Some Duke Nukem Forenever News

[Maximus]

For those of you who still cares:

Shortly after the stock markets closed yesterday, Take-Two Interactive announced a $50.2 million loss for its second quarter. Today when the markets reopened, the publisher took a beating worthy of that doled out in one of its more violent games.

Of more interest to gamers was some major news buried in a 10-Q filing Take-Two issued to the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) yesterday. Toward the bottom of the form in the "Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements" subsection, was a major development regarding one of the most famous--or infamous--PC games of all time: Duke Nukem Forever.

According to the 10-Q, March saw Take-Two and 3D Realms renegotiate the original contract for Duke Nukem Forever, which began back in 1997. Under the original deal, 3D Realms was to receive some $6 million from Take-Two to develop the title. Now, the Texas-based developer will receive $4.25 million for the oft-delayed game, when it is completed.

When will that be? Well, 3D Realms has an incentive to get Duke Nukem Forever done by the end of the year. The 10-Q also reveals that Take-Two has offered the studio $500,000 in the form of a promissory note if the game sees "commercial release" by December 31, 2006. The deal applies only to the PC version of the game, although it was announced for the Xbox and the PlayStation 2 in 2001 and is rumored to be in development for the Xbox 360.

Source: http://www.gamespot.com/news/6152594.html

 

[guest2013-1]

hahahahaha

 

[SeanH]

about time.......

 

[useless]

how much you wanna bet they will use the Crysis engine and delay it for another 5 years?

 

[doobiwan]

I won't take that bet.

 

[nocilah]

ha ha ha... something tells me this is gonna be the crappest game of the year... unless they bring out another Sims expansion thingie....

Sims Lesbians.... now that would be killa.

 

[Maximus]

Sims Lesbians.... now that would be killa.

LOL

I remember that I used to get excited 6 years ago when they said Duke Nukem Forever was being worked on. How times have changed

 

[Maximus]

Anyways, some further news:

Duke Nukem Forenever delayed for another 150 years:

A statement from Broussard at 3D Realms:

"As for the 500k completion bonus, I don't even know were that came from," said the outspoken executive. "I do know that we never cared or asked for it, and I think it was just tossed in as part of some other agreement. We're certainly not motivated by that amount of money, after all this time, and getting the game right is what matters. I would never ship a game early (even a couple of months), for 500k."

Broussard went on to outline the current status of Duke Nukem Forever. "Our deal is simple," he said. "We're making the game. It'll be done when it's done. We've funded 99.999% of the game (aside from a very, very small advance from GT Interactive, years ago, before Take 2 bought the game from them). It's our risk, our necks and our gamble. Under the deal we should be earning royalties from about unit 30,000 or so (that's a real small number)."

 

[lord_spaceman]

Duke Nukem Forever II or the Duke Nukem Forever Expansion Pack will be out before Duke Nukem Forever.

 

[kaaskop]

At some time I read everything about the game om planetduke.com and as a huge duke fan i lost interest long time ago. Hopefully the people working on the game got another job cos DNF is prob a game that gonna take 2 generations to see the light of day. I just makes my blood boil when Broussard says (and said for the past 5 years) "It'll be done when it's done"