It's time to shut down studios and chew bubble gum... and I'm all out of gum!

[peewee_RotA]

WTF!!!!!
 

Duke Nukem Developer 3D Realms Shuts Down
http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/58519

I feel like the world has ended.

 



The weird thing is that we were scheduled to interview Joe Seigler tonight about the Dope Fish (one of the secret special guest interviews I occasionally hinted at) I guess I have to assume that it's been canceled.

[peewee_RotA]

Confirmed that the interview has been canceled.

Hopefuly it can be resumed at a later date, but for the time being here's wishing luck and the best for Joe S. and all the other members of the 3d Realms family.

[The Happy Friar]

please please please PLEASE shut down valve & revive 3d realms!  PLEASE!!!!!!

[quadz]

Just ran across this very bizarre "story" posted by a former Duke Nukem Forever developer:

http://gamingisstupid.com/2009/05/06/the-chair-story-revival/

[...] The plan was actually pretty simple… create the longest developed game in history that eventually is one of the greatest games ever made. [...] What Epic got out of this whole deal was basically this mystery project that is a constant “customer” of their engine, with people always speculating on whether it was updated to the newest one or not, etc. You would be surprised at how many licenses this has helped sell through the years.

No idea what parts of it are merely embellished or just outright fiction. Intersting read, though...

[peewee_RotA]

The Chair Story is fiction... just my attempt to have fun playing on the theories that DNF is some vast conspiracy.

Or... is it?
http://forums.3drealms.com/vb/showthread.php?t=35533&page=11

[Hi Ping Lee]

The development (or lack thereof) DNF will make for a good chapter in some future business management book.

HPL

[peewee_RotA]

There's a irc channel that some people are haunting in relation to this

irc.quakenet.org #3dr

[kren.Z]

The development (or lack thereof) DNF will make for a good chapter in some future business management book.

Exactly. This definitely reflects a lack of vision and strategy in the upper management. It's absolutely insane to fund the resources on a project that has an estimated 15 year development cycle (especially a game, where the shelf life is ~3-6 years). Revenue isn't always proportional to reward. This type of thinking only goes into corporate R&D where you are certain that the projects pushed into the consumer products will be game changing. Well, we are talking about business in the American economy...and we are in a recession, so we are slowly seeing the separation of the men from the boys.


ahhh yes....how i love capitalism. Only in America can you raise money at a $15 billion dollar valuation, wear flip-flops on charlie rose and get your ass kicked 4 years later by investors looking for some type of ROI. I love it.


Things are going to get very very interesting very very quickly for small businesses and large corporations alike. This is the time when legends are both created and destroyed.

[peewee_RotA]

Don't forget, we're hosting a fund raising event to benefit the employees displaced by 3DR.

Confirmed events:
Live internet radio broadcast and call in show (down loadable podcast available afterwards)
Website with all news to this point in easy to read format
Donation button provided to start a pool of funds to support the employees and families affected by 3DR's closing
Duke 3D full edition and Atomic addition tournaments
Live video feed


There's more yet to come. The date is not decided yet awaiting an official announcement of the closure from the 3DR owners. Please feel free to donate to Joe in the meantime. He is one of the beneficiaries and knows who to distribute funds too much better than we do.

I'd love to merge this event with the facebook group. This is a "pool all resources" kind of event and no stone will be left unturned in support for it.

This event will be brought by the TastySpleen Tastycast, Quake Unity, and the Tastyspleen.net community.

This is going to be entirely fan run and has no official 3DR involvement.

http://forums.3drealms.com/vb/showpost.php?p=870357&postcount=465

[[BTF]Sigma]

Just watched the gameplay footage that was released for DNF (oh god, the irony in naming it DNF) and it's pretty badass. Looked great.

[The Dreaming Dragon]

Technology galloped away with them. Originally they were going to use the Quake 2 engine (saw some screenshots long ago in PCGamer) but with each tech leap someone went OO OOO OO gotta do it with THAT engine. They started a decade too soon on it....here is some leaked video of what they had right now,and you can see that they were going for halflife like set piece battles...

http://www.videosift.com/video/Duke-Nukem-Forever-Leaked-Gameplay-Demo-Reel

[[BTF]Sigma]

Yeah that's the clip I watched. That stadium battle looks amazing. I remember there being screens for Prey on the old Duke3D disk using the Build engine. 10 years later that was released using the Doom3 engine and developed by Human Head studios.

I thought the PCGamer article...or was it PC Accelerator (r.i.p.) that showed screens from it with cops and giant tentacles was using the Unreal 2 engine.