3D Relms have finally pulled the plug on Duke Nuke'Em Forever. It's no longer vaporware, it's offically cancelled.
Duke Nukem No More - Digits - WSJ
LOL! ANd about time too.
I still remember the time back in 2003-ish when there was a some Duke Nuke'Em Forever billboards at a train station.
And looks like it's R.I.P for 3D Realms too. For those people where looking forward to PREY 2, that been moved over to Radar Group for development. Hopefully they can do a some thing quicker than 11 years to release a game.
Duke Nukem No More - Digits - WSJ
Duke Nukem No More
Games developer 3D Realms, which has been developing the same videogame for the past 12 years, has shuttered its doors before its completion.
The Garland, Texas, company had been working on the much-anticipated game Duke Nukem Forever, the latest installment of the Duke Nukem first-person-shooter game series, which promised to be groundbreaking in interactivity and game play. The last Duke Nukem game, Duke Nukem 3D, was released in 1996.
3D Realms didn't officially announce its closing, and its Web site appears to have been taken down. The news about 3D Realms' closing was earlier reported in gaming site Shacknews, citing a source that said there were “funding issues.â€
A person who picked up the phone at 3D Realms said the staff was notified yesterday of the closure. This person, who declined to give his name, said he wasn't sure what his last day was, with no one in the office. Steve Blackburn, vice president of operations, didn't return phone calls seeking comment.
Take-Two Interactive Software, which owns the publishing rights to the Duke Nukem game, said it hadn't been notified by 3D Realms about the closing and declined to comment on the speculation.
“We can confirm that our relationship with 3D Realms for Duke Nukem Forever was a publishing arrangement, which didn't include ongoing funds for development of the title,†said Alan Lewis, a spokesman for Take-Two. He added that Take-Two would retain the rights to publish the game if development of it was revived in the future.
Meanwhile, one blogger created a site in memoriam of the game with a tombstone saying “RIP Duke Nukem Forever.†To illustrate how long the game had been in development, the site includes a long list of major events that happened between the time the game was announced in April 1997 and now. It also lists “Things that have taken less time than Duke Nukem Forever's development.â€
Among them: The Beatles released all of its albums, toured the world several times and broke up.
LOL! ANd about time too.
I still remember the time back in 2003-ish when there was a some Duke Nuke'Em Forever billboards at a train station.
And looks like it's R.I.P for 3D Realms too. For those people where looking forward to PREY 2, that been moved over to Radar Group for development. Hopefully they can do a some thing quicker than 11 years to release a game.