Duke Nukem Forever Back In Development

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Duke Nukem Forever Back In Development

Posted by Soulskill on Friday September 3, 2010 @05:38AM from the yeah-this-again dept.

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.'"

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HAHAHA! by morari · 2010-09-03 05:40 · Score: 2, Insightful

The Duke Nukem cycle continues. Just wait until "2011" slips into "2013" and so forth...

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1. Re:HAHAHA! by twistedsymphony · 2010-09-03 06:52 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  These guys are environmentalists... they're trying to counteract global warming by making hell freeze over.
  
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2. Re:HAHAHA! by mqduck · 2010-09-03 07:15 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  I'm glad to see that DNF is back. Part of me, however, kind of hopes the release date keeps on slipping. It just seems like things aren't really right in the world unless Duke Nukem Forever is still "in development".
  
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3. Re:HAHAHA! by mangu · 2010-09-03 09:04 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  They were told to re-implement the same thing every time there was even a slight advancement in tech, because the managers wanted to be bleeding edge.
  I can imagine the scene:
  Boss- "Reimplement this usign XYZ"
  Programmer- "Uh, OK, but we need to redo the strippers motion capture for that"
In other Hell News a cold front may be moving in.. by meerling · 2010-09-03 05:40 · Score: 5, Funny

Stay tuned and see if things get frosty.
Vaporware by guspasho · 2010-09-03 05:40 · Score: 3, Funny

The legend continues!
1. Re:Vaporware by WilliamGeorge · 2010-09-03 05:57 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  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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Even the meme is dead by avandesande · 2010-09-03 05:40 · Score: 2, Interesting

Haven't seen any Duke Nukem jokes on /. in a while.

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1. Re:Even the meme is dead by Abstrackt · 2010-09-03 05:52 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Haven't seen any Duke Nukem jokes on /. in a while.
  We're still working on them. Expect some in 2011.
  
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2. Re:Even the meme is dead by Adriax · 2010-09-03 06:04 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Better make that 2012, they're having some problems migrating from the Knockknock engine to the Insovietrussia engine.
  
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3. Re:Even the meme is dead by Hognoxious · 2010-09-03 06:52 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Netcraft is down. They're porting their servers to Hurd.
  It's putting a big load on the hardware, but they've drilled pipes down so they can use hell as a heat sink.
  
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4. Re:Even the meme is dead by drej · 2010-09-03 07:04 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Can't say I blame them. Every time you port something to the Insovietrussia engine, it ports it right back to you.
5. Re:Even the meme is dead by IICV · 2010-09-03 08:56 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  In the USA, you port game; in Soviet Russia, game deports you!
Too Late by Reapy · 2010-09-03 05:40 · Score: 3, Insightful

Generic console FPS game with some punchy one liners. Snooore!
1. Re:Too Late by morari · 2010-09-03 06:11 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  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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2. Re:Too Late by Khyber · 2010-09-03 07:44 · Score: 2, Interesting
  
  "I remember all of the dumb little hacks I had to do to get Borderlands working as a proper PC games."
  And which hacks were those? I haven't had ONE single issue running Borderlands on my HP laptop, not since release date.
  Let me guess, you got a crappy sound card the U3 engine didn't like and you had to drop all the way down to basic sound acceleration?
  
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It's not april 1st by thewise1 · 2010-09-03 05:41 · Score: 2, Insightful

But I'm still not going to hold my breath
1. Re:It's not april 1st by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-03 05:50 · Score: 5, Interesting
  
  You know, if they could make the actual release date on April 1st it would be rather funny. NOBODY would believe the press releases :-)
2. Re:It's not april 1st by Abstrackt · 2010-09-03 07:18 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  You know, if they could make the actual release date on April 1st it would be rather funny. NOBODY would believe the press releases :-)
  At this point, they could pick literally any other day of the year and nobody would believe the press release.
  
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If you believe... by sneaker98 · 2010-09-03 05:42 · Score: 2, Interesting

If you'll believe this, than I've got a bridge I think you might be interested in!
1. Re:If you believe... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-03 05:51 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  please forward specifications of said bridge
  -prince hommardadarmajar
my prediction by jollyreaper · 2010-09-03 05:42 · Score: 3, Interesting

In another five years someone will buy the naming rights to Duke and release a flash browser game as "Duke Nukem Forever" as a gag. "See, it finally came out."

