Duke Nukem Forever gone, but a new ‘Duke Begins’
June 22, 2009 by Ruibo
Duke Nukem Forever may be buried in the graves, at least for now but there is a new Duke title in development known as ‘Duke Begins’ which has been revealed in a court document in the on-going lawsuit of 3D Realms (legal name Apogee) and Take-Two.
On October 22, 2007, Apogee, Take-Two, and 2K Games entered into an agreement in which Apogee granted 2K Games the exclusive right to develop and publish a new videogame based upon Apogee’s Duke Nukem franchise… The new game was given the working title of “Duke Begins” and is not the same game as the DNF game…
The original development schedule for the Duke Begins game provided that the game was to be completed and commercially released by mid-2010…
Take Two and/or its subsidiary 2K Games halted or otherwise cancelled all development work by the third-party game developer on the Duke Begins game in April 2009… without Apogee’s approval or consent…
When Apogee confronted Take-Two and 2K Games about the… cancellation of the Duke Begins development work… Take-Two and 2K Games simply denied it… Take-Two and 2K Games are taking such actions with a goal of pressuring Apogee to sell the Duke Nukem franchise rights to Take-Two for less than their true value.
According to GamePolitics, ‘Duke Begin’s is now currently under development with 2K Games, a subsidiary of Take-Two. Apogees 20 page court filing can be found here in pdf.
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