Thursday Night Throwdown 10/07: Duke Nukem 3D

Ever since PAX, where Randy Pitchford and the boys at Gearbox made the stunning announcement that they had taken over development of Duke Nukem Forever, with the unbelievable intent of actually finishing it and pressing it to discs and then shipping those discs to stores and then selling those discs as an actual, honest-to-goodness video game, well, Duke's been on our minds quite a bit. What better way, then, to reacquaint yourself with Mister Nukem's unique brand of corny-ass one-liners, casual misogyny, and white-hot hatred for porcine police officers than with a little bit of that old-fashioned Dukematch? Because that's exactly what we'll be doing on this week's Thursday Night Throwdown!

Since the original PC version of Duke Nukem 3D was made before the dawn of Internet multiplayer, we'll be sidestepping any sort of IPX/SPX emulation or weird third-party tunneling boondoggle by just playing the 2008 Xbox Live Arcade release of the game. If you want in on the action, you can send a friend request to GBTNT on Xbox Live, and then be ready to rock this Thursday between 4PM and 6PM PDT. We're also inviting folks to submit their own ridiculous promotional banners, the best of which we'll be featuring on the front door of the site. Check out this forum thread for more details on that. Of course, you can always just watch the carnage unfurl on our live video stream while getting good and belligerent in the chat, Duke-style.

To get you good and pumped up for the imminent Dukedown, here is the best Duke Nukem video the Internet has ever birthed! See you all on Thursday!