Valve Delays Portal 2, Squashes Duke Nukem Rumors 135
SKYMTL writes "In a tongue-in-cheek commentary, Valve has announced the delay of Portal 2 and thrown water on the rumor fires regarding its E3 'surprise.' This surprise was rumored to be either Half-Life 3 or the revival of Duke Nukem, and it looks like neither will happen anytime soon."
Re:Noooooooooo (Score:3, Interesting)
Duke Nukem Forever will happen eventually.
It's a huge pile of money sitting on the table, waiting for someone to pick it up.
I have said the same of the 1997 game "Redneck Rampage" [wikipedia.org], which the rights has been bought and sold many times but no one has developed the next generation. Still one of the funnest FPS games ever made. There are rumors of a new version [incgamers.com] but they are only rumors. Granted, not exactly as big as Duke, but it was still a hugely successful game.
As silly or goofy as the game might seem, it was a damn fine example of what you can do when you use good physics, solid game play, and good old fashioned gutter humor. TF2 is another good example, just with different humor.
Re:Quick! Someone coin a new meme! (Score:5, Interesting)
There have been several good Duke Nukem games actually finished and released, you realize? This one is "Duke Nukem Forever". So one might say "Duke Nukem Forever'ed", or just "DNF'ed". "DNF" has a long history from auto racing (and probably from other racing before that). It's an abbreviation for "did not finish", which is apropos for the game.
So I think you'll find "DNF" is the phrasing of choice for such a situation, really.
Re:phew (Score:3, Interesting)
You wrote "cannot be purchased".
What you meant to write is "cannot be as easily pirated by people who don't know what they're doing".
Re:Noooooooooo (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Obviously so they can focus effort on Linux (Score:3, Interesting)
Or run Linux in VirtualBox.
If you don't use Linux for 3D stuff, it feels damn-near native on a modern machine. No more rebooting. Bonus: you don't have to install duplicate apps in both environments (like OpenOffice).