The Duke Is Finally Back, For Real 309
After the first announcement on 1997-04-27 and over eleven years of fresh start after fresh start, Duke Nukem Forever finally comes to your system. At least if your system is an Xbox 360. Jon Siegler, the webmaster of 3D Realms, confirms this on their site: "As has been reported around the net today, we can confirm that the game has indeed passed final certification with Microsoft on Friday the 15th of August (on our first try, no less). That means the game is done — it is now in the hands of Microsoft." Update: 08/19 10:47 GMT by T : Several readers have written with a correction: this announcement is actually about Duke Nukem 3D, rather than Duke Nukem Forever.
3D not Forever (Score:4, Interesting)
The apocalypse is not upon us. The summary is wrong, for those of you new here. This is Duke Nukem 3D for Xbox Live Arcade and not Duke Nukem Forever.
Re:Cmon, atleast get it right! (Score:3, Interesting)
Some things was best in their time.
I still play Doom2 and SF2 on XBLA. The latest 3D engine and multi-million dollar game isn't always as good as a re-vamped or rebalanced classic.
Plus, take into consideration several million XB360 owners who weren't old enough to get into these games when they were new and cutting edge.
Finally, I used to dream of having a gigantic display to play Duke on a comfy couch when I was sitting there with my 14" CRT in a $20 used office chair. Freshened graphics on a 50" HD panel in the den, online multiplayer, and better audio will be _that_ dream come true.
Re:Hell has frozen over (Score:2, Interesting)
Ah, so you saw this too? [gizmodo.com]
Re:Yep (Score:5, Interesting)
Think what you wish.
One of the primary reasons this was done was an exercise for our programmers on 360 coding, how to interface with Live, etc, etc, etc. This was done on a "smaller" project so that kinks and issues can be worked out for the larger project (DNF).
If you want to chicken little the world, go ahead. Doesn't make it right. :)
Joe Siegler
Webmaster - 3D Realms
Re:Hell has frozen over (Score:3, Interesting)
Wow.
Now I realized how much I miss After Dark.