maybe it was just a practical joke all along!
Yeah, I mean, I read "DNF" and I'm like Disjunctive Normal Form ? Ha, what kind of name is that !
*chuckles*
aha... okay, stop staring at me, guys ?
I would like to reiterate http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1220783&cid=27813603
The vapor that I long for most
The Duke, the Wolf*,
And the Starcraft: Ghost
They saw their code build
So they'd boast
The day
Their sche-----dule died.
And Duke was saying:
(Chorus)
bye, bye
Eat some shit and then die
... apparently, writing code isn't as easy as (American) Pie :)
I take it the developers have plenty of gum.
"Install the Hurd NOW, or I'm gonna rip off your head and shit down your throat."
I thought it was "Do Not Fold" - which is normally stamped on packages containing CDs or other fragile media, and indeed, it seems that DNF are folding :)
"Did not Finish" makes much more sense though.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for being subtle.
GPL v. 2 isn't bad, just outdated.
As opposed to GPL v. 3, which isn't good, just new.
The FSF will take over the project, call it Duke Gnukem Forever, and make it the killer app for Hurd.
God tried Linux, but couldn't find the drivers for his wireless. He keeps trying, but I don't think he has a prayer.
rewriting history since 2109
Besides Bloussard in his blog mentioned that the check list of undone/buggy stuff for DNF has/had only 24 objectives left.
23. ?????
24. PROFIT!
I thought it was Did Not Finish...
Oddly it makes sense...
DNF DNF. Did Not Finish Duke Nukem Forever...
DNF Squared I guess.
Crap normally means deification
I have no humorous quip to add do this, but it stands on its own =)
Your brain is not a computer.
Duke Nuken Forever
1997 - 2009
tl;dnf
So while Crap normally means deification it has been expanded to anything so worthless that it needs to be disposed of as soon as possible.
Crap means "deification" to you? Man, you've got a weird theology. Are the 2 Girls and One Cup considered holy artifacts?
(-1, Raw and Uncut is the only way to read)