The legend that is Duke Nukem Forever is now available in stores in South Africa, the UK and Europe, for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC, bringing to an end fifteen years of development hell!

Thanks to the efforts of Gearbox Software and 2K Games, as well as the continued contributions of the game’s long-time steward George Broussard, a brand new over-the-top first-person shooter has arrived for us all to enjoy!

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Following the awesome news that Duke Nukem Forever will indeed see the light of day thanks to the development efforts of Gearbox Software (Borderlands, Brothers in Arms), it’s additionally been announced that Gearbox has acquired the full intellectual property rights to the Duke Nukem brand.

This includes Duke Nukem Forever and “all future projects in a cooperative deal made with 3D Realms.”

President of Gearbox, Randy Pitchford spoke about the significance of Duke Nukem to him and his studio:

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[Update 2] Added extreme shaky cam footage of people playing Duke Nukem Forever at PAX Prime, below: [End of Update 2]

[Update 1] More information emerging from PAX Prime regarding Duke Nukem Forever added a little further below. [End of Update 1]

The rumours were true! Gearbox Software will indeed complete development on 3D Realms’ Duke Nukem Forever, and pick up where that studio left off.

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Welcome to… ‘The Rumour Zone.’

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It appears as though 3D Realms and publishing duo Take-Two/2K Games have both decided to drop the on-going lawsuit involving the embattled independent developer’s long-in-development first-person shooter, Duke Nukem Forever.

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A whole truckload of new screenshots for the currently defunct Duke Nukem Forever has emerged from the ether, while a new gameplay video has also come to the surface to give would-be gamers a glimpse of what 3D Realms were cooking up, before the studio ran into financial difficulties and was forced to let its staff go.

Plans are still afoot to complete Duke Nukem Forever, if 3D Realms’ George Broussard and Scott Miller have anything to say about it, but until the pair’s legal wrangling with Take-Two is over, they can’t utter a word.

For now, you can enjoy a gameplay video and some ‘released’ screenshots from undeterminable eras of development on Duke Nukem Forever, showing areas, scenarios and gameplay that, in my mind, would have easily found an audience in amongst other big name first-person shooters today.

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