Duke Nukem Developer 3D Realms Shuts Down (??)

    Really weird (although not really unexpected). I hope some ex-developer blogs pop up, would be extremely interesting to read about "behind the scenes" stuff.

    Duke3d was what got me started with level design, so I guess I owe a lot to 3drealms.

    Quote from Steppenwolf

    Not surprising at all. Surprising was that they could go on with their obviously flawed development scheme for so long.

    i second that !

    duke was also kind of before my time ...

    i played through it all the way for the first time 1 year ago and was only mildly impressed the shrink ray stuff was really imaginative and sure having strippers in a game can never be wrong ... but i think people need to calm the fuck down nuke nukem is nowhere near as good as people say

    me i stick with "MY" FIRST PC FPS love : Half-Life !

    Quote from Morten

    mark my words ... "2008" the year of the duke !!!

    Bit of an old list, but for those who hadnt seen it before:

    http://duke.a-13.net/?080907

    At the bottom half.

    I especially like:

    Just to put 13 years of development a bit into perspective

    Quote

    Faster than I can even remember (literally… I don’t remember) I was knocked out of my chair by I *think* of all people Tim Sweeney (it was a wooden kitchen chair) and was pinned on the ground by Mike Wilson and Cliffy B (he’s so much stronger than I ever expected). George walks over to my chair and fucking stomps the shit out of it until the legs are broken off. He casually picks up one of the legs that had split into a shit your pants style point and starts tossing it up and down. Scott and Mark Rein alternate on and off saying that I apparently wasn’t aware how *real* business is done and that if I didn’t want to find out why those two companies had maintained such a strong position in the industry dating back to the shareware days (when it seems people didn’t ask nearly as many questions about why developers appeared, made a game, and then disappeared without a trace)… I had better reconsider my answer.I do remember the next part very very well though… I will never forget it and I have to admit that I have dreams about it pretty frequently.

    Cliffy and Mike pulled me up and shoved my face about 6 inches from the point of the chair leg. I was drenched in sweat (the trailers didn’t have decent AC so it was already hot as hell in there)… and if they had let go of me I would not have been able to stand on my own.

    George looked me in the eyes and asked me one more time what I was going to do… so at that point I did what anyone would do…

    What the hell...?

    Quote from e-freak

    What the hell did I just read..?

    This entire industry is one big conspiracy!

    wth - is this true?

    what did i read just now

    nice joke lol

    edit; would be a bit more believeable if this wasnt THAT rough, he could write screenplay for saw VIII.

    Quote from JohnC

    You people and your skimming, I swear to god.OLD. JOKE. POST.

    Nono! Thats what they want you to think!

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