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Get back to work, you slacker!
That is the question I ask of you. Gearbox already announced earlier in the year that they are already planning on making a brand-new Duke Nukem Game, “Duke Begins”, from the ground up, rebooting our hero’s story and focusing on his origins of BADASSERY.
This is great-fucking news for…
Around a hundred years prior to Duke Nukem Forever, Duke’s grandfather was issued an arm-wrestling challenge by a six-eyed alien. Not wanting to back down to some alien scum, he accepted the challenge and the arm-wrestle went on for days. Eventually, the alien could not overpower his might and…
If you alien scum haven’t heard the news yet, Gearbox Software (The SOBs who made Borderlands and soon to come Aliens: Colonial Marines) has announced that they plan on making their own Duke Nukem game based on Duke’s origins known as “Duke Begins”. Unlike DNF, Gearbox is now free to make this…
I know that you guys figured out that, when Gearbox acquired the franchise [Duke Nukem], we didn’t do it just to make sure we could all play Duke Nukem Forever, but because we wanted to make our own Duke game. Soon, we’ll talk about that, but not today.
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Gearbox President Randy Pitchford on the chances of a new Duke Nukem game. [Kotaku] (via secondplaythrough) |
While the cover-Duke is a bit less (for lack of a better word) Duke than the one we’ve come to know and love; it’s like that on purpose. Randy Pitchford (Co-founder and President of Gearbox Software and the man who brought Duke back) said himself that they were trying to go with a Duke that was a bit softer and was more about someone portraying Duke as opposed to the real thing like an actor in a big Hollywood movie. So, think twice before you throw douche around? (Especially when both pieces of art are from the same revitalization campaign.)
Cover art for the #4 issue of “Duke Nukem: Glorious Bastard” comic by Xermanico. Duke’s new comic deals with him time-traveling back to the World War II era to kick some Nazi / Alien ass. Hail to the king, baby!
