![]() ![]() A second DLC pack titled " The Doctor Who Cloned Me", released in December 2011, has a smaller campaign taking place right after DNF's ending which gives proper closure to the story along with four new multiplayer maps. It includes four new maps, each making fun of an iconic FPS series with a parody weapon based on said series, and three new game modes. The Hail to the Icons Parody Pack was released on October 11 as the game's first DLC pack. While the game was still in production, it was frequently used as a punchline in the same way as " when pigs fly" or "when hell freezes over", thanks to its constant delays and its original developers' assertion that it would be released "When It's Done" the gaming equivalent of Chinese Democracy, if you will.Īgainst all odds, the game was finally released on Jfor Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC on DVD or via Steam, just in time for Duke's 20th anniversary. On the other hand, the extensive timeline of its completion made it an industry-wide Running Gag when talking about Vapor Ware.On one hand, it's a first-person shooter and the fourth main installment in the famous saga of Duke Nukem, known for jumping back and forth between Development Hell and actual production for around 15 years, holding the Guinness World Record for the longest development period for any video game until it was surpassed by Beyond Good & Evil 2.Sponsors can message us at To pitch a startup at the Who’s Got Game contest at GamesBeat 2011, click here.This is taking forever! Time to stop pissing around and describe this bad boy!ĭuke Nukem Forever is, for all intents and purposes, two things. GamesBeat is co-located with our MobileBeat 2011 conference this year. It will focus on the disruptive trends in the mobile games market. We’ll be exploring the most disruptive game technologies and business models at our third annual GamesBeat 2011 conference, on J uly 12-13 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. The turnaround time was pretty quick for Gearbox, which released a playable demo at the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle in September.ĭuke Nukem Forever comes out tomorrow for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. Gearbox’s Borderlands was pretty successful and garnered a score of 84 out of 100 across 83 reviews on review-aggregating site Metacritic. Take-Two Interactive Software - the publishers behind Borderlands and the Grand Theft Auto series - picked up the rights for Duke Nukem Forever from 3D Realms and handed the keys over to Gearbox Software, the company responsible for first-person shooter Borderlands. The company finally shut its doors in 2009, and the consensus was that Duke Nukem Forever would forever be a vaporware title. And why not - after working on the same game for more than a decade with very little to show for it, the whole company was essentially an inside joke for the gaming community. ![]() The game was finally stripped of a release date and the last gamers heard from the testosterone-bleeding Duke was a teaser trailer in 2007.ģD Realms eventually closed its doors after failing to complete the game after more than 13 years of development. The game was plagued with delays due to changes in the game engine and other issues. While originally responsible for Duke Nukem 3D and the rest of the series, the game studio just couldn’t come to a consensus as to what to do with Duke Nukem Forever. Essentially, the game was damned if it did and damned if it did not.ĭuke Nukem Forever was trapped in developmental hell for more than ten years under Scott Miller and 3D Realms. It became a bit of a cult phenomenon, and expectations for the most recent title were extremely high. The game was extremely violent and was controversial for its depiction of women as sex objects. In the original 1996 game, the main character, Duke Nukem 3D, was a studly, cigar-chomping, and highly weaponized bad ass and struck a chord with young rebellious males playing games for the first time. The game, which was one of the most iconic vaporware titles of all time, finally got a release date and went gold last month ( and we’re pretty sure hell froze over around the same time). ![]()
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