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3D Realms: 2K was making a second Duke game
Author: Joe MartinPublished: 23rd June 2009
2K Games was apparently working on another Duke Nukem game, called Duke Begins.
Set to be published under the 2K Games label, Duke Begins was to be finished by mid-2010 and though a developer hasn't been named Apogee has said that it would have been handed to a very well-known team. Unfortunately though, according to paperwork obtained by Voodoo Extreme, development of Duke Begins was suspended in April 2009.
The news of the second game has surfaced as part of the lawsuit Take-Two is waging on 3D Realms in an effort to recoup funding that was put into the DNF project, which was cancelled after more than a decade of on-going development.
3D Realms is now alleging that Take-Two started work on the second title to restrict the funding for 3D Reams and that, without being able to get funding from sales, 3D Realms would have always been unable to pay back the USD $2.5 million of funding they got from Take-Two in October 2007 - which is when Duke Begins was first planned. 3D Realms also claims that Take-Two would then be able to buy up the rights to Duke Nukem at a fraction of the true worth.
It's also been revealed that, on top of the money provided by the publisher, 3D Realms poured more than USD $20 million of private fund into the development of Duke Nukem Forever. To put all that into perspective and as Eurogamer points out, Halo 3 cost only USD $30 million to develop and all of that cost was footed by Microsoft.
Despite the rumours that Duke Nukem Forever will never see release though, 3D Realms claims it is still working on Duke Nukem Forever even though nearly all staff have been laid off. Take-Two has alleged that this can only be possible because 3D Realms has a substantial amount of money hidden away in off-shore bank accounts, though 3D Realms have refuted that allegation.
So, in the words of Papa Lazaru; "This is just a saga now.". Let us know your thoughts in the forums.
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They ****ed up. They know it, we know it, Take Two knows it, they just don't have the balls to admit as much.
We will, doubtlessly, see DNF from another developer in a fraction of the time, and probably for a fraction of the cost in development.
Eh. Too early to make any calls on DNF.
Not being a Max Payne fan, I can't say I even remotely noticed what Rockstar did or supposedly have done :p
Made it unrecognisable, unexciting and as predictably serious and 'oooh, gritty' as any other long-delayed sequel?
A bit unfair at this stage admittedly, but I'm just not convinced that making Max bald and putting him in Brazil is a good way forward for a game that always attracted me because of it's hard-boiled, film-noir stylings.
I was trying to get a Daikatana reference in here as well for giggles, but I fail.
You just made me LOL my lunch over the desk!
Poor Duke & poor Heikki!
___ Forever
___ Begins
we'll have the Duke Knight next....
Err, why does BitTech keep posting that false information: http://www.shacknews.com/docs/press/20090518_dnf_3dr_.x
That $12 million was nothing to do with 3dRealms, it was was between two publishers for transferral of the rights to Take 2. So, funding for DNF so far is $20 million of 3dRealms' own money and part of the $2.5 million for the two games in a later agreement.
I'd rather the money go to other developers who will actually produce something and bring it to market. I wouldn't mind if 3D Realms just spent all their money, went bust and went home; but instead they'll get backing from somebody else, some other idiot that wants to lose money.
In any case, Duke Nukem isn't a brand anymore. It's like Monkey Island - older gamers remember and love them, but will anybody new to the franchise care? Maybe people here do, but the average bloke is unlikely to.
The Duke Knight!! ROFL!!!
Cheers - corrected. Just a confusion over the exact figures.
+rep:D
... Ah, okay, it's just the 1-day-ban hammer from Joe. :D
HAIL TO THE KING, BABY!
Played both. Liked both.
(Also thought Rockstar MADE both.)
Can't say that I missed walking on a 1-pixel wide trail of blood either, tbh. That alone made the sequel a bit better.
HAIL TO THE KING
:)