So I hear that Duke Nukem Forever is shipping in 2011...

[Tev]

Maybe it's lies....maybe it's not.

To paraphrase Mark Twain, there are lies, damned lies, and Duke Nukem Forever stories. The game's been vaporware for over a decade. Leaked screens and gameplay videos from so-called alpha versions occasionally emerge then fade in a muddle of half-baked theories, forum mockery, and fan dismay. When the game's now defunct publisher 3D Realms talk about the game these days, few listen.

Until today, that is.

Yesterday 3D Realms president George Broussard teased gamers with a picture of pigs flying. (In a 2006 1UP interview, Broussard joked the game would be out when pigs flew.) Today, he's explaining what that means. Or at least the game's new developer is.

At PAX Prime 2010, Gearbox (Brothers in Arms, Borderlands) president Randy Pitchford confirmed rumors that his studio has assumed responsibility for the practically mothballed shooter. What's more, he announced it'll be playable--that's right, playable--on the show floor.

"People seem to be enjoying the game a lot," reads a dispatch from 2K Games' Twitter feed. "How many [PAX] folks thought they'd leave Seattle having played [Duke Nukem Forever]?"

The game, due in 2011, will be available simultaneously for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Microsoft Windows.

So they got some new guys who actually have it in them to maybe make this happen. The part about it being playable on the showroom floor is nice.

Anyway.....taking bets on what we may actually get in 2011?

[Melfice]

Originally Posted by Tev

Maybe it's lies....maybe it's not.



So they got some new guys who actually have it in them to maybe make this happen. The part about it being playable on the showroom floor is nice.

Anyway.....taking bets on what we may actually get in 2011?

It'll probably be a standard Duke Nukem.
If they're smart, they'll Borderlands it up a bit. The Duke Nukem series could most likely benefit from it.

Regardless of what they do with it, I think the final game will be very mediocre, but sell fairly well due to nostalgia and a general WTF! reaction.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

Ohh no, I'm not falling for this one again. Too many times this has been said, I just don't believe it any more, not matter how insistent and "For realz!" they may be. I won't believe it until I see and actual copy on the shelf of a shop.

[Tev]

Actually, part of me is actually wondering....do you think they will honor those decade old per-order certificates?

[Seil]

Why Tev, do you still have yours?

I think you could sell them as collectors items now, if you're in the right crowd.

[mudah.swf]

Apparently their stream at PAX was disasterous. Not streaming the trailer, getting a horrible cameraman to film everything and low quality footage to top it off.

[Toastburner B]

Originally Posted by Melfice

Regardless of what they do with it, I think the final game will be very mediocre, but sell fairly well due to nostalgia and a general WTF! reaction.

This. At other websites I've seen other people saying they are going to buy it, despite the fact that it is probably going to suck, just because it is part of gaming history. I disagree...DNF's great place in history is that it was the great running gag of gaming. If it does come out, there goes all it's mystique; probably replaced with a bad-to-mediocre game.

Well, either that or ten years from now Gearbox will be going out of business and everyone will still be wondering if DNF will ever be released.

[BitVyper]

Basically, if it comes out and it's actually good, then don't worry, because you are in Elysium, and you're already dead.

[Kim]

I hate what I've heard about it from people who played it at PAX. It is everything wrong with gaming today.

[Funka Genocide]

but... Duke Nukem was never good.

I don't get this at all.