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Dungeon Keeper 3 Cancelled

A Bullfrog site update states that development has ceased on the strategy series' follow up.

Bullfrog Productions, the UK-based EA division known for its offbeat strategy games, has revealed that it has decided to end work on Dungeon Keeper 3 so as to work on other games. The site explains that "opportunities to develop new intellectual properties on new platforms such as PlayStation 2 have meant that DK3 has been put on hold." Though there are no plans for developing any new Dungeon Keeper games at the moment, the Bullfrog statement points out that this is always a possibility for the future.

The Dungeon Keeper titles were real-time strategy games that put players in the role of a dungeon overseer charged with managing an underground realm and protecting it against the goodly adventurers that conventionally appear in roleplaying games. The series won praise from reviewers for its innovative design and devilish humor.

54 Comments

  • Mtngranek

    Posted Sep 21, 2011 7:41 pm GMT

    DK3's cancellation is why I hate E.A. I try not to buy any of their games...but they are like the only game publisher out there anymore. I hate them so much over this. I've been waiting for this game since I saw the sweet trailer in DK2.

  • Tommygunn96

    Posted Oct 4, 2010 11:16 am GMT

    dungon keeper 3 is coming

    Dungon keeper worlds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss3uV274moE&NR=1 also as an mmo

    it will come in 2011 but only in china

  • _fark_

    Posted Jun 7, 2010 2:56 pm GMT

    DK was one of the best games ever..! I cant think of many rts games that can stand up to the awesomeness of the DK series

  • Frisky_Dingo86

    Posted May 25, 2010 1:40 pm GMT

    Hope to see DK 3 done while im alive and able to play . . And i must say the gaming world just isnt what it used to be without Bullfrog . .

  • Tommygunn96

    Posted May 14, 2010 1:35 pm GMT

    I LOVE DK best game ever, best game EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • jawa132

    Posted Feb 13, 2010 2:12 pm GMT

    I HATE you bullfrog do hear me HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE you

  • TOMKHAN

    Posted Dec 4, 2009 4:38 pm GMT

    Dungeon keeper, one of the best game ever. Same as Half life, Populous, Black & White, ahhh. Good old times, where everything was new and so funny and playable. Today's games just sux.

  • Drogmon

    Posted Sep 4, 2009 10:10 pm GMT

    lol man all this time i thought dk3 would have been done. well when they get too it i hope they stick too where they left us all.

  • iwontpayu

    Posted Sep 4, 2009 7:13 pm GMT

    if they do decide to make a dk3 y not throw a kind of twist for ex: evil went to the uper world but were completely overwhelmed by the full force of united dwarves elves n humans and there heavily defended fort gaurding the exit/entrance to the underworld kill many creatures and giveing them a huge advantage and forcing all the keeper to the lowest plain of hell (since there always talking about plains) u must now reunite the scatterd creatures finding new ones and old ones(i want dragons back damnit) and u pretty much go all the way back to where #2 ended and from there a whole new game franchise could be made for the upper world battle

  • Mickeyminime

    Posted Jul 9, 2009 12:22 pm GMT

    i would rather the game be like DK1, or a remake of DK1, just with better graphics and maybe some stuff from DK2 on it as well. DK2 is pretty slow unlike the origional when it comes to combat, less deadly should i say. I did hear that the plans for DK3 where dreadful and that they had to scrap it as it didnt go so well with the pics and designs for the DK3 to be above ground i.e earth. It basicly wouldnt be a dungeon keeper game as it wont be underground. Anyway thats what i saw, read about some time ago =(

  • Rothgon

    Posted May 14, 2009 2:20 am GMT

    IMO designing another DK game using next generation technology is a heavy responsibility. Don't forget that the companies want to sell their soft, so it must also be made catchy. There is also the two edged possibility of being either console-based or MMO for PC. - Both would ruin DK3!
    If it is going to be coming out this way I prefer sticking to DK1!

