If you thought this year's Duke Nukem Forever implosion was the end of the cigar-chewing meathead, you'd be wrong. 3D Realms boss Scott Miller has said there's a lot of Duke still to come.
"The next few years should see a strong resurgence in Duke," Miller told print mag, Gamesauce (thanks Shack). "There are numerous other Duke games in various stages of development, several due out this year. We are definitely looking to bring Duke into casual gaming spaces, plus there are other major Duke games in production. Almost all of these [projects] are unannounced."
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1:11Six years of silence has finally been broken
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Miller also suggested that the Duke Nukem Forever project isn't dead in the water. He said "we've never said that Duke Nukem Forever has ceased development," adding "yes, we released the internal team, but that doesn't correlate to the demise of the project."
And plans for a Duke movie are still afoot: "The Duke film is making steady progress...we're developing a much more complete storyverse for Duke, filling out all of the details we've left to the imagination in the games.
So how did 3D Realms manage to last so long without releasing any games? Miller explained, "Duke Nukem 3D was made for $300,000, and we made back 25 times our investment--not to mention all of the third-party Duke console games that sold well. Plus, we made a killing with Wolfenstein 3D. And we made the biggest killing on Max Payne! We made $30 million in royalties on that game (off of a $2.5 million investment), plus another $48 million selling the IP to our publisher. Oh, and we were also part owners of Gathering of Developers when that was sold to Take2. And finally, we have been pretty lucky with other investments, both in the stock market and in other studios."
This is quite ironic, We wait years and years for a Duke Nukem Game and it looks like we could be hit with a couple of them within a short timescale. We know that there are at least 2 Dev houses working on DN Games with a third being spoken of us well.
From the leaked screenshots and what not of Duke Nukem Forever It looked really good (if these are real, who knows?), but lets continue the longest running joke in Gaming with a smile on our faces, what would we do without a new Duke story every year ?
"in the next few years"? What about the LAST few years? There must be assets kicking around for it, textures, models and storyboards that can be modified to fit whatever they plan on doing.
And I'm not even touching the idea of a "casual" Duke game.
have you been to the apogee website lately? Its basically a garage sale/bargain basement. they're being sued lots of money for loss of earnings and i get the feeling that if its not nailed down, its probably for sale...
Scott Miller has mega bucks that I'm sure - but all i can see apogee doing for the forseeable future is iphone duke nukem shovelware - at least its going back to its roots tho - 2d 8bit so so...
i wouldn't be surprised if the IP is eventually sold....as for a movie....is dolph lungren still buff?
have you been to the apogee website lately? Its basically a garage sale/bargain basement. they're being sued lots of money for loss of earnings and i get the feeling that if its not nailed down, its probably for sale...
Scott Miller has mega bucks that I'm sure - but all i can see apogee doing for the forseeable future is iphone duke nukem shovelware - at least its going back to its roots tho - 2d 8bit so so...
i wouldn't be surprised if the IP is eventually sold....as for a movie....is dolph lungren still buff?
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