Duke Nukem Developer Closes Its Doors

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According to several sources, including employees, 3DRealms has gone out of business. There has been no formal announcement but the BBC has statements from 3DRealms’ Joe Siegler and Take-Two that seemingly confirm the bad news. While this isn’t too surprising given that the company has been working on DNF for over a decade, it is still a bummer.

"We can confirm that our relationship with 3D Realms for Duke Nukem Forever was a publishing arrangement, which did not include ongoing funds for development of the title," said Take-Two's Alan Lewis in a statement. There has been no official comment from 3D Realms, other than a forum posting from the company's webmaster, Joe Siegler, who said: "It's not a marketing thing. It's true. I have nothing further to say at this time."
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What a surprise.... not.

Hopefully someone will pick up the title and finish it.
 
What do you expect when you don't release a freaking game. If they would have released DNF they'd probably be all gazillionaires.
 
ROFLMAO, this after everyone thought this was the year DNF was finally going to come out.
 
tacosareveryyummy said:
What do you expect when you don't release a freaking game. If they would have released DNF they'd probably be all gazillionaires.
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Or they would have failed miserably and closed anyway because there is absolutely no way the game could have been good enough or long enough to justify the 450 year development cycle.
 
Finally, im sick of fucking hearing about this 12 year old conspiracy that is DNF.
 
i guess thats what happens when you strive for pure perfection - especially when it comes to anything remotely artistic, define perfection.
 
This is really not surprising. It isn't like they've been pumping out a bunch of game titles since Duke Nukem 3D. They took forever to develop Prey, and Duke Nukem Forever has been a running joke in the industry now for over 10 years. They've also scrapped DNF and restarted the project using new engines several times and that has to have taken its toll on the company in terms of development costs.
 
Mark_Warner said:
Or they would have failed miserably and closed anyway because there is absolutely no way the game could have been good enough or long enough to justify the 450 year development cycle.
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By the time it actually was to come out it would have been an old game :D
 
"Development of the Duke Nukem Trilogy is continuing as planned and further announcements about upcoming games will be made in the near future," the statement added.
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Sure, whatever you say buddy.
 
Dan_D said:
This is really not surprising. It isn't like they've been pumping out a bunch of game titles since Duke Nukem 3D. They took forever to develop Prey, and Duke Nukem Forever has been a running joke in the industry now for over 10 years. They've also scrapped DNF and restarted the project using new engines several times and that has to have taken its toll on the company in terms of development costs.
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They took forever on Daikatana too. By the time it launched, the graphics were painfully outdated.
 
"Development of the Duke Nukem Trilogy is continuing as planned and further announcements about upcoming games will be made in the near future from my Mom's basement"
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Fixed :D
 
Couldn't have happened to a nicer company! This is what happens when you have totally unqualified people in charge. G.B. and other top execs should get sued into infinity and beyond for wasting investors money and driving the company into dust...
 
I don't know about any one else, But DNF only means one thing to me. Did Not Finish!
 
I wonder if EB Games/Gamestop will be refunding those preorders now.........
 
Finally, maybe DN will pass into history without any pretentious notions of reappearing as a stellar game sometime in the far future. The "stellar game" part would have been highly improbable even if DNF had seen the light of day.

THE END
 
haha confirmed that Duke Nuken Forever will never happen.... lol
 
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA *BREATH* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
 
hmmmm maybe a little company called Valve \ Steam could buy them out and make it?
 
I don't know if any other publisher would touch the game,how could anything they put out possibly live up to all that hype?Better to let Duke rest in peace.
 
Calm down folks:cool: 3drealms might be gone but duke will live on.
look for duke in the next 18 months.:) 24-30 months for 360, 30-36 months for PS3. If they release a ps3 version.:D
 
Patman08 said:
Calm down folks:cool: 3drealms might be gone but duke will live on.
look for duke in the next 18 months.:) 24-30 months for 360, 30-36 months for PS3. If they release a ps3 version.:D
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Add a zero to the end of every number you posted and i MIGHT be inclined to believe you lol
 
holy f'n shit! this is real?!
lol!

2009 vaporware awards are gonna have a ball with this...
 
Check out this story I'm not sure if it is true or not but this would mean DNF was basically used as a testbed for Unreal Engine tech and wasn't probably EVER going to be released anyway.
 
Glad I didn't once lose sleep over the allure of DNF. Hell, it only crossed my mind when someone created a thread about it.
 
Man, first of all, I have to pay my respects to the Duke Nukem.

It's easy to kick a man while he is down, and sadly, I see a lot of people doing that to Nuke right now on this thread.

I'm a true hardcore gamer, to the very depth of my soul and .... I think it's pretty damn cool that they spent 12 years on it. I hope it's because they loved Duke as much as I did and wanted to give us a masterpiece. However 12 years is a long time and it could be shady business dealings behind the scene.

This is THE game that got me excited about PC gaming. It had a huge huge influence on me in several ways. Video card performance? Absolutely .. I loved this game so much, I actually went out and bought the most powerful video card I could find. It's been a long time, and I don't remember the model number but I do remember it was a Diamond something something. And boy did it make a difference. Very fast game play.

Another thing that Duke did for me was turn me on to crude and cool humor in PC gaming. Sure there was LSL ... but that humor wasn't my style. I like what Duke had to say.

And while we had Doom at the time, it wasn't Duke. Duke was a step ahead from a tech stand point. For me and a lot of others, Duke was THE game at the time. I even remember John Carmack even praised Ken Silverman's "build engine." Wish I had a link to that interview.

In the spirit of Duke, it really doesn't matter that 3Drealms is gone. Duke is still here in our memory.

In closing, some words of wisdom from Duke himself, "I aint got time to bleed...."
 
I'd love to anyone here with some mad Photochop skillz chop the DNF logo to say "Duke Nukem Never" instead of "Duke Nukem Forever" LOL.
 
kind of funny, we speculated this would happen sometime at work just last week...
Maybe we should've thought of winning the lottery.
 
Dan_D said:
And the game was buggy as hell.
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Don't forget the fact that it wasn't any fun, either.

But other than the fact the game took forever, was buggy as hell, looked like Quake 1 warmed over, wasn't any fun, and didn't sell for crap, it was a great success!
 
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