  • DarkfallWaaagh

    Posted May 12, 2009 12:26 pm GMT

    EA's Corporate CEO's should be piked Vlad the Impailer style.

  • goduffgo

    Posted Apr 4, 2009 7:27 am GMT

    some indie people i found on google are atually making DK3! it looks very good so far

  • DoomZaW

    Posted Mar 22, 2009 12:48 pm GMT

    an epic "Epic fail"

  • Martynasmatuse

    Posted Mar 19, 2009 1:14 pm GMT

    It is best strategy i ever play !

  • Shadow_th

    Posted Feb 22, 2009 1:17 am GMT

    Electronic Arts. Screwing up the best game franchises since [insert date here].

  • IncipitOmega

    Posted Feb 21, 2009 11:33 am GMT

    This game would have soooo much potencial at this time,and soooooo many fans are still waiting for this game...damn,I really hope they make it some day....

  • cowsgomoo62

    Posted Jan 20, 2009 3:19 pm GMT

    I can't believe they couldn't put out the same game with updated graphics and a couple new features

  • Killingspree303

    Posted Nov 1, 2008 4:44 pm GMT

    Too bad

  • mambo13

    Posted Sep 14, 2008 10:27 am GMT

    BRING BACK DUNDEON KEEPER!!!!!!! It is a geniously designed gam with huge potential! I want my DK3 !!!

  • gamermanps2

    Posted Jul 18, 2008 5:30 am GMT

    Bring Dungeon Keeper back! I just signed the petition, there's about 3600 signatures. It's obviously going to be successful so why don't they make a third? I love dungeon keeper and still play it now and then. YIBEEE!!!!!

  • lamesniper

    Posted Apr 12, 2008 1:56 pm GMT

    I say bring it back
    Sign this petition to bring it back (2366 Total Signatures)
    http://www.petitiononline.com/k33p3r/petition.html

  • Taiko88

    Posted Feb 26, 2008 10:58 pm GMT

    *sniff* Somewhere a puppy died...namely me

  • xxLordDavidxx

    Posted Nov 16, 2007 4:45 pm GMT

    EA own the rights to Dungeon Keeper. And we all know that EA suck and are never going to make the game.

    If Lionhead brought the rights we'd be in the green

  • goduffgo

    Posted Nov 12, 2007 8:15 am GMT

    i still cannot understand why they would just leave DK! I bet if every DK fan comes out and protests greatly at the same time they would do summit! about it!

  • dartharel

    Posted Nov 9, 2007 4:17 pm GMT

    Dungeon keeper with todays technology? Surley thats both a money oppurtunity for EA and a reward for fans who thought they were gonna get a DK3 judging from the DK2 trailer? i dont think it will, but i hope it does get made

  • DoomZaW

    Posted Sep 11, 2007 3:11 pm GMT

    So sad that they cancelled it, The Dungeon Keeper series was one of the best i've ever played.... i loved both 1 and 2, despite being only 7 years old at the time, i was still yelling : WHY GOD?!? WHY WOULD YOU THAT TO US?!? WHY PUNISH US SO HARD?!????

  • nm_jay_jay

    Posted Aug 17, 2007 12:48 pm GMT

    guys i posted a topic on ea forums tellin em we want dk3 heres the link http://forum.eagames.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=404071#404071

  • spurrv

    Posted Jul 2, 2007 8:43 am GMT

    Buying games today is something i almost never do, because all we get now-adays are lame football games and hockey and blabla 1 billion sport games that we all reallyyyy hate.

    Dungeon keeper 3 would be the only game i would pay for with a smile.

    however sequals aren't always that good, lets hope this one will be bad .

  • ryphal

    Posted Jun 8, 2007 1:17 pm GMT

    At least we can feel like a DK in the new Overlord game coming out! Or at least a DK that's come out from underground to kill some do-gooders.

