George Broussard of 3D Realms issued a statement to clear up some misunderstandings in light of all the Duke Nukem Forever troubles.
First, 3D Realms isn't dead! They're still alive, but they did have to let go the Duke Nukem Forever development team on May 6 due to lack of funding. 3D Realms still owns the rights to the Duke Nukem franchise and Take-Two retains publishing rights for Duke Nukem Forever.
George then goes on to talk about Take-Two's lawsuit against them:
Take-Two never paid 3DR advances or any signing bonus or any other funds related to DNF, up until July 2008, at which time they paid $2.5m in connection with another agreement for an unannounced game. This is the sum total Take-Two has paid 3DR in connection with DNF. Take-Two claims that they paid $12m to GT Interactive/Infogrames to acquire the publishing rights for the DNF game. To be clear, 3DR was not a party to that transaction and did not receive any money from it. When the DNF game was originally signed with GT Interactive in 1998, GT paid 3DR a $400,000 signing bonus. Up until July 2008, this was the only publisher money we received for the DNF game. Meanwhile, 3DR put over $20m into the production of DNF.
It's amazing how George Broussard is so candid about the whole failed negotiation dealings amidst the lawsuit. Take-Two seemingly tried to bully 3D Realms into taking a really horrible deal. It's definitely worth your time to read the entire statement over on GameSlice.
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4:00 AM on 05.19.2009
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Maybe next christmas, or in twenty years even. AT some point a game called Duke Nukem Forever will come out.
Also, cocks.
So DNF is probably dead - but the Duke Nukem franchise itself might not be. Investors might be willing to make another Duke Nukem game, they just won't call it Duke Nukem Forever, and they are unlikely to use any of the content already generated.
DNF is a game that has already died many times - it's been scrapped, restarted, scrapped again, re-modeled, re-touched, re-designed, re-done so many times over, that it's really about 5 failed games instead of just one. And that, is not good news for any investor. If I had money (and I don't) I would be staying far, far, far, far, far, can't-even-touch-it-with-a-hundred-foot-pole, far away
dont care forever
*shoots self for political joke*
So pretty much they made fans wait, only to say "Fuck It" at the last second? Not to mention that they invested 20 Million into this thing? Boy, these dudes at 3D Realms are the biggest douche bags in the video game business. Without the DNF development team how do they expect to get this game released? Whatever, I guess some things were never meant to happen.
Yes, because LEGALLY they can't release it even if they want to. Take-Two hold the publishing rights.