Sat, Oct 16, 2010 | 20:45 BST
Gearbox allows fan made Duke Nukem 3D revamp to be made with UR3
Gearbox has given permission to fans looking to develop a revamp of Duke Nukem 3D using Unreal Engine 3.
According to a post over on the official Gearbox forums, the independently developed game is being called Duke Nukem: Next-Gen as a placeholder, and it’s a “re-vision of Duke Nukem 3D” should it have been made today.
Once finished, it will include both a single-player and multiplayer campaign for free.
It all started with “fresch” creating a test map and posting screenshots on the Gearbox forums. The creator contacted 3D Realms’ George Brussard, Scott Miller and PJ Putnam, the vice president and general counsel of Gearbox.
The result was Gearbox being interested enough to offer the creator a personal non-commercial license to Duke Nukem in order to complete the project.
The team still has quite a bit of work ahead of them, but you can check out what it has done so far in the video below.
No date on it yet, but Duke Nukem Forever is out next year on PC, PS3, and Xbox 360.
Thanks, BigDownload.
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Posted in: 2K, Action, PC
Tags: Duke nukem, duke nukem 3d, gearbox
8 comments
#1
onlineatron
16/10/10, 8:53 pm
Duke Nukem Forever was fantastic when I played it in London, the other week, after winning the competition.
I’m so fucking glad I remembered to look at the competition winners and attended the preview event… Imagine if I hadn’t I would have felt like a complete fool.
OH WAIT!!
#2
DuckOfDestiny
16/10/10, 10:40 pm
@ onlineatron:
Did you not get to go?
That’s a damn shame if didn’t, it was fucking great, free bar as well, pity I wasn’t able stay long though.
#3
onlineatron
16/10/10, 11:36 pm
No
I never thought i’d win so didn’t go back and look for the winners.
#4
freedoms_stain
17/10/10, 12:18 am
Wonder if it’ll turn out like Half-Life Black Mesa. Endless project without a product.
#5
KrazyKraut
17/10/10, 2:53 am
nice to hear that they allow it. Not like Nintendo or Square Enix.
#6
2plus2equals5
17/10/10, 12:29 pm
Beautiful music
#7
Isaaclarke37
17/10/10, 10:00 pm
Looks cool.
#8
Blerk
18/10/10, 8:45 am
Good on them, nice to see license holders helping the fan games out for a change rather than stomping on them.
Also: onlineatron, nooooooo! /o\