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Duke Nukem Forever Back In Development
An anonymous reader writes "'Always bet on Duke.' It seems he was right about himself, at least. The longest, most storied in-development game in history seems like it's finally going to be released by Gearbox Software sometime within the next year. 'According to Pitchford, Gearbox began finishing Duke Nukem Forever in late 2009. "Clearly the game hadn't been finished at 3D Realms but a lot of content had been created," he says. "The approach and investment and process at 3D Realms didn't quite make it, and it cracked at the end. With Gearbox Software we brought all those pieces together. It's the game it was meant to be." The game is currently expected to ship in 2010 although given its history Pitchford is understandably reluctant to be more specific.'"
If by stole you mean "used their contractual rights to get the game finished, since 3D Realms didn't," then yeah.
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I don't know, man - it looks legit (finally). Check out all the coverage from PAX on the Kotaku home page: http://kotaku.com/
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I remember all of the dumb little hacks I had to do to get Borderlands working as a proper PC games. Even then, the interface and menus still suffered from console-itis.
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3d Realms is taking it badly -- they forcibly closed all forums related to Duke Nukem, even the older ones. It looks like Take 2 stole their IP.
You should probably actually visit their forum before posting misinformation. What has actually happened is that the main forum moderator, Joe Siegler, has been hired by Gearbox to handle their Duke Nukem community. As such they have moved Duke Nukem related forums over to the new Gearbox forum.
See his posts here and here for confirmation.
Whether they now own the Duke Nukem IP is unknown as no announcements have been made one way or the other.
"Hold! What you are doing to us is wrong! Why do you do this thing?"
I just died a little inside...
Dude, we're old now.
In the USA, you port game; in Soviet Russia, game deports you!
Give it a shot. They need the revenue after what EA did to them.
Uh what? ``"Out of respect to those we serve, we will not be stocking this game," said the Army & Air Force Exchange Service's Commander Maj. Gen. Bruce Casella.'' This has nothing to do with EA or Gamestop except as a setting. Unless you had some other citation that proved something other than the opposite of what you intended...
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"