David Villarreal brought this up the other night before the Warzone and I nearly flipped out. It makes so much sense it’s not even funny. This is purely speculation and not a rumor or fact.
So it begins with Microsoft getting rights to distribut Duke Nukem on Xbox Live. Isn’t it kinda strange that they would put such a classic PC game on Xbox Live? They updated it, added Live support and now every gold user can have a blast from the past online.
On May 6th, 3D Realms closed their doors and their site went down. The site came back up a day later. The funny thing about the timing of the closing of 3D Realms is that it’s less than a month away from E3. What David told me completely blew my mind the other night. He thinks that Microsoft bought 3D Realms and that they are working on Duke Nukem Forever as an exclusive Xbox 360 title to be published by Take Two.
It just seems to make a whole lot of sense. Microsoft loves releasing classic versions of their games on Xbox Live before and sometimes even after an updated version is released. This could be one of Microsoft’s megaton’s at E3. Again, it’s just speculation but it would be really cool to see this happen. I’ve been waiting for Duke Nukem Forever since the game was announced.
It seems plausible and I said that when we discussed this but the fact that duke nukem is on XBLA doesn’t contribute to it imo. I say this because Doom, Ultimate MK and a bunch of other game are on XBLA exclusively and i doubt Id or Midway would release any next gen versions of those games exclusive.
it’d be cool if they tranformed the game into a TPS kinda like gow, imagine duke sticking his gun into those alien warthog’s stomach then emptying a full clip inside, while still holding him by throat then split him in two, after that stick his spine into another incoming warthog after shoting him in the knee and to finish him off he snap his neck then tears his head off and stick a grenade in then chucks it towards a couple of alien. doing all that while still giving his one liner.
but for that to work there need to be more alien on screen. if it’s not that then that game won’t interst me as FPS.
i was just about to post this on the site thank god i checked the site
The Duke Nukem Forever IP is own by Take Two so i don’t think buying 3drealm would be a good ideal. Duke Nukem Forever is not cancel yet they might put another team on it.
Yeah your completetly correct Take-Two still owns the publishing rights regardless of what happens to 3D Realms.