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If they dropped the word Back by jfinke · 2010-09-03 05:42 · Score: 5, Funny

From the article title, it would be much closer to reality...
"Duke Nukem Forever in Development"
1. Re:If they dropped the word Back by Zumbs · 2010-09-03 05:46 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Or ... Duke Nukem Fornever!
  
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3d Realms Forums by emkyooess · 2010-09-03 05:43 · Score: 2, Interesting

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.
1. Re:3d Realms Forums by VGPowerlord · 2010-09-03 05:50 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  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.
  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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2. Re:3d Realms Forums by Miltazar · 2010-09-03 07:14 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  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.
  
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3. Re:3d Realms Forums by dangitman · 2010-09-03 11:48 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  There's a Duke Nukem community??? Are these forums hosted on an OS/2 Warp server? *Head assplodes*
  
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This is GREAT news ... by ackthpt · 2010-09-03 05:43 · Score: 5, Funny

... for my grandchildren.

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In Other News... by zepo1a · 2010-09-03 05:44 · Score: 2, Funny

Pigs seen flying and record cold temperatures in Hell. :)
Which System? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-03 05:44 · Score: 5, Funny

So, is this going to be released for the N64 or PS1?
2012 perhaps???? by OzPeter · 2010-09-03 05:44 · Score: 4, Funny

What did those ancient Mayans know?

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Gearbox? Hell yes! by Aaul · 2010-09-03 05:45 · Score: 5, Insightful

After being thoroughly satisfied with Borderlands (and I still play it regularly, can't wait for the expansion this month!) I think Gearbox is the best developer to finish up DNF. BL has lots of similar humor and is probably in my list of top 5 favorite games of at least the last 5 years.
Having said that.. I'm still going to wait until it's been out for a few days or weeks before buying, to see if it's worth it. I don't doubt Gearbox's talent but I do think DNF has enough negative "vibe" around it that there is a chance it won't live up to how fun the original was. And that's really the ultimate metric in my opinion...is the game fun? Nothing else really matters.
1. Re:Gearbox? Hell yes! by olau · 2010-09-03 08:18 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  And that's really the ultimate metric in my opinion...is the game fun? Nothing else really matters.
  That's technically not true. You also still need to be alive.
Like Iridium by jjohnson · 2010-09-03 05:49 · Score: 5, Insightful

It cost 6 billion to put a network of satellites in orbit for a satphone network that cost $4 a minute--absolutely unsustainable business model. Picked up for $25 million after bankruptcy, it's now a thriving business since the huge sunk costs were discharged to the investors.
No surprise at all that a company would take 3D Realms assets, slap them all together and box them up. The launch campaign writes itself: "HOLY SHIT IT'S FINALLY HERE!"

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Yeah, right. by Millennium · 2010-09-03 05:52 · Score: 3, Funny

Just you watch; the way this thing's going, it'll released just in time to put it in a bundle with Duke Nukem Forever.
Oh, wait...
GameStop Preorder ticket by RyuuzakiTetsuya · 2010-09-03 05:53 · Score: 5, Interesting

I wonder if GameStop will honor my DNF preorder ticket I got when the location was a Funcoland 12 years ago.

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1. Re:GameStop Preorder ticket by drinkypoo · 2010-09-03 10:18 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  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...
  
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Slipped by Frosty+Piss · 2010-09-03 05:54 · Score: 4, Funny

This *was* the First Post, but the release date slipped...

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What is this game? maybe I am too young? by fantomas · 2010-09-03 05:55 · Score: 3, Interesting

