Always bet on Duke.

aw man, dinosaurs roamed the earth and you didn't keep one as a pet?!

There was a black jeep in the game at that E3, was there not?

sad to hear it, but shit it was bound to happen

I think this "aiming for perfection" is BS. They could be delivering Duke Nukem 7 by now with the time they took to do this game. I really have no pity for them, this would happen sooner or later because it is simply ridiculous.

What matter is iteratively improving. They could have released the Forever in 2001 and then improve it gradually after each new sequel.

Serves them right for pissing about. 3d realm could have put out five or six Duke Nukem games in twelve years but instead they wasted time and money on a project that ultimatly went nowhere. Thankfully with Take-Two holding onto the publishing rights one of two things will happen. Either 1) Take-Two will finish the game, publish it and try and get some of their money back, or 2) They will take Duke out behind the wood shed and put a merciful bullet between his eyes, Whatever happens however, the story of DNF will soon be coming to an end and good riddance to.

A small part of me has died.

THE FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok.  Not totally unexpected for a company that hasn't released a game in 12 years....

I'm hoping 3drealms will transfer all their assets to apogee and then finish the game there...

There were still people out there who were still expecting for this game to come out?

they should release what ever they did as freeware

Its all a load of bollocks really. 

Sadly, this is what happens when you making 1 game for 13 years. Revenue has to come from somewhere, and as a development studio, you need to release games to stay in business.

I fully expect Take-Two to switch developers, since they own the publishing rights to DNF.

What the fuck is wrong with this company?

WTF?! 3Drealms made such classic games. i'm genuinely sad to see them go down.

and yet Diablo 3 is still expected to be one of the best selling games ever... lol... And its been in production longer ,an dprobably went through more iterations.

Why did you think it was taking so long?!?!??! They were probably being operated by about 2 or 3 guys left over who somehow managed to get a paycheck without anyone noticing and now they're finally getting fired.

i feel lke it was so long ago that i played the original that it might have been on a 386. did that game run on DOS?

"i feel lke it was so long ago that i played the original that it might have been on a 386. did that game run on DOS?"

Good News! The game would have been terrible.

The Duke turned out to be a dook.

Sucks that it's official, but Duke deserves the attention and love at a rate 3D Realms simply could not provide. Luckily T2 still owns the rights because they seem to enjoy making sequels.

Though the first video from 2001 looked fucking spectacular and full of innovation for 7 years ago, I don't think there was anything that hasn't become a staple of the genre today.

SHOCK AND AWE. -_-

Duke Nukem (In Production) Forever.

Rest in pieces Duke... rest in pieces...

Duke Nukem Forever was a fucking myth.

@scooper: that 2001 E3 video was scripted.

This is absoltuely terrible news for Gamers.

Back in the day, the FPS genre kind of branchedo into a few different forks and games were made that emulated either Duke, Quake, or later Half Life. Half Life, speficially, won out and we've seen almost nothing but Half LIfe inspired, and later Battlefield inspidre, FPS games for the past 8 years or so.

I was very much holding out hope that Duke would be the game to bring the old run and gun "story is not as important as you seem to think it is" awesomeness back to FPS games.

Anyone else remember how Duke 3D came on like... 12 floppy disks or something crazy like that?

Whendinosaurs roamed the Earth.

I find it kind of weird how 3D Realms announced its closure the same week The Avalanches finished their 9-years in the making second album.

This development team had so much potential (like Ion Storm). I mean you get a bunch of really skilled computer developer, mostly veterans in the industry and give them almost complete creative freedom to make games they want to make (also like Ion Storm). But then you manage the company poorly, none of their games are on time and are running huge budgets and  the one game (Prey) they actually do make fails to succeed in tapping its full potential (*sigh* also like Ion Storm).

Fuck 3D Realms. TBH, after keeping their beloved fans waiting for over 10 years, applying delay after delay after delay (after delay...) giving false promises every time, it make me wonder why the never got out of business sooner.

Thus, I have no sympathy for these guys, at all, passionate gamers or not. Say what you want about not releasing games "until they're done," but when waiting THIS long resulted in almost nothing, you can't help but admit this was a waste of time.

I have faith with Duke. He will come back!!!

Well DNF is certainly dead now, oh well.  Still I have faith that some day some awesome studio will make the duke nukem 3d sequel I've been waiting for all these years.

Jeff your enabling. Stop it.

Psst, 3D Realms, leek the game on the Internet...

Hey... if you didn't take 12 years to still not finish a game, maybe you'd still have a job.

Talk about Duke withdraw.

Always bet on Duke*




*Nukem Forever receiving yet another setback.

This is... this is just silly. It's been ridiculous for more than a goddamn decade. By now, this is a non-story. The development process for this game has looked like the cardiogram of a guy jacked up on meth since forever. Maybe if we stop paying attention to it, it'll go away. Or get made. I don't know. Either one works right about now.

"Nothing is over! Nothing! You just don't turn it off!"  --Rambo

If they haven't released the source code to the public, then it's just a matter of time before somebody with game programming talent with take it. Perhaps Bethesda will handle it? Look how well they brought Fallout back from the dead.

Okay, that's it! Don't give this non-game any more coverage until it is either canceled or finally released. I'm getting fucking sick of all these reports that say the exact same thing! "It's not out yet, but it could be one day." AAAAHHHHHH! Enough!!!