'And if it does well, then start making more Duke adventures while also expanding the universe with new characters.Duke Nukem Forever 2001 is significantly more developed and closer to the final 2011 release than the 1996 Duke Nukem Forever side-scroller ⁠- which is not even a direct antecessor of this prototype ⁠- or the 1998 build shown in an E3 trailer from that year. 'It seems like the obvious move would be to recreate Duke Nukem 3D using Unreal 5,' he said. Would it have ever made Warframe? Would Duke Nukem still be a popular series today? And would that have made the world better or worse?Īlthough Miller doesn't consider the current incarnation of 3D Realms to be the true inheritor of the Apogee lineage (the name is currently owned by Embracer Group, which also owns Gearbox), he says he hopes that Duke will come back under his new owners someday. The beef aside, I'm curious to know what would have happened if Digital Extremes had actually taken over and completed Duke Nukem Forever in the mid-2000s. He declined to clarify, and the present-day Apogee Entertainment has yet to respond to a request for a response from Miller.īefore Miller's blog post, Broussard confirmed that the leaked Duke Nukem Forever footage is real, but said that he's 'not really interested in talking about it or retreading a painful past.'Ī mildly interesting detail (already known, but not by me) in Miller's post is that developer Digital Extremes was, according to him, eager to take over development of Duke Nukem Forever way back in 2004, but the idea was allegedly 'shot down' by others at 3D Realms.

However, Gearbox was already in control of Duke Nukem before the first 3D Realms lawsuit I'm aware of, so it's not clear what Broussard means. Broussard claims that Miller is the one to blame for Apogee's 2010 sale of the Duke Nukem rights to Gearbox, pointing to the lawsuits between the companies, of which there were a few.

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