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This has to be a SERIOUS sign that the Apocalypse truly is upon us!

When game studio 3D Realms started work on Duke Nukem Forever in 1996, Bill Clinton was winding down his first term as U.S. President. “Broadband Internet” meant a 56K modem. The first Star Wars prequel was only in pre-production. You could board a commercial airliner without once taking off your shoes. The Simpsons was still consistently funny. Gasoline cost around a dollar a gallon. “Burning a CD” was uncommon vernacular. Pluto was still a planet.

Fifteen years, millions of dollars wasted, multiple changes in graphics engines and a studio takeover later, the game that has come to be called “Duke Nukem Never”, “Duke Nukem Whenever”, “Duke Nukem If-Ever”, “Duke Nukem Not-Ever” and so many other mocking epithets is finally a finished product and has been released to manufacturing!

No, I’m not kidding. Even as you ...

May 7, 2009

Duke Nukem… Never! 3D Realms no more

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Duke Nukem Forever is now officially deader than Elvis. 3D Realms has shut down for good and Take-Two – which had the publishing rights to the game – has announced it will not be funding any more development of the project.

So after more than twelve years of work on this one video game, it now looks as though there will be absolutely nothing to show for the effort or the money. And what’s more, Duke Nukem Forever is now poised to become an even more legendary fiasco than Daikatana ever was (and that’s sayin’ something). Expect an onslaught of vaporware jokes about this in the coming days....