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This past week, an amazing piece of news emerged: The long-suffering, oft-delayed, 12-years in the making first-person shooter Duke Nukem Forever will in fact see the light of day thanks to Gearbox Software (Borderlands, Brothers in Arms).
The studio struck a deal with Duke Nukem franchise creators and developers 3D Realms and has not only picked up where that company left off on Duke Nukem Forever, aiming to deliver a completed game sometime in 2011, but Gearbox has also acquired the intellectual property rights to the brand as well.
We’re all still in shock and awe after last week’s surprise revelation that Gearbox Software will complete development of 3D Realm’s Duke Nukem Forever. Now prepare yourself for another one with news from 2K Games that Duke Nukem Forever will be available for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC in 2011.
[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.
Take-Two recently released financial results for its third fiscal quarter ending July 31st, and things are looking positive at the house Grand Theft Auto built, as a new challenger emerges to claim the right to be called Take-Two’s crown jewel.
This comes as the publisher announced another delay for the long-in-development LA Noire, while also speaking on the market reception of Mafia II.
Join us now as we journey into a world of magic and whimsy. A land jostling and heated with madness and chaos. A kingdom twisted and warped by regurgitated lies, half-truths and mirrored reality, all moulded into a lonesome form that would send you on a voyage of insanity with a single blink of its crusted eye.
Welcome to… ‘The Rumour Zone.’
The question has long lingered on the lips of philosophers, historians, archaeologists, palaeontologists, hairdressers and chiropodists, and has stumped and stymied even the greatest minds that these varied but connected areas of study have to offer.
Mathematicians and scientists are no help either. The question is simple:
“What is Project Icarus?”
Don’t think about the question for too long, though, because you’ll sooner go insane than discover the truth.
Come August 11th, however, Irrational Games may just provide the answer to the question, sending us all into raving fits of lunacy.
Developer of the acclaimed Civilization series of strategy games, Firaxis Games, has been affected by a round of staff layoffs, as 20 members of the 130-strong team leave the studio.
Firaxis owner Take-Two said that the cuts were made to “maximise the overall performance of the studio,” and assured fans that work on neither the upcoming Civilisation V, nor the in-development Civilisation Facebook game, would be affected by the layoffs:
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.
Take-Two has released financial results for the its fiscal second quarter ending April 30, revealing profits of $16.9 million (up from a loss of $10.4 million during the same period last year) on sales of $268 million (up 54% compared to the same quarter last year).
Sales were driven by impressive and continued market performance by Bioshock 2, Major League Baseball 2K10 and GTA: Episodes From Liberty City on PlayStation 3.
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.
Steve Perlman, founder and CEO of the cloud computing online game delivery service Onlive, has posted on the official Onlive blog to reveal that on June 17th, the ambitious technology “will be available for users in the 48 contiguous United States!”
This milestone, Perlman writes, will be achieved after “almost 8 years of development, thousands of partner meetings, millions of lines of code, and an uncountable number of all-nighters,” and will not-coincidentally occur over the week of this year’s E3 games and technology expo.
“Everyone here at OnLive is just incredibly excited about this milestone,” says Perlman. “It’s the realization of a dream that we knew would be a huge undertaking, but also one that would change everything.”
Take-Two Interactive has released its financial report for the publisher’s first fiscal quarter of 2010 ending January 31st, which saw net revenue rise, net losses fall, and restructuring efforts paying off.
During Take-Two Interactive’s quarterly financial report it was revealed that the original Bioshock has now sold over 4 million units, with recent sales driven by both the release of the sequel, Bioshock 2, and digital download promotions for both games.
Take-Two Interactive CEO Ben Feder commented that the franchise has now sold a combined seven million units, as Bioshock 2 has so far shipped three million copies worldwide.
Catalogue sales of Bioshock, Feder said, were affected by Bioshock 2:
Take-Two Interactive recently let the word out that two of their highly anticipated games, the Wild West open-world shooter Red Dead Redemption, and the mobster-themed open-world shooter Mafia II, have both been delayed.
While Red Dead Redemption now has a new set in stone release date, Mafia II doesn’t, but the publisher promises stockholders (and gamers!), that it won’t slip past October 31st this year… although we’ve heard that song before.
Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two has just announced that three of its board members are to stand down from their current positions, to be replaced at the request of certain stockholders, including Carl Icahn who holds approximately 11.3 percent of the company’s shares.
The three members to be relieved of their positions on the board are CEO Ben Feder, Grover C. Brown, Esq. and John F. Levy, none of whom will stand for re-election. Feder will, however, remain on as CEO of the company.
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