3D Realms closure confirmed, Take-Two retains Duke Nukem Forever publishing rights

I would be very surprised in no one bothered to pick up the rights to Duke Nukem Sooner or later a Duke Nukem game will hopefully get to see the light of day and with any luck it will be developed by a team that can do it justice

@havocmerc: 4 gigs? Windows 95? Do you have any idea how old you just made me feel? I'm only 28 damn it! ;) I remember when I didn't have an HDD, and floppies still flopped lol. @javierkatana: If you want to kill Uwe Boll, put him in front of a mirror. He'll see his reflection, get into some inane threatening match, and end up "boxing" himself to death like a sparrow hitting a patio door. :)

Chinese Democracy got released, this will get released too. Don't know when though....

A pitty for the lost jobs, but gamer wise, is the best that could happen. They hold the ip, activison will publish it, just pray for valve, infinity ward or crytech to develop it and there it goes, a 3 million seller done in the 2 years not 12. Also, get someone to kill uwe bowl so he wont ask the german gov to give him another 25million mandatory fund for movie arts, so he can buy the movie rights.

I weep with the memories of the future past. I remember back in the day when an average hard drive was 4 gigs and windows 95 and 98 was like sunshine on a rainy day. Alas we had but 2 meg video cards and surfed the internet POT style. The Duke ruled beck then.

"BonsaiMagpie Posted May 9, 2009 5:24 pm ET this looked like was going to be most epic game of the decade..." Lol... which decade? Heck, which MILLENIUM? ;)

The real funny part is two days later they have new screen shots so i think progress just picked up check this site out it's actual game play of Duke nukem (www.planetduke.com).

Here's hoping Croteam picks this up. Or id.

3D Realms retains the IP but Take-Two has the publishing rights... Sell the IP to a company that won't take another 12 years- Epic, Valve, id, or Monolith. I don't want Bungie to get Duke Nukem. He's not their style.

Two of my most favorites company gone forever Ensemble Studio and now 3D realms soon every game company is going to close but before that EA eats them

They sort of deserved it. I love duke nukem but as a fan i felt sort of neglected. I patiently waited, but they would never show actual media of the game. After all the years we waited we got one trailer for a game that was scrapped along the way, a crappy trailer that only showed duke lifting weights, and a few pictures. The guys deserved it becuase they did NOTHING!. They had in there job description "we don't have official release dates" as a pro...... HOW IS THAT A GOOD THING WHEN IT MEANS NOTHING WILL EVER BE RELEASED!.

What a shame, I've been waiting a long time for this game. I love the first Duke game. I had a funny feeling that 3d realms was smoke and mirrors. It shouldn't take 12 years to make a game, hopefully Valve pick it up. I'm sure they would do a great job Or maybe Id Software.

"monetary issues in demise of developer" get out. You mean a company can't sustain itself on a single franchise? Nintendo has been doing it since inception... oh wait. That's right, nintendo releases at least 10 games that have mario as a character every year.

Ya kno what 3D Realms Im gonna kick your ass and chew bubble gum and im all out of gum!!!

If any one needs to pick this up, its not ubisoft, and not bungie, not Epic, it needs to be Valve. Dear Valve: We know you aren't doing anything with HL EP3, mainly cause you don't know how to end the series, we are ok with that, so put those people into Duke Nukem Forever! But really, this is a sad day... a very sad day. We'll get you Take Two for pulling the plug, we'll get you!

this looked like was going to be most epic game of the decade. i hope ubisoft or bungie gets this one to finish it.

good lord no...this can't be happening...NOOOOO!!!!

microsoft should buy the duke nukem license, they have the skills to make a good action game like gears of war or halo. this kind of news is so sad for old school gamers like me.

First it's: "ALWAYS bet on Duke!!!" Now it's: "(bratata) Yeah, hey, number one! You're the Duke! (bratata), you're the Duke! (bratata) You're... the Duke... You're A-Number-One." The Duke is dead, long live the Duke.

Government bailout for 3D realms! DNF MUST GET FINISHED!!!!!!!!

burback2 said: Duke Nukem Forever = the Chinese Democracy of video games. Wait... is Chinese Democracy out already? Yes, Chinese Democracy was released this year.

in development... forever dnf is a joke... bad joke

Wow, they announced a new game in 1997 lol. Thats kinda sad. I remember playing Duke Nukem long ago, just didnt realize it was THAT long ago.

Duke Nukem Forever = the Chinese Democracy of video games. Wait... is Chinese Democracy out already?

@ ratm247 I didn't even bother reading all your comment.. You say Duke was never that great but here you are in here commenting and it still has a huge fanbase...In the words of ubergeek "pwnd"

We can always hope good developers will pick the franchise and make a good game, without the need of a century of development cycle. There are plenty of talented FPS developers.

We should start a charity to bring back 3d realms just to finish Duke Nukem Forever and if they don't finish it by the end of the year then we should kill them

yeah man, go back to your birthday little present ..wich is? nintendo wii? behind all that production there is workers trying to do something hard and sometimes without money. a blast from the past to the future is what i want to see. bionic commando, metroid, doom or whatever the title is. This is the the mind of the true player, and you are obvious not one of us, and i really dont care about it. So, i speak this for us and not for myself.

