By: Jon Christensen on December 6th, 2009 pm31 9:14 pm
The last couple of days or so, the official Facebook page of Duke Nukem has been pretty active. Not to long ago, a picture was posted teasing fans of a possible game being released, or possibly the infamous Duke Nuke Forever was eventually going to be shipped — even though the original developers, 3D Realms,has shut their door for good.
Just a few hours ago, a new message was posted on its status bar and it seems that whomever wrote the message, is trying convey that when this Duke Nukem game is released, people will be shocked.
“Duke Nukem says it’s gonna happen, and when it does, shock and awesome.”
This is far from a confirmation; however, it does seem like something is starting to brew in the Duke’s Universe — only time will tell exactly what that is. Hopefully something little more concrete than some Facebook page, will reveal that Duke is returning to the industry.
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By: Jon Christensen on July 14th, 2009 pm31 1:20 pm
Last year, we ran an exclusive story about how Gearbox was working on a Duke Nukem game. Thanks to some court documents, which shacknews uncovered, Gearbox was indeed working a brand new Duke Nukem title, called “Duke Begins.” The studio was named by Take-Two’s counterclaim for the pending lawsuit against 3D Realms.
As of now, Take-Two has announced that Duke Begins has not been cancelled, but “has for the time being been halted.” Basically, the shooter is in limbo and if the lawsuit isn’t straighten out soon — than most likely it will be dropped.
Originally, Duke Begins was scheduled for release sometime in mid-2010, however, if it ever sees the light of day — chances are it will be much later.
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By: Jon Christensen on August 28th, 2008 pm31 10:14 pm
Thanks to a source who is closely related with Gearbox software, we have some information about what the company’s next project is going to be. The source, who shall remain nameless, gave us a tip a few days ago regarding what the Dallas based company was working on. It’s not Halo 4. We thought about posting the story right away but we waited to make sure the source was legit. Here is what he/she first said:
“Well, I can tell you that it’s not Halo 4. When it is announced fans of a series from the past will be surprised.”
While we verified the information, some news broke about how the game was in fact going to be a shooter and how it is going to be multi-platform. Obviously if it was Halo 4, it would be exclusively for the Xbox 360, thus not multi-platform. So just like our source said, it wasn’t Halo 4.
Today our source contacted us once again and gave us a little more detailed information about what game they’re working on:
“The game is closely related to the story [on Slashgamer.com] that was posted on Aug. 27th at 5:37 P.M. Very closely related.”
We then searched our articles and were surprised by the title of the post that he was referring to; “‘Duke Nukem as of Now has ‘Several Hours’ of Gameplay Under it’s Belt“.
That’s right, our insider has implied that Gearbox is working on Duke Nukem, not necessarily Duke Nukem Forever, but something that has to do with Duke Nukem none the less. After doing a little research and looking up the history of the President of Gearbox Software, Randy Pitchford, we noticed that he did work on Duke Nukem 3D as well as the N64 version Duke Nukem 64.
After digesting that information, it does make a lot of sense that Randy Pitchford would call this game “big” if it were Duke because of his history with the series. If we get anymore tips about the game we’ll post it.
Although we can’t 100% confirm this rumor, it doesn’t sound that far fetched either.
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