Duke Nukem Forever Back In Development

An anonymous reader writes "'Always bet on Duke.' It seems he was right about himself, at least. The longest, most storied in-development game in history seems like it's finally going to be released by Gearbox Software sometime within the next year. 'According to Pitchford, Gearbox began finishing Duke Nukem Forever in late 2009. "Clearly the game hadn't been finished at 3D Realms but a lot of content had been created," he says. "The approach and investment and process at 3D Realms didn't quite make it, and it cracked at the end. With Gearbox Software we brought all those pieces together. It's the game it was meant to be." The game is currently expected to ship in 2010 although given its history Pitchford is understandably reluctant to be more specific.'"

Even the meme is dead

[avandesande]

Haven't seen any Duke Nukem jokes on /. in a while.

If you believe...

[sneaker98]

If you'll believe this, than I've got a bridge I think you might be interested in!

my prediction

[jollyreaper]

In another five years someone will buy the naming rights to Duke and release a flash browser game as "Duke Nukem Forever" as a gag. "See, it finally came out."

3d Realms Forums

[emkyooess]

3d Realms is taking it badly -- they forcibly closed all forums related to Duke Nukem, even the older ones. It looks like Take 2 stole their IP.

Re:It's not april 1st

[Anonymous Coward]

You know, if they could make the actual release date on April 1st it would be rather funny. NOBODY would believe the press releases :-)

GameStop Preorder ticket

[RyuuzakiTetsuya]

I wonder if GameStop will honor my DNF preorder ticket I got when the location was a Funcoland 12 years ago.

Re:HAHAHA!

[odies]

It's actually being developed by a company that can finish games now. 3D Realms, along other fun stuff, had strippers dancing in motion capture devices and were just messing around with the game. Sure they must had have fun, but they completely lacked direction or management. Now it can actually finish.

What is this game? maybe I am too young?

[fantomas]

As far as I can work out, this is a follow on from a game previously released 14 years ago? is this correct? So who will care about its release apart from some very old-skool gamers? I guess it's just a kind of in-joke for old slashdot fans these days?

Re:Oblig.

[hedwards]

Honestly, I'll be buying a copy, if for no other reason than it's bound to be a train wreck. That and I'm really curious what 12 or so years of development actually gets. From what I've heard they've been close to releasing it a few times, but couldn't get over the perfectionist need to be as revolutionary as the previous game was.

Hope you held on to your preorder receipts!

[Lunix Nutcase]

So will that guy with the oldest preorder receipt for DNF [yahoo.com] actually get GameStop to honor it?

Re:Too Late

[Khyber]

"I remember all of the dumb little hacks I had to do to get Borderlands working as a proper PC games."

And which hacks were those? I haven't had ONE single issue running Borderlands on my HP laptop, not since release date.

Let me guess, you got a crappy sound card the U3 engine didn't like and you had to drop all the way down to basic sound acceleration?

Re:makes sense

[BaronHethorSamedi]

Does Duke Nukem still have "massive name recognition?" I vaguely remember playing DN3d when I was in high school. It was a somewhat interesting FPS, based on some fun little 2d platforming games (which I'm sure most people have forgotten by now, and few people under 30 have ever even played). It was mildly transgressive for its inclusion of pixelated strippers, and had a few fun mechanics (remote trigger pipe bombs?), but otherwise wasn't terribly unique even for its time. Since then, we've seen a glut of much prettier shooting games, with much more refined play in both single and multiplayer. These days, Duke Nukem is a chuckle-inducing byword; what name recognition it has comes from the internet memes mocking its perpetual vaporware status. If it ever is released, I can't imagine buying it, even for its kitsch value.