@CCyberDDemon: Speak for yourself. Broussard at least, kept this thing tied up for 12+ YEARS with nothing to show for it. I don't wish him the best, I wish he'd burst into flames. :)

like everything that is classic, we players sincerely hope that everything goes right for the 3d realms folks now unemployed or without a specific support, and the success of the duke nukem next title, no matter how the global crisis grows. many noob dont know that this character is older than the snes itself, in the golden age of the arcade's games and i dont want to see another title dead because of it. You guys need to stop saying that this game will never be released, what kind of players are you all? We got a story with those progammers dudes... be a little positive for a change ... even if this have to last a decade

I want it, I want, I want.

maybe it should have been called Duke Nukem For Never...

This kinda suck...I mean Beeing a huge duke nukem fan as a kid...and now studying in the video game industry I know how it's hard for a studio to make good games and stuff that will sell...however some sucky studios are still living out there...wonder why it had to be 3D realm that closes....Even if we don't know about DNF's fate I guess a small part of me will always hope to see what I was dying to play as a kid...(maybe it's a good new if take two retains dnf publishing right) lol I guess people waiting for duke nukem forever, evil dead 4 and the next batman are all in the same pot...... :(

@ratm247 your clearly missing the picture...The duke is awesome BECAUSE its cheesy as all hell. Its like watching some awesome 80s kurt russell action movies.

Hi, In our World, Capitalist World, the only thing that is important is M O N E Y. That you have good idea, that you are genius, that you have good product, have no importance. The importance is Marketing. And the Championship company for that is Microsoft. It's able to sell c**p product since many years now, and will continue...Forever. :) Sorry 3DRealms. Learn marketing like Microsoft and all will work for you (well ex-member)

I've got balls of steel!

duke nukem hasnt been cool for 12 years, and even then he was just a constructed hash of other popular characters at the time thrown into a standard fps game, at a time when fps was new and almost everything you did was innovative. now duke is still pushing the arnold terminator 2 look, while terminator 4 is coming out. i dont know how anyone would even think that duke had what it took to be a lasting icon in games. when duke was cool you either played doom or duke nukem, and in most cases you played both, because they were the only fps. theyve been working 12 years on dnf, and theres no end in sight, almost half of gamers today werent even alive long enough to recall anything about duke nukem games, why bother tagging a crappy characters name that no one remembers, to try and sell a few more copies. duke nukem being in a game is a reason NOT buy in my book, the developers are wasting their lives. by the time this game is released, its going to sell a few copies to the people who played duke decades ago and still game, but i think the kids of tomorrow are going to see duke for the cheesy 90s pop culture icon amalgamation, created solely to take money from teenagers crying for an fps besides doom. as good as this game may turn out, involving duke nukem will only cheapen it in my opinion.

D.N.Forever: THE BIGGEST JOKE OF THE VIDEO GAMES INDUSTRY IN THE LAST DECADE !!!...AND NOW THIS IS HOW IT GOES DOWN....???? I'm so disappointed but not surprised cuz' they had plenty of time to work things out !!! the first Duke Nukem was a true classic. ...shake it baby !!!

@ZedFragg: Hmmm... good point about T2 not having any real stake in this to take to court. I didn't think of that. As for the rest, well, that's why I'm not a judge lol, however I can see where you're correct on those points. I think you're right; that we'll never know what this game might have been... I mean, we barely have screenshots... It does make me a little sad. I suppose I just resigned myself to this scenario, or something like it, a long time ago. By the way, my personal favourite scene.. after Duke kicked the head of that boss through the uprights... Well, I can't really describe it here too well without getting modded. Lets just say I liked the whistling and paper-reading a LOT. I can still hear him whistling the theme song whilst... um... relieving himself in the neck of his foe. ;)

really its what you get when you don't do anything for god knows how many years.

Hahah,Duke Nukem games were awesome. Duke lives forever !!!!

I'm not surprised......frankly I never like DN

Now honestly, who actually thought DNF would ever come out?

I REALLY awaited this game for 12 years .. and after all that time I just say they leave it alone... I dont want more jokes .. we gamers had enough... We will miss you Duke

Maybe it's for the best. After waiting ages for development of Team Fortress 2, and being quite excited about pre-cartoon versions, the end result is extremely disappointing. The story of DNF development shows a similar lack of focus, direction, or integrity. I'm sure if it did see the light of day it would have been a very grim production. I will always cherish the old days when I could kick ass and chew bubblegum... even when I was all out of gum.

..........Is this out fot the Wii yet?

Not surprised. Nope, not surprised at all. This was vaporware from the very start. If this game had a grave, I only now found out where to place the rose. Moved on with my life ages ago ...

Duke Nukem Forever/Did Not Finish indeed. Too bad I wouldve liked to see what they had planned.

They should have just published the thing. How many times did they switch engines for crying out load. Entire game franchises have been created in the time this game was in development. What were they trying to accomplish keeping this game in development for that long? I guess DNF stands for Did Not Finish, not Duke Nukem Forever.