detolicious

Back in Feb there was a little special about the waiting game of Duke Nukem Forever – Recently there was an interesting twist of events. Rumors said that 3D Realms was short of funds and had to shutdown operations as a whole. There was a big ‘Goodbye’ picture to be found on 3DRealms.com (most likely it is still there) – that only stirred up the discussions in the forums.

After a couple days of speculations and whatnot the head of 3DRealms finally answered the call of the community to comment on what was going on. But this only happened after court documents were spread all over the net which made clear that Take2 was npw sueing 3D Realms for not delivering a new Duke game.

The official hearing is on June 4th – and it seems that the papers were issued before 3D Realms had to let its dedevelopers go – however the statement was clearly that 3D Realms will keep operating as a company even though all developers were laid off. So far 20 millions were pumped into the development of Duke Nukem Forever and it is to be expected that somehow the work around DNF will continue. The restraint order was denied which Take 2 was requesting to prevent any potential data loss and have a current copy of the game and its status handed over. Thus 3DR would be free to work on the title if they can somehow get their hands on money to continue funding of the game.

In the official statement from 3D Realms, Take2 was accused of using ‘bully-tactics’ to aquire the IP (Intellectual Property) of Duke Nukem.

We’ll hear more once the hearing is over and something conclusive can be said – everything else is up for speculation.