Duke Nukem developer goes bust

XMEN Iceman · Post by **XMEN Iceman** » Fri May 08, 2009 3:32 pm

It is a very very sad day.

"Veteran games developer 3D Realms has closed down because of a lack of funds."

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

Post by **XMEN Gambit** » Fri May 08, 2009 7:48 pm

Well, they'd have HAD funds if they'd been able to decide on a direction for DNF, finish it, and get it on the market. I mean they only had about 10-12 years to do so...

They'll probably sell the franchise to someone else, and I say about time. I don't have a lot of sympathy for 3DRealms(the company) after some of the insider stories I read. I do feel for the developers, artists, etc. who wasted their time on this and might have to put it on their resume.

I found this tangentially-related article on Duke interesting:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4908484.stm

Spinning Hat · Post by **Spinning Hat** » Sat May 09, 2009 2:19 pm

I'm with Gambit on this. I enjoyed the original game, and thought DNF could be a lot of fun. But a title with initials like DNF, did we really ever think it was going to happen?

XMEN Iceman · Post by **XMEN Iceman** » Tue May 12, 2009 12:53 pm

Here is a video of where they were in some of the development. It looked pretty dang good!!!

http://www.hardocp.com/news.html?news=M ... FzdCwsLDE=

Spinning Hat · Post by **Spinning Hat** » Tue May 12, 2009 3:05 pm

Hopefully someone will buy the IP and finish it. That's best case scenario I think.