Kotaku has a (currently broken) link to the
3D Realms forums. A post from George Broussard reads as follows:
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"Last Saturday we had our annual company Christmas party. It was a lot of fun as usual but it featured one special surprise. It turns out that several people had been secretly working late nights and into the wee hours of the morning preparing a special video for those at the party. They created a short teaser for Duke Nukem Forever.
After seeing the teaser we thought it was something we should share with all of you and while it's just a teaser, rest assured more is coming.
Tomorrow, Wednesday the 19th, around noon CST, we will release the first teaser trailer from Duke Nukem Forever. To tide you over until then, here is a screen shot taken from the teaser.
Thank you for being fans of the game and for your continued patience.
I'd like to thank the people on the team that worked so hard to create this teaser and the friends of 3DR that helped create it (Jeremy Soule and Julian Soule, Frank Bry, Jason Evigan and of course, Jon St. John)."
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Let the disappointment begin!
After ten years I'm ready to take what I can get. If you ask them to delay it for better graphics they'll switch engines five more times and be looking at another ten years in development. Just let the damn game come out.
Come and get some!
That doesn't look pre-rendered to me. Plenty of games look that good and better that are already released. I definitely see imperfect textures and aliasing.
FYI, I resized that image. In MSPaint.
I know, I'm talking about the original that Kotaku posted.
Also may I add that the lighting would be much better.
In about another 2-3 decades.
(secretly hopes that Duke Nukem will return with long, flowing locks a'la Superman Post-Mortem)