I don't know whether to laugh or cry. 

The hell did they survive this long? Did they have releases I didn't know about? 

thank you DROOJISCHE (ie friend) 

Prey, and a couple of Duke Nukem platformer style games.

I'll miss these guys (if the rumour is true), Duke3d and Quake were among the 1st games I played on pc!

I was really hoping for a Prey sequel too! Such an under rated game!

/cry 

lol 

+1 to laugh 

Oh, and the most interesting part of that article being that Apogee 'still' exists... 

 

Daz: "was hoping" ?


;o 

Didn't know they were behind Prey . . . which was an industry success, last I heard. 

will never die, you cant die when you made a game this cool
http://www.ibiblio.org/GameBytes/issue21/flooks/rott5.gif 

http://i.a-13.net/slash000_fudigg.jpg 

but, 2001??

The first issue of PC Gamer I ever bought had Flight Unlimited 2 and Duke Nukem Forever on the cover. It was 1997, I was 13, my favourite band at the time was probably Linkin(sp) Park.

This really is the end of an era. 

...What the so-called Devs have to say about this. Enough egg on face to make egg fried rice for the whole of China. 

 

owned 

Advanced and conclusive and smug mockery I mean, the next level up :) 

"Duke Nukem Forever Screen Shots, Artwork Rise From 3D Realms' Grave"

http://kotaku.com/5245883/duke-nukem-forever-screen-shots-artwork-rise-from-3d-realms-grave

Looks quite generic really. Some of the unreal-era shots had a lot more character! Not sure why they decided to go the realistic route, as Duke is essentially a cartoon character - I think something similar to the Team Fortress 2 style would have been cool as hell.

Shame to see these guys go, in a way. Will miss using them as the predictable butt of a joke, and always secretly longed to see some payoff one day. Those dirty cock-teases. 

That Daikatana actually made Duke it's bitch?? At least in virtue of being released and fairly fun. Which is somewhat better than being non-existent, surely.

That Kotaku page is ass-slow. I like the monsters and stuff. I don't know why they didn;t just make the damn game... 

Does this mean that Daikatana actually made Duke it's bitch??

Haha, yes it does. Sucks for the 3d Realms devs, who may now be legally raped by John Romero.

If that kotaku page is being gay, the art director has most of it up on his blog: http://talkinrealatyou.blogspot.com/

And fuck knows what the full story was with those guys. Not sure we'll ever know what took them so long. Did they accidentally spend the project manager's salary on ice cream? 

how many times was it completely restarted on new tech? :S 

3D Realms is mind boggling. Who knows what they were thinking. I have the feeling the upper brass there was living in 1996, in a 1996-era bubble as it were, thinking everyone would patiently wait for the sequel to Duke3D.

Someone there should just release everything they have via bittorrent, unless of course some lucky studio, closely associated with 3D Realms and has ties to the FPS genre, gets lucky enough to finish the project.

I mean, if Prey got released, and it was started 3 different times, surely there's hope for Duke 3D?

Oh wait, that's my crack-cocaine induced dementia talking. 

Duke4E, not Duke3D 

I still don't know whether to laugh or cry.

I'm really, really curious about what was going down in there. Let's hope for a Gamasutra post-mortem. 

Agree. Would be cool if the game could be passed to some developers rather than a bunch of WTFers. Still has potential IMO. As Zwiff says, Prey is a good example.