Duke Nukem Forever: Rises from the grave?

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by synkr0nized

Then I misinterpreted your meaning with "it at least stole enough from everything else over the years to potentially be good". 'cause this wasn't going to be all that good.

I meant my other post with the story, but I can see the confusion if you missed it.

Originally Posted by Aerozord

I dont really follow this game, for obvious reasons. So someone fill me in. They were self funded right? So how did someone take the game away from them? Isn't the franchise theirs to do what they will or were they just granted liscencing for it?

Take Two was publishing. Basically, the story is that Take Two is the most patient company on Earth and waited over a decade before deciding that the team was not fulfilling their end of the contract by actually making the game. While the team was self-funded, they still had a contractual obligation to release the thing, which they didn't for long after it would have been reasonably expected. Take Two got fed up with the "when it's done" release date, sued 3D Realms, and is now rumored to be giving it to someone else. The key word being "rumored." There's no official confirmation yet.

[stefan]

Originally Posted by bluestarultor

Take Two was publishing. Basically, the story is that Take Two is the most patient company on Earth and waited over a decade before deciding that the team was not fulfilling their end of the contract by actually making the game. While the team was self-funded, they still had a contractual obligation to release the thing, which they didn't for long after it would have been reasonably expected. Take Two got fed up with the "when it's done" release date, sued 3D Realms, and is now rumored to be giving it to someone else. The key word being "rumored." There's no official confirmation yet.

not quite. 3DRealms WAS self-funded for quite a while, they only approached take two when they realized they were running out of money.