As far as I can work out, this is a follow on from a game previously released 14 years ago? is this correct? So who will care about its release apart from some very old-skool gamers? I guess it's just a kind of in-joke for old slashdot fans these days?
1. Re:What is this game? maybe I am too young? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-03 06:05 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  I just died a little inside...
2. Re:What is this game? maybe I am too young? by Yvan256 · 2010-09-03 06:12 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  Is Starcraft II a joke to you? What about Diablo III?
3. Re:What is this game? maybe I am too young? by ACS+Solver · 2010-09-03 06:20 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  Yes, DNF is part of the Duke Nukem series, and Duke Nukem 3D was released 14 years ago. There's also the 2002 Manhattan Project but it's not really the same genre. If the game is good, being a sequel to an old game won't hurt it. Fallout 3 looks to be a good example. Released in 2008 to much acclaim from critics and players but it was a sequel, the first two Fallouts came out in 1997 and 1998. So technologically, it's a huge jump and I bet Fallout 3 had plenty of younger players who never played the first two parts. Which didn't hurt the perception of Fallout 3 any.
  Likewise, DNF would not be hurt directly by being a sequel in the Duke Nukem series. It will do just fine if it's ever released and is a good game. Although if it really is released within the next year, I wouldn't expect the game to be much good - the development history seems too screwed up to produce a good end result.
4. Re:What is this game? maybe I am too young? by shadowkil · 2010-09-03 07:54 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  I just died a little inside...
  Dude, we're old now.
5. Re:What is this game? maybe I am too young? by ceraphis · 2010-09-03 19:13 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  Likewise, DNF would not be hurt directly by being a sequel in the Duke Nukem series. It will do just fine if it's ever released and is a good game. Although if it really is released within the next year, I wouldn't expect the game to be much good - the development history seems too screwed up to produce a good end result.
  Disagree. They could probably make a pretty decent game using whatever assets the game already has, engine and textures, models etc, but spend the remaining time left doing voices story and level design. Throw in a pretty good multiplayer mode and you have a solid game. I know it may not be feasible if the assets are too "last-gen", but I assume they at least wont follow what I keep hearing was the cause of the long dev time to begin with: the over-arching ridiculous desire to be as bleeding edge as possible. If I recall, the teaser trailer that came out within the last year or so didn't look so bad (can't remember if it had gameplay or only cgi), certainly not bad enough to require new tech.
it worked for Batman by rev_sanchez · 2010-09-03 05:55 · Score: 4, Funny

I say they do a reboot and start off with Duke Begins and then follow up with a bad ass sequel called The Duke Knight.

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Re:Oblig. by hedwards · 2010-09-03 05:56 · Score: 2, Interesting

Honestly, I'll be buying a copy, if for no other reason than it's bound to be a train wreck. That and I'm really curious what 12 or so years of development actually gets. From what I've heard they've been close to releasing it a few times, but couldn't get over the perfectionist need to be as revolutionary as the previous game was.
makes sense by phantomfive · 2010-09-03 05:57 · Score: 3, Insightful

It makes sense, Duke Nuke'em has such massive name recognition, as long as it's not a completely sucky game it's guaranteed to sell decently. Financially speaking, it makes sense for someone to buy it up and put a bit of effort in to get it out the door. I'm surprised EA didn't do it.

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1. Re:makes sense by josath · 2010-09-03 07:15 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Duke Nuke'em has such massive name recognition
  Apparently it doesn't have enough name recognition for you to get it right...
  
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2. Re:makes sense by BaronHethorSamedi · 2010-09-03 08:08 · Score: 2, Interesting
  
  Does Duke Nukem still have "massive name recognition?" I vaguely remember playing DN3d when I was in high school. It was a somewhat interesting FPS, based on some fun little 2d platforming games (which I'm sure most people have forgotten by now, and few people under 30 have ever even played). It was mildly transgressive for its inclusion of pixelated strippers, and had a few fun mechanics (remote trigger pipe bombs?), but otherwise wasn't terribly unique even for its time. Since then, we've seen a glut of much prettier shooting games, with much more refined play in both single and multiplayer. These days, Duke Nukem is a chuckle-inducing byword; what name recognition it has comes from the internet memes mocking its perpetual vaporware status. If it ever is released, I can't imagine buying it, even for its kitsch value.
Hope you held on to your preorder receipts! by Lunix+Nutcase · 2010-09-03 06:05 · Score: 4, Interesting

So will that guy with the oldest preorder receipt for DNF actually get GameStop to honor it?
Bad news everyone! by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-03 06:11 · Score: 2, Funny

It's going to be another Windows-only game!
is it by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-03 06:14 · Score: 2, Funny

Wait, was that a car analogy?
Re:Bound to get frosty by dgatwood · 2010-09-03 06:42 · Score: 4, Funny

Aaack! Does that mean that soon I'll have to do all those things I said I would do when DNF shipped!?!
*runs away in terror*

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Available now... by WED+Fan · 2010-09-03 06:53 · Score: 3, Funny

DNF available now on Phantom consoles.

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