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.

Comments

Re:RIP DNF

[vegiVamp]

Had I modpoints, you'd get some.

Finally someone makes an actual tech joke, and whaddayanow, no-one gets it.

Oh well, have a cookie :-)

Re:About time

[cyber-vandal]

That came about because capitalist lack of oversight led to the formation of huge corporations that if they go bust will devastate large sections of the workforce. Either you pay to keep these companies afloat with the promise of eventual repayments of the costs when the economy picks up or else you pay the welfare of all the people put out of work.

Re:God uses Linux, Linux implies !C64

[jeffasselin]

God uses $HARDWARE:

1. Mac: 34M
2. PC: 3.8M
3. Atari: 122k
4. Smartphone: 109k
5. C64: 88k
6. Amiga: 54k

Clearly, God uses a Mac running Linux

Re:About time

[radtea]

Unfortunately, badly managed companies go bankrupt.

Unless they are investment banks, insurance companies or auto companies with their hands so far up Washington's bipartisan butt that they can get the sock-puppets to rape the taxpayer for them.

This is the face of National Socialism, as created by Bush and continued by Obama: some companies in some industries are deemed to be too important to the Reich to fail, and markets are trampled for the sake of keeping them alive.

Meanwhile, companies that are just as badly run in other industries are allowed to die off. That provides a huge incentive to every company in the country to suck up to the government as closely as possible. It's a ticket to virtual immortality.

3DRealms should have claimed it was vital for national security that DNF be released. It probably wouldn't have worked, but who would have thought that anyone would have even considered bailing out newspapers, even theoretically?