As rumoured yesterday, 2K have confirmed that they and Gearbox software have been working on finishing up Duke Nukem Forever, and that it will be shipping next year for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3:

“Hail to the king, baby! It's unbelievable, it kicks ass and it's totally going to happen!” said Randy Pitchford, president of Gearbox Software, "Gearbox has enabled die-hard key Duke Nukem franchise builders and skilled veteran game makers to stand together and deliver. All gamers deserve a happy ending and after all of us gamers feeling the full range of emotions about Duke Nukem Forever, I am thrilled to be in a position with the trust, power and means to make it happen. Am I crazy? Balls of steel, baby, balls of steel!”

A single new image accompanies the release, which you can check out here.

No doubt more information will be made available; apparently they are going to have a playable demo available at PAX (which is, I believe, the first time the game has been made playable for the public in all its years of development). There's also an interview with Randy Pitchford from Gearbox where it is mentioned that they're currently in the polishing phase, which indicates that the bulk of the game is finally finished.

so 13 years later eh... im pretty sure everybody got over Duke a LONG time ago -_-

Obligatory:

It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum... and I'm all out of gum.

MUAHAHAHAH!

it better be good

so 13 years later eh... im pretty sure everybody got over Duke a LONG time ago -_-

this is exactly what i was thinking.

OMG let it R.I.P.

They be trolling.

etc etc

so 13 years later eh... im pretty sure everybody got over Duke a LONG time ago -_-

Bulls***, what are you under 20? None of the fans are over it yet.

This has made my month, marvellous news absolutely marvellous.

So 13 years of hype and development. It would want to be the most awesome game ever!

that is a pretty cool pic

And I'm all outta gum, did duke chew hubba hubba gum I forget now

Heh I like how on the ausgamers duke screenshot page you can switch to the screenshots of the game in 1999

Broussard seems pretty happy about it, but weeting from home watching the live stream, not even at the reveal. Kind of odd that whatever deal has eventuated has seemingly left him and Miller out of the final development process considering how much of their lives must have been sunk into this. Guess whatever final pay day they've settled on is pretty damn good.

After a bit more of a look around, it seems like there's a bit more to announce in that respect. Looks like a few of the ex 3drealms guys have ended up over at gearbox. There a panel on the final day of PAX that will supposedly explain more and includes John St John (voice of duke).

Scott Miller was at PAX and Joe Seigler (3d realms community manager) is now a moderator over on the gearbox forums with the title "Duke Community Manager'.

All the duke forums at 3drealms have been closed and point to gearbox forums.

hail to the king baby!

I'll be playing it!!

The 'single' imagine looks cool...

I'm not suprised George Broussard has been left out, from some of the post mortems I read when 3d realms and DNF originally went under, it sounds like the 13 years of development with no end product to show was pretty much entirely his fault.

Hardly play any games these days but I will be playing this whenever it comes out....

hands-on preview at shacknews

The demo opened up with Duke relieving himself at a urinal and you find Duke in a football stadium. After some cool scripted events following soldiers, Duke finds himself up against the Cycloid Emperor from Duke Nukem 3D. Devastator in hand, Duke defeats the boss and kicks his eye through the uprights. Credits roll and the camera pulls back to find that Duke was playing the game on a wall-mounted TV, while two women--ahem--take care of him.

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when it's done

and that it will be shipping next year for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3:

& yet the boy cried "Wolf" once more...

This will be banned in Australia I reckon. If the game is anything like that trailer that was described anyway.

Press left for beer!

Link to gallery

http://i.imgur.com/VV5FB.jpg

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way over it.

$ shake it baby $

I'll call it now: This will be on Steam and subject to a horrendous amount of Aussie Tax. Mind you that's just the same as saying the sun will come up tomorrow, but still.

lol operation cock block

This springs to mind:

They should just announce pre-orders from today. There'd be enough retards out there who would go for that.

I'll call it now: This will be on Steam and subject to a horrendous amount of Aussie Tax. Mind you that's just the same as saying the sun will come up tomorrow, but still.

Heh, correct, assuming that it's actually released. However DNF actually being released is at the polar opposite end of the certainty spectrum to the sun coming up tomorrow.

They should just announce pre-orders from today. There'd be enough retards out there who would go for that.

Hell, they're taking pre-orders for Natural Selection 2 so why not? I wonder if any bookies have odds on which one will come out first, if either, at all.

can watch some gameplay vids at gametrailers

http://www.gametrailers.com/game/duke-nukem-forever/360


having to choose which weapons to carry is lame. :(

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Hell, they're taking pre-orders for Natural Selection 2 so why not? I wonder if any bookies have odds on which one will come out first, if either, at all.

