3D Realms not dead?

[Sexy Beast]

Remember when we all thought that Duke Nukem Forever was dead and that the developing company, 3D Realms, was closed?

Well it isn't.

As it turns out 3D Realms is alive and currently in a heap of legal trouble with Take-Two, the proposed publisher of Duke Nukem Forever. You see Take-Two paid 3D Realms $12 million dollars for the publishing rights of a game that has been in development for over ten years.

So when 3D Realms informed Take-Two that the funding had dried up on the project; Take-Two attempted to buy the Dev team of the game and the game itself. Of course 3D Realms said no and promptly fired the whole Dev team, because they could no longer support them.

As it stands right now: 3D Realms owns the rights to Duke Nukem Forever, but has stopped development until it can obtain further funding. Take-Two is suing them for failure to provide a game, but will probably drop the lawsuit for the rights to it.


Source: http://www.gamespot.com/news/6209901.html
http://kotaku.com/5259942/3d-realms-were-not-closing-spent-20-million-on-duke-nukem-forever

 

[Blasphemy]

never heard of this game ever being made but ok lol. sucks to be them XD

 

[Plays2]

Wow were did u got this stuff? Any way i hope Take-Two wins it 'cause at his pace if 3D wins it, its gonna be released in an other 5 or 2 years before its release.

 

[ragnorok87]

good news or bad?

well i guess its good news, bad news if most of the dev team is gone. I still think duke nukem forever is just a big hoax to gain publicity for the company. I personally beleieve the game will never be released and its a fake just like the phantom online console joke by infinium labs.

 

[Sexy Beast]

well i guess its good news, bad news if most of the dev team is gone. I still think duke nukem forever is just a big hoax to gain publicity for the company. I personally beleieve the game will never be released and its a fake just like the phantom online console joke by infinium labs.

I have to disagree with you there 3D Realms really hasn't had anything in development since they released Prey. All though Prey wasn't developed by 3D Realms, only published, it had an incredibly long development time of 11 years.

Not to mention 3D Realms in legal trouble for not delivering the game. Personally I really don't know many companies who would sink roughly $32 million into a publicity hoax.