Easter Sunday
“I nearly saw the light of day… Yeah, right!”
The sob story over Duke Nukem Forever continues as some guy named Jason Bergman, formerly at publisher Take-Two, and now Bethesda Softworks, posted on twitter recently that the game should have gone gold this month if all had gone according to plan. And it should have happened on April 1st, 2010: April Fool’s Day. It wasn’t a joke either.
“MOMENT OF SILENCE PLEASE: by the 3DR/TTWO development schedule, April 1st, 2010 was supposed to be the day Duke Nukem Forever went gold.” [1]
He went on to say that the planned date was "totally intentional. It was going to be hilarious." It’s been explained that when a game goes gold, it means that “development has been completed and the game is ready to be duplicated for distribution.” [2]
And this further means that the game would have been officially released later on in the year, and possibly arrived in Q2, 2010.
Jason was later asked to confirm this tweet to which he replied:
“I wholeheartedly believe that had things gone differently, they would have made that date.”
This is assuming that Take-Two hadn’t sued 3D Realms, and hadn’t let go of the DNF development team.
“Would’a, Could’a, Should’a” – but didn’t. And even though that date was supposedly the date, you mark my words that it would have been delayed again, and again, and again. Part of me sometimes thinks that it was justified putting DNF out of its misery, even though I hate to say it.
To think it was on April Fool’s Day last year that I put up a fake news piece that talked about DNF being cancelled. And it came true a month later, in May 2009.
Some people still think that 3D Realms as a company shut down last year, but this is incorrect. The team working on DNF was let go. The company itself is still around, and is still going through a legal battle with Take-Two.
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Source: [1] twitter [2] Variety.com
Duke Nukem Forever’s Gone Gold… or Should Have Anyway
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