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

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Whats all this? Jetpack titty's and some face stomping goodness is all they needed!

At least someone gets it.

http://www.duke4.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=814

An ex-3dR guy's demoreel featuring 2 minutes of DNF footage got leaked.

edit: http://www.viddler.com/explore/Destructoid/videos/481/ streaming video link so you don't have to deal with megaupload or rapidshare.

Oh thanks Jetsetlemming! Now I want to play this! I like the First person animation of this:

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A list of possible events leading to 3DR's death based on the little bits of info and rumors spreading around, quoted from Duke4.net

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1. George and Scott own equal parts of 3D Realms.2. DNF taking forever to make costs tons of money.

3. Scott who is arguably the smarter businessman gets tired of this over time and doesn't want to dump his money into it anymore.

4. Scott looks to other things like Radar Group and newly launched Apogee Software LLC and leaves 3D Realms in Georges hands.

5. Scott is still technically a manager at 3D Realms but is effectively done with 3D Realms at that point.

6. Scott is now free to run companies as he sees fit without dealing with a 50% partner.

7. A year or so later George wasn't able to handle it, especially with lack of Scott's personal and financial cooperation.

8. Eventually funds begin to run low.

9. Since Scott is out, and so is money, George drives out to California to show Take 2 the game in an attempt to wow them into funding development to finish DNF.

10. Vague references were made to Take 2 possibly having (verbally) promising money, but didn't deliver.

11. When George requested the $5 million from Take 2 so DNF development could be funded.

12. Take 2 counter-offered with giving 3D Realms $30 million instead.... *IF*3D Realms sells all rights to the Duke IP. (currently Take2's only has publishing rights)

13. George\They refuse this and keep the Duke IP, instead shutting down the company and going on life support.

14. The purpose of not selling the IP is because the Duke IP still has the potential to make money, and it is their trademark. It would be like iD selling the Doom IP.

15. George is said to have previously went to iD Software and Epic in an attempt to make a deal with funding for them, but is turned down.

16. ..was also said to still have plans to contact other companies to make similar requests.

17. A company in a better position to spend $5 million, such as EA or Microsoft are seen as the most likely candidates for possibly investing in saving DNF.

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wish they really didn't release that vid, makes me madder.

Oh wow, that does actually look pretty good. It's reminded me how a new Duke game could be really good, albeit not one that could ever live up to its hype.

that stuff reminded me a good bunch of Sin (/Sin Episodes), which was fun and art-directional close to this stuff.

Looks like the story still the same after all these years: Las Vegas; Hoover Dam; The mine. I hate the wet effect on textures Ce2 would have been better!

Duke Nukem seems like a geriatric, he keeps falling over all the time.

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http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/316675.html

fuckk

Saw this on another forum:

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3D Realms Possibly Bought Out By Microsoft?David Villarreal brought this up the other night before the Warzone and I nearly flipped out. It makes so much sense it’s not even funny. This is purely speculation and not a rumor or fact.

So it begins with Microsoft getting rights to distribut Duke Nukem on Xbox Live. Isn’t it kinda strange that they would put such a classic PC game on Xbox Live? They updated it, added Live support and now every gold user can have a blast from the past online.

On May 6th, 3D Realms closed their doors and their site went down. The site came back up a day later. The funny thing about the timing of the closing of 3D Realms is that it’s less than a month away from E3. What David told me completely blew my mind the other night. He thinks that Microsoft bought 3D Realms and that they are working on Duke Nukem Forever as an exclusive Xbox 360 title to be published by Take Two.

It just seems to make a whole lot of sense. Microsoft loves releasing classic versions of their games on Xbox Live before and sometimes even after an updated version is released. This could be one of Microsoft’s megaton’s at E3. Again, it’s just speculation but it would be really cool to see this happen. I’ve been waiting for Duke Nukem Forever since the game was announced.

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Saw this on another forum:

That doesn't make any fucking sense tbh... let's all come up with random conspiracy theories too and gain internet fame if they happen to be true one day :comeback:

Oh I know, but I want it to be true.

I fucking don't want to have to buy a 360 to play a classic PC game on a console. I'm glad it's a bit of dumb speculation though. Phew.

Way better then being canceled, besides knowing MS it's just a temp exclusive.

We've waited 13 years, what 1 or 2 more. Though it would be a spit in the face of all those PC gamers that have waited for so long.

So meh whatever.

I don't find it all that strange that Microsoft would secure rights to distribute Duke 3D on XBLA. I'm not sure what the terms are exactly, but there's a good many classic games on Live that aren't on PSN.

Can't seriously believe this has happened really... but then again, if DNF was actually released, I think it would be a sign of the end of the world That gameplay footage is seriously underwhelming, the pigs jumping over the building reminded me of the Imps in Doom 3 :roll: The full body awareness has been done before too but it looks pretty cool in DNF. Who knows what's going on now...

The video shows off some cool old school gaming in a current gen format. Rather neat, but overall not overly impressed that this is what they have done 13 years for