Take-Two Sues Duke Nukem Forever Developer
According to a blurb over at Bloomberg, Take-Two Interactive Software, which makes the heralded Grand Theft Auto series of video games, has sued Apogee Software's 3D Realms over the "failed development of a sequel to Duke Nukem." You see, Take-Two is the owner of the publishing rights to the game, and it is asserting that Apogee breached an agreement to "design the latest installment of Duke Nukem." Amazingly, Duke Nukem Forever was "in development" since 1997 -- twelve whole years! -- and Take-Two has obviously waited long enough for the vaporware to become software.
Rather than following through on the supposed deal, 3D Realms closed up shop for good this month, thus ending all hopes of the sequel ever hitting store shelves. Frankly, the patience shown by Take-Two is downright commendable -- if it were us, we would've probably lit the fire under these guys and gals years ago. In a statement from the plaintiff, Take-Two said that "Apogee continually delayed the completion date for the Duke Nukem Forever," and that "Apogee repeatedly assured Take-Two and the video-gaming community that it was diligently working toward competing development of the PC Version of the Duke Nukem Forever." Is it too cheap of a shot to say that the game could've best been titled Duke Nukem Never?
For those wondering why Take-Two would bother after a dozen years, chew on this: in 2000, it nailed down an agreement with Apogee and paid out $12 million for publishing rights to the forthcoming game, and in 2007 the two firms entered into yet another agreement. Yeah, if you just saw $12 million go up in flames after being patience for 12 whole years, you'd probably be up in arms as well.
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Why doesn't Take-Two just take this project on themselves and finish it? And how does a game stay in development for 12 years and never get finished??? Were they just NOT doing anything? That's ridiculous. |
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hmm I think that's because Take 2 is a publishing company, they don't make games. GTA was made by Rockstar, not Take 2. They can't just take the software and develop it themselves. |
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But they could move it around to somewhere that could get it finished. |
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I feel like a fool for thinking we had heard the last of Duke Nukem Forever. Now there will probably be rumors of another developer picking it up and this endless saga will continue. I'm just going to get some bubble gum and ignore it. |
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Why didnt they do this 5 years ago? Thats what I wanna know. |
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I want to know who thought the game would be good? I never expected it to be and forgot about it, until you guys mentioned it. I assume they thought so many people would buy it in the end, which is why they waited. |
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Heh, so the big joke is actually legitimately hurting Take Two. I guess back in 2000 it was actually probably that this game would come out. But a new agreement in 2007 makes me wonder why they thought it would ever be released. |
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