Duke Nukem...

[Sonic]

... developer goes bust

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8037688.stm

What an awesome game that was, and would have been with the new version.

[Nuvo]

Duke's been nuked. Very sad, but 12 years to develop a new release? That must be a record.

[KaraK]

See here:

http://duke.a-13.net/

for a list of things that have been achieved while waiting for DNF... well worth a read!

[Acidburn]

Shame really, was a good game when I last played it, but that was years ago

[mcandmar]

That takes me back, who remembers this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGIDA6QtRc4

[Sonic]

"shake it, baby"... i can even hear the background music...

[S2central.net]

'Come get some'

I used to play that LOADS in the past

[HPmuirt]

Sheesh, why were they not closed down after 2 years, not 12!

But god, it takes you back doesn't it....

I used to play Duke Nukem on 4 networked 486 66DX2 PC's in my friends accountancy firm.

Fast forward a few years and at my last place, the entire company used to play Wolfie at lunchtime, including the mental map which was just a shed and a diving board.....we used to play that map with just rocket launchers so the plan was, spawn (always in the shed) fire the rocket launcher to kill every in the room and dive out of the window. If you survived, you had to climb the high board before someone else stuck a rocket literally up your 4r$e

Love the list of accomplishments that took less time: -

Entire US space program
Stephen King wrote 16 novels
World War I and World War II COMBINED
The complete construction The Empire State Building and The Channel Tunnel

Tears n fears

Si

[S2central.net]

Sounds like a big open arena we used to play on Marathon in the office. Next to zero cover so you had to run like mad all the time - just about impossible to stay alive for more than a minute with 8 of us in the game. Some sad **** created a map based on the office and factory - that was freaky - letting off grenades in the stairwells and spraying blood all over the kitchen floors. And they say these violent games affect people

[maartenmoerman]

time to kick some ***, and chew bubble-gum!

[Sonic]

The question is, after some good R&R, will Duke be back, and ready for action?

[mcandmar]

Hopefully Valve will buy the IP rights and make a kick *** game with it.....but in reality EA will buy it and make a total turd out of it.

[KaraK]

Take-2 (the publisher) still own the rights to the game so I think you'll see something turn up at some point. I wouldnt hold my breath on the quality of any quick fire effort though

[Jersey90TQ]

that must have been an awesome job for 12 years... sitting in an office playing and attempting to develop a video game and getting paid.. if i was into gaming like that then it would be a dream job.. that must have been an office full of "Grandmas boy's"

[mikeraz1]

What always puzzled me was How many consoles where released in those 12 years? They must have had to start again every time the hardware took a huge leap forward