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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.'"
Stay tuned and see if things get frosty.
The legend continues!
Generic console FPS game with some punchy one liners. Snooore!
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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This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
"Duke Nukem Forever in Development"
... for my grandchildren.
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So, is this going to be released for the N64 or PS1?
What did those ancient Mayans know?
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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.
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!"
Anyone who loves or hates any language, platform, or manufacturer, doesn't know what they're talking about.
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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You know, if they could make the actual release date on April 1st it would be rather funny. NOBODY would believe the press releases :-)
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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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...
I wonder if GameStop will honor my DNF preorder ticket I got when the location was a Funcoland 12 years ago.
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
This *was* the First Post, but the release date slipped...
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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?
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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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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Better make that 2012, they're having some problems migrating from the Knockknock engine to the Insovietrussia engine.
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So will that guy with the oldest preorder receipt for DNF actually get GameStop to honor it?
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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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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These guys are environmentalists... they're trying to counteract global warming by making hell freeze over.
Collector's Edition
DNF available now on Phantom consoles.
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Can't say I blame them. Every time you port something to the Insovietrussia engine, it ports it right back to you.
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?"
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.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. - Terry Pratchett
I can imagine the scene:
Boss- "Reimplement this usign XYZ"
Programmer- "Uh, OK, but we need to redo the strippers motion capture for that"