The "pre-order" is the modern angel venture investor. Why do you need an investor to fund your development when your idea is so well known in the gaming community you can just say "pre-order!" and the fans will swoop holding fistfuls of cash!?

Ahh Duke3D. Brings back memories of cutting school in year 11/12, going back to my place where we'd have our 4 pc's set up in my lounge and into the kitchen linked up with bnc for some FFA or 2 on 2action. Every now and then someone would bump the cable and you'd lose connection and you were like "OMG wiggle the cable! wiggle the cable!"

Good times. Bring on the new Duke.

Every now and then someone would bump the cable and you'd lose connection and you were like "OMG wiggle the cable! wiggle the cable!"

Haha, or when someone would have to leave and you'd have to wait while the unplugged and terminated the link again.

can watch some gameplay vids at gametrailers

http://www.gametrailers.com/game/duke-nukem-forever/360

Interesting... Half of the kids playing in those trailers didn't even look like they would have been born when Duke3D was out :)

The gameplay looked fairly standard, Guess we'll have to see what they do with it. Part of Dukes biggest selling points oh so long ago was that it was a step up from doom in the graphics, level, movement department.

Then Quake came out with true polygon 3D instead of sprites.
Or my memory on the time line could be all wrong.

So what engine are they on this time around? lol

Haha, or when someone would have to leave and you'd have to wait while the unplugged and terminated the link again.

I played Duked 3D with my mate over modem.

I was really annoyed whenever someone at home wanted to use the phone, and I hated anyone that called because it disconnected our game :)

Mannnnn 1996 it has been a while since 3D. Trainspotting was the sickest movie ever, 9/11 was a random date, and the backstreet boys were not back yet.

I wont be surprised if it is just your generic FPS game with the iconic duke. A lot has changed since D3D.

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i want to get excited.
ive been let down before.




nah, im excited !!!!!

LOL

What's the bet it will be so average. Just like most shooters these days.

If it has those shrinko ray things and ice guns then it will be above average.

shrink ray is in. not sure about freeze ray though

There's a little bird that lives around my place. He often seeks shelter on my balcony and will even venture inside to peck around the kitchen for crumbs. We can be sitting there on the couch watching TV, and he'll just hop on in through the door, strut past us and have a look in the kitchen. We really want a pet, but can't have one due to body corporate by-laws, so we're going to get little food and water bowls made up for the bird. The bird comes and goes of his own volition, so it's not like we have actively acquired and kept a pet.

We call him Duke. This is because his markings look like he's wearing a little tuxedo. And he has BALLS OF STEEL.

True story.

it will have to be cool as s*** to make an impact ... because we've been waiting TOO LONG :)

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/748-Duke-Nukem-Forever

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congrats flatbeat, I already posted that, complete with an embed and everything.

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yeah flatbeat , thanks for playing :)

f*** yer i hope it has all the orignal guns + new ones.

all it needs to win is:

Awesome graphics, reasonable story, lots of titty girls and lots of blood/dismembered body parts

I dont know what to say????

Not gonna happen dude, atleast, i don't think so. It seems this game should have been out in around 2004. When you think about it, it's still only running a "Heavily Modified" Unreal 2 engine.

But this doesn't worry me, i've been waiting for this game as long as i can remember and it better well be out soon.

Duke Nukem Forever has been delayed till an unspecified time so that assets can be converted to Valve's Source engine

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Duke Nukem Forever has been delayed till an unspecified time so that assets can be converted to Valve's Source engine

that sounds like a rumour; your link is busted so I can't verify the source, but I have not heard anything about this (unless it was just revealed over the weekend)

I'm suprised they aren't bumping it to Unreal engine 3, I guess maybe they just want to get it out instead of spending even more time on a game with such a sordid history, but if its already using a modified Unreal 2 engine, the jump to 3 might not be so difficult.

sigh, was trying to link this but failed.

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

fuken hell their not floggin a dead horse anymore their floggin ashes.talk about not being able to let it go.this has gotta be the worst case of pc gaming ever.

fuken hell their not floggin a dead horse anymore their floggin ashes.

and a phoenix will rise from those ashes.


:P

fuken hell their not floggin a dead horse anymore their floggin ashes.talk about not being able to let it go.this has gotta be the worst case of pc gaming ever.

^ Spelling and grammar fail.

Considering the amount of publicity this game has garnered over the decade and this year, I'm pretty sure this game will make its publisher a tidy profit.

Be interesting to see if its gonna be a good game or not. Expectations are high but will probably be shattered which seems to be the trend at the moment for me with games.

Hangin for a new decent game to come out.

13yrs in development

ppl are going to expect some sort of amazing quality game and it will get ripped to shreds when it comes out with flaw after flaw