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Take-Two suing 3D Realms over DNF
Author: Joe MartinPublished: 15th May 2009
Duke Nukem Forever was in development for more than 12 years and cost Take-Two more than $12 million.
The (too)-long-awaited sequel to Duke Nukem 3D, Duke Nukem Forever, was in development for at least 12 years, but the project eventually collapsed on itself recently when developer 3D Realms closed down under financial strain.
Over the years it seems that Take-Two, who was to publish the much-derided title, invested upwards of $12 million USD in the project and, now that the game will never make it to market, the company is seeking compensation by suing Apogee Software Ltd. It should be pointed out that Apogee Software Ltd is the legal name for 3D Realms and shouldn't be confused with the still-alive Apogee Software LLC which is still hoping to publish the original Duke Nukem platform games on handheld platforms.
The lawsuit is based on the fact that 3D Realms promised multiple times that it was working on DNF, but the game never really progressed close to a shippable state and was delayed by constant engine changes and tech-tweaks.
"Apogee repeatedly assured Take-Two and the video-gaming community that it was diligently working toward competing development of the PC Version of the Duke Nukem Forever," reads the complaint, according to Bloomberg.
Among other tactics Take-Two promised cash-incentives to key staff members if they could get the game out in time, but it was a move in vain and it seems that Duke Nukem Forever never really had a chance of getting to market.
Let us know your thoughts on the lawsuit and Duke Nukem Forever in the forums.
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At best they can pick up the Duke franchise, I expect.
I hope they get that. And i really think Take two was kind of "benevolent" believing in 3d realms. I think they DESERVE their money back.
Anyway, i hope some SERIOUS developer take over Duke.... As long as it's not Bethesda... Can you imagine? Oblivion with guns and Aliens?
It would be like hearing Duke saying:
"Your mommy is ugly" to an alien instead of "I am here to kick ass and chew bubble gum. And I am out of gum!"
Is it obvious that i hate Bethesda?
Yup!
If they don't use Jon St. John for Dukes voice, it's pointless to even make the game. His voice is unique to the industry and defines Duke. I'd rather Duke Nukem die off then become a casual lame cash cow like Fallout 3. It also has to have an epic DukeMatch (multiplayer). Do it right or not at all.
Did they really think DNF was a real investment?
3D Realms would have been laughed out of the Dragons Den. :)
Shame every section of the company didn't act as assertively as that one when it came to DNF. Ironically if T2 wins the suit a Duke game will have to emerge from SOMEBODY to cover the loss and the cost of the suit in the first place.
:)>
Damn you beat me to it!
that is an insult to Half-Life franchise and Valve Software. Duke Nukem 3D sure is a funny game but in no way can you compare it to the awesomeness that is Half-Life. And to even think Duke Nukem can eclipse HL2 is laughable if not a criminal offense.
yes, you've mentioned it 20 times already. Which is still half of the occasions on which I mentioned how I hated Epic for ruining the UT series.
Oh , gotta add this one to the list
The Duke was there before anyboy ever even thought about Freeman or HL. HL2 might be a wonderful game but it didn't do as much for the genre as DN3D, Quake[II], Doom[II] or Hexen[II].
They are the fathers of every single FPS out there! I don't say both HL games haven't been defining for the genre but without the above mentioned 4 franchises there wouldn't even be HL!
If you had been around in '97 playing a DukeMatch with your friends at private LAN parties, hearing the Duke swearing after every single kill in levels that just couldn't be beaten in terms of originality back then [remember, no HL, no CS, no BF] you'd definitely think different about it.
Sorry for the rant... I feel way too old now, though I'm just 25. :|
If they kept pouring money in to it, it's because they saw something good out of the game... All I've been seing in the net, suggests that they were making something big... Just hope they get the game and finish it...
I'm 26 years old but I've never heard about Duke Nukem, and actually I think the title is very silly. Duke Nukem... maybe they mean, Duke Nuke 'em? Nuke who? How the hell I know? :P
And around '97, the only 3D games I remember (and have played) is the Zero Tolerance (SEGA Genesis) and Descent series.
Space Hulk? okay you lost me on that one???
But Space Hulk doesn't have much with Alien in common other than the space setting.
Are you serious?
The genestealers even look like the aliens from Aliens plus aliens on a deserted space ship thats both pure aliens and the whole idea behind space hulk.
Thats without the space marines in space hulk and the marines in aliens both having the word marine in their name's and also both both sets of marines being armed with BFG's (look it up if you dont know what it means :D )
Aliens is Space Hulk, Space Hulk is Aliens...now if they would only do the same sort of thing for bloodbowl and dungeon bowl.
I'd love to see a film where goblins are playing an american style of football on a pogo stick whilst throwing bombs at the opposing players and the dwarf death roller would be so cool to see in a movie.
I could play QuakeII's first level blind on the hardest setting without dying. I arrived at the last boss with roughly 15 minutes of quad damage and 5 of invincibility.
Do you really think I don't know what BFG means? Really? :D
And for the "both marines have marines in their name"... eeeehhhh, okay. Now that convinced me. :p
So, what you're saying after all is that Space Hulk is an Alien rip-off? I can live with that. But there are lots of them, some even with marines who have marines in their name.