Duke Nukem Forever - Always bet on duok

[Blabj]

Duke Nukem developer goes bust

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Veteran games developer 3D Realms has closed down because of a lack of funds.

Founded in 1987, the firm popularised the concept of shareware gaming and produced the seminal Duke Nukem and Wolfenstein 3D first-person shooters.

The company was working on a follow-up title, Duke Nukem Forever, which after being in development for 12 years has become the object of industry derision.

Publisher Take-Two says it will no longer fund development of the game but retains rights to the title.

"We can confirm that our relationship with 3D Realms for Duke Nukem Forever was a publishing arrangement, which did not include ongoing funds for development of the title," said Take-Two's Alan Lewis in a statement.

There has been no official comment from 3D Realms, other than a forum posting from the company's webmaster, Joe Siegler, who said: "It's not a marketing thing. It's true. I have nothing further to say at this time."

Other companies with links to 3D Realms or the Duke Nukem series were quick to distance themselves.

In a posting on Twitter, Apogee Software said it was "officially not affected by the situation at 3DRealms".

"Development of the Duke Nukem Trilogy is continuing as planned and further announcements about upcoming games will be made in the near future," the statement added.

Guardian newspaper games writer Steve Boxer said it was astonishing 3D Realms had not finished the game after more than a decade of development.

"It would have been nice to see another Duke Nukem game, but given they had more than 12 years it's just incompetence of the highest order.

"3D Realms made some great games in the past, but they got overtaken by the 21st Century.

"Sadly, Duke Nukem Forever was the most aptly named title in the history of games. Now, it's just Duke Nukem Never."

BBC NEWS | Technology | Duke Nukem developer goes bust

I guess all the people who joked about it never being released were right all along! The world will never know the sequel that was Duke Nukem Forever...

[hagun]

C'mon, 12 years in the making of an FPS? Were they trying to invent time travel while at it?

[Fallyn]

LOL

[Elcura]

I totally didn't see this coming.

[Okan]

Now it really is.... Forever.

[Meian]

No idea but this topic was in general for some reason...

But yea, terrible thing to happen... waited so long for M3 which DID come out eventually so I had hoped the same for Duke Nukem... the glory days of playing on MS-DOS and win 95 included these games many many times I suppose will be the memory remaining :\

3D Realms forum is overloaded right now lol it reminded me of the salvage bannings here

[Gulkeeva]

Well supposedly.. it can "still" come out.. because another company owns the title or something. That will be... "forever" on the minds of people haha

I was looking forward to playing it too, that game series was awesome ;/

[Meian]

I don't understand why'd they want to keep the rights and seemingly not continue funding. They don't want it released? >>

[Maxxthepenguin]

Take-Two better keep the dream alive or there will be hell to pay. We can't have a gaming world without a DNF to dream about.

[The Blackrose]

Now it really is.... Forever.

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HH!

[zoobernut]

I don't understand why'd they want to keep the rights and seemingly not continue funding. They don't want it released? >>

It is not that they don't want it released, they just don't want a 12 year old version to be released. Such a waste to develop an fps for 12 years....

[Guitarman]

Sucks. I loved the duke games.

[levish]

terrible to happen but wtf were they expecting? what kind of investor in their right minds would pump money into a company that hasn't delivered a product in over 10 years

[Mizango]

terrible to happen but wtf were they expecting? what kind of investor in their right minds would pump money into a company that hasn't delivered a product in over 10 years

Exactly. Sucks though because I was one of the people hoping that one day....

[Abandon]

R.I.P., Duke.

[Grey Jorildyn]

Sad

[Correction]

Times like this I wish the gaming media had the balls to actually go digging into the dirty bits that precipitated this inevitable burnout by 3d realms. Yes everyone knew it was a joke and yes we were pretty sure for at least 8 or so years now that DNF was going to disappoint, but where's the Enron-style expose that shows the trainwreck over time? Where are the 'smartest people in the room' style reports that shames those idiots steering the ship towards disaster?

Where's my postmortem?

[zoobernut]

Related pic. If you cannot read it, the date on it is 2001.

[BRP]

There is a story going around that someone involved was threatened by chair-leg-point to keep this whole scam as a secret. Cliffy B was one of the dudes to hold him on the ground. Sounds like delicious bullshit.

EDIT:

http://gamingisstupid.com/2009/05/06...story-revival/

[Brill Weave]

Who the fuck cares. 3DR stopped being relevant about fifteen years ago. Good riddance to bad rubbish.