Duke Nukem Forever (finally) goes gold

Neowin / Slashdot ^ | 2011-05-21 | John Callaham

[rabscuttle385]

Today a game that's been in development for 15 years is finally completed. 2K Games sent over word via a press release that Duke Nukem Forever, the long awaited sequel to 1996's Duke Nukem 3D, has finally "gone gold', meaning that the game's main development has been completed and is now being replicated onto disks for its release for the PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 platforms.

It's been a long, long time since the game's original developer 3D Realms started working on the game. It first showed off screenshots (using id Software's Quake 1 engine) back in 1997, and in 1998 it actually showed a demo at E3 behind closed doors. Just a few weeks after E3 1998, 3D Realms announced it had switched over to using Epic Games' Unreal Engine to make the game. The next screenshots and a gameplay video were released in 2001, again at E3. After that there was almost nothing released from 3D Realms about Duke Nukem Forever even though the game was still in development.

[Celtic Cross]

Do you rather mean Lady What?

[shibumi]

,p>

[dagoofyfoot]

After fifteen years, it'd better be VEEEEEERY darned good.


Not sure about that, but from the previews it looks fun as hell!

[martin_fierro]

[Nowhere Man]

Thank you for bustin’ up my ride.

[sten]

chips & cards?!

i want some!

[Heavyrunner]

I watched the previews for this...While I’ll certainly be buying it, my kids won’t be anywhere nearby...They took crude humor to beyond “The Hangover” levels.

[Jack Hammer]

I’ll settle for fun...

[doorgunner69]

It first showed off screenshots (using id Software's Quake 1 engine) back in 1997, and in 1998 it actually showed a demo at E3 behind closed doors. Just a few weeks after E3 1998, 3D Realms announced it had switched over to using Epic Games' Unreal Engine to make the game.

I must really be a certified olde farte. Have no clue what in hell they are talking about. Must mean great things to Gen-X/Y/Z though.............

[Vendome]

“Are you on drugs?”

“Gee, I really am handsome”.

[catbertz]

Yeehaw! I’m ready to play, and I’m all out of gum.

[personalaccts]

In college we use to sneak into the computer lab (15 of us) and play. It was fun.

[Dixie Yooper]

I was good at PONG. I could’a been a contender if it hadn’t been for all those “flashier” games that came out after.

[SunkenCiv]

Fifteen years? What is it, a government project?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1493781/posts?page=9#9

[EODGUY]

The true downside of this creation is that within 2 minutes of its release, the Chinese will have pirated copies for sale on the internet.....probably in a lead paint embossed package.

EODGUY