Duke Nukem Forever announced by Gearbox Software

PC News | Always bet on Duke.

They said it would never happen. They said it was too late. They said it was impossible. They were wrong.

Making gaming history, 2K Games has today announced at the PAX entertainment show in the United States that the one and only gaming behemoth Duke Nukem Forever was returning, spearheaded by development studio Gearbox Software.

Duke Nukem Forever is well known for its abnormally long development schedule. At 3D Realms the title stayed in development for over a decade, passing through numerous redesigns and rendering engines. The 3D Realms mantra of "When it's done", referring to when the product would be finish, became somewhat of a joke, with many suspecting that the title would never see the light of day. 3D Realm's significant legal issues in 2009, coupled with the loss of key staff, had most people believing the game was well and truly dead and buried.

Gearbox Software, well known for Borderlands and the Brothers in Arms series, are now behind the reigns. Playable at PAX, Gearbox has stated that the game is in its final stages of polish, and that they are aiming for a 2011 release across PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

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28 Comments

grim-one

1 year ago

light487 wrote

grim-one wrote

3D Realms and Apogee still sell them. Duke3D and the weird side scroller are also on gog.com too.

I think you need to get DOSBox or similar program to run them though, right? I remember grabbing something from Apogee last year and while it ran, it ran at a phenomenal speed.. so had to get a program to simulate an old 486 processer

Yeah the 3D Realms and Apogee sites sell the original games as is, so you'll need to slow them down with DOSBox or similar.

As for GOG, I think they distribute older games packaged with DOSBox so they should be ready to go.

Sin Ogaris

1 year ago

I'm not sure how GoG does things because I've got a lot of older games from there and they just work. I don't need to run DOSBox (unless the exe's do it in the background) they run at the correct speed and all is well, even mega old school like Commander Keen.

grim-one

1 year ago

Sin Ogaris wrote

Yeah GOG games either run DOSBox in the background or they have custom patches for the game. It's all ready to go as soon as you download it, no setup required.

Bonzracer

1 year ago

After thriteen years right?
It sounds like the demo's true to games style and character (charm might be pushing it depending on your slant regarding Duke's behavior) be amazing to see how the modern world reacts to this game and if it was a very unfortunate decision to resurrect this dinosaur from gaming's long lost past ...

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