Duke Nukem Still Forever

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Clarity over the whole "release 2008" thinger:

http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?optio ... 5&Itemid=2

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DNF, gameplay footage, Group S3x, and Parkman from Heroes:

http://crackle.com/c/jacehall

Dempsey will definitely spooge..........EVERYWHERE...........after viewing this video.

The fact that Jason Hall, the guy who helped make Blood and NOLF, is doing the interviewing makes it that much cooler.


His question for 3DRealms is also classic

[Dempsey]

"Guys, on behalf of all the fans, I just gotta say... What the f*ck is taking so long?!"
"... Well, there's the hookers and all the crack, but mostly, it's World of Warcraft. We need level 70s too"

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2 new screenshots:

http://www.3drealms.com/news/2008/09/tw ... shots.html

Aliens and strippers--classic Duke.

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Only a rumor and Dempsey has a 360, but it'd still be pretty funny if true:

http://xboxevolved.e-mpire.com/article/ ... /4846.html

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Well, here I go shoving a cold, steely knife right through Dempsey's tender heart and soul:

Shacknews post
http://www.shacknews.com/featuredarticle.x?id=1127

Joe Siegler forum post
http://forums.3drealms.com/vb/showpost. ... tcount=129

Shacknews forum post with potential explanation

Independent of another the statements of employees are overlapping. Some of you may have had an eye on Georges Twitter blog (http://twitter.com/georgeb3dr). A few days ago, George of 3DR consulted Take2, to, according to Twitter, show them the game and development status (see twitterpost).
The Reason for that was, in all probability, that 3DR in spite of all inconsistencies has been BADLY(!!) needed money for completion and the payment of employees. According to a 3DR-Insider the financial crisis even hit the concern really hard, too.
According to his statement, George has needed 5 Million Dollars to get the game finished for release. T2 ask for consideration time. George Broussard and Scott Miller had been sure, that Take2, as publisher would surly put money in one of the biggest titles in game industry and has hold (confident in a positive decision of T2) a BBQ for the staff (see Twitterpost).
2 - 3 days ago, T2 reported back to 3DR with a complete different offer no one had assumed. T2 do not wanted to put further money in the duke, according to insiders, T2 doubted strongly in the finishing, do not believed George and were in between nerved by his arrogant appearance. INSTEAD(!!) and that is what probably broke 3DRs neck, 3DR could buy the publishing rights of DNF for 30 Million Dollars back.

These guys caught Joe flat-footed on the fact that 3dRealms was closed. He didn't know and got quite p!ssed. Unfortunately, they removed that part. If someone else can find a copy that would be awesome
http://www.techhotdish.com/2009/05/06/j ... -2-thdb06/


So, if that hasn't spelled it out for you. 3dRealms has closed down and Duke Nukem is no longer forever--it's never.










Either a gutsy marketing ploy (unlikely) or the fact that a 12 year development cycle finally caught up with George's pocket book (quite likely).





















QUAKE! QUAKE! QUAKE! QUAKE! ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY CARMACK!






Though, I was (unbelievably) looking forward to playing this. Something about lobbying a freeze gun shot over the bending stripper's @$$ at Dempsey while jetpacking up through the ceiling just sounded...........fun



EDIT:

Guy reminiscing on the Duke poker chip from 1998 and how dinosaurs still roamed the Earth when DNF was announced:
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/3d-realms ... sort=first

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In a cruel twist........

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/58551
http://ve3d.ign.com/images/game/3880/PC ... creenshots

........new screenshots.



And a reminder of the length of DNF's development time:

http://duke.a-13.net/

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Maybe not dead?

http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/01/0 ... ?art_pos=5


To me, personally, it sounds more like he's saying this:

"This $h!t was so f00ked up at the management that I can't even begin to tell you how much of a colossal f00k up it was.........yes, was..........cuz it's dead, Jim."


But, dance my puppet Dempsey, DANCE!!!

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George posts this pic:

http://bp0.blogger.com/_awSNbDFeIPs/RjH ... gs-fly.jpg

People think it might be in response to him saying that "Duke would be done when pigs fly."


Seriously, if true, he couldn't drum up a pick of a flying pig cop?

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Ars timeline:

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010 ... story.ars/


Wired overview of the demo:

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/09/d ... ewall=true

[[PX]Kal Bob]

The word is it has Finely gone Gold!
http://www.neowin.net/news/duke-nukem-forever-finally-goes-gold

[Dempsey]

YAY!

[[PX]IronFist]

This is truely a day that shall live in infamy.

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Launch trailer:

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Launch ... 12861.html

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Get the game on sale (via Steam):

http://forums.redflagdeals.com/cheap-du ... t-1040483/