  • kekeMitty

    Posted May 11, 2007 8:03 pm GMT

    this shucks. i am a collector of dungeon keeper series. been waiting and still no call that dk3 would be made. sigh. what a waste of good games.

  • joshuahaveron

    Posted Apr 23, 2007 8:07 am GMT

    This game was one of the best ever how dare they not make a dk3! all the potential and they waste it!

  • KristuZz

    Posted Apr 8, 2007 8:31 am GMT

    Kinda Wierd that no company ever took up the idea to make DK3? A game with such potentiel to become a huge succes? Its 10 times the gameplay of Black and white!

  • wovan

    Posted Apr 2, 2007 4:31 pm GMT

    It So Good To Be Bad! I realy realy will buy it, I want DK3!

  • recruit50

    Posted Mar 26, 2007 1:19 pm GMT

    I miss hurting all the good people with my evil creatures! Make DK3!

  • mikvel

    Posted Feb 20, 2007 10:44 pm GMT

    This was by far the best game back then, I really hope DK3 will come in the future.

  • sickkent

    Posted Feb 3, 2007 10:49 pm GMT

    aww.. i wanted DK3

  • EnTrue

    Posted Jan 29, 2007 5:42 pm GMT

    You are right man.. We need it.. It's not good can't to be bad..

  • EduardoFirmino

    Posted Jan 27, 2007 3:41 am GMT

    Wouldnt you buy DK3 if it came out? I would, dont you agree?

    Attention developers if you happen to stumble across this message boards, I want to let you know that now is the time to resume work on this series. Dungeon Keeper still has a lot of potential in your market, even more so now that we have seen game characters and film characters show more of their darker sides (James Bond, Fisher (Splinter Cell), Batman, Skywalker (Star Wars), Achilles (Troy), Jason Statham (Crank), etc.) The list goes on! Dungeon Keeper is one of the first games i playied that allowed me to see the game world from a whole different prespective... from the "good" bad guy point of view XD. I vote yes for a new Dungeon Keeper Instalment (I surely will buy the game... who else agrees with me?)

  • ElectrolightSH

    Posted Dec 22, 2006 12:50 pm GMT

    Man I can't believe this, I was such a huge Dungeon Keeper fan but now EA owns the rights and they're never going to do anything with it.

  • kerol_naim

    Posted Dec 15, 2006 12:33 am GMT

    well..Peter Molyneux's roles in DK2 were small..unlike the prequel. Unless DK3 were direct by Peter himself, the cancellation is not-so-bad news afterall

  • poppler935

    Posted Dec 12, 2006 11:50 am GMT

    should be a good an if they do make it eventually

  • indestined

    Posted Dec 7, 2006 9:54 pm GMT

    yea... why did they cancel it? i used to love this game... so sad... so very sad. is there a way to contact them and possibly pursued them to make it? or at least a link to justify this?

  • Abegao

    Posted Oct 20, 2006 1:58 pm GMT

    bastards

  • joseMolina18415

    Posted Aug 30, 2006 1:09 pm GMT

    Why they cancel Dungeon Keeper 3???... it was a great game of Real-Time Strategic..
    A VERYYY GGGOOOOODDD GAMMEEE!!!

  • the_sharko

    Posted Aug 18, 2006 12:12 pm GMT

    Screw the PS2! Why'd it have to be canceled...?

  • Exceptio

    Posted Jul 31, 2006 11:03 am GMT

    i want dk3!!!!

  • ace1177

    Posted Jun 15, 2006 4:09 pm GMT

    For anyone that wants this game as badly as me and alot of people I know sign this. Its a petition thats been around for a long time. At the moment it only has 414 signatures we need alot more.
    http://www.petitiononline.com/dngnkpr3/petition-sign.html?

  • sasssi

    Posted May 18, 2006 4:39 am GMT

    nooooooooooooo why they cancel dk3

  • Dw-Dano

    Posted May 13, 2006 1:54 am GMT

    D: i loved DK lol the casino 'Burn Baby Burn Disco inferno'

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