He’s all outta gum: Duke Nukem Forever coming 2011
On September 1, 2010, Duke Nukem creator George Broussard posted on Twitter an image of pigs flying. His hint would prove not to disappoint. On September 3, 2010, the infinitely delayed Duke Nukem Forever was shown to attendees at PAX. The game has been resuscitated by Gearbox Software, and is expected to launch in 2011, fourteen years after its development began.
Wired reports the game maintains “Duke’s greasy sexist charm,” with school-girl make-out sessions, three-breasted aliens, and blowjob double-teams all featured in the demo. I hear you also shoot things.
Among other things, Duke Nukem Forever‘s development time has lasted longer than “World War II and the entire Manhattan Project.”
No word on the GameCube version originally promised in 2001.
Time to dig out those pre-order receipts.
Even though I have a strong feeling that this game will be delayed until the year 2057, I’m going to have to change my pants from all the excitement.
Gearbox is developing it. Not some stuck-in-development-hell 3DRealms Team. They generally make good on their promises.
I think the only thing that will hold it up now will be then stumbling on some ridiculous broken code that has to be completely rewritten because it’s still based on something written in 1997.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/748-Duke-Nukem-Forever