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For six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul

Friday, September 10, 2004

Duke4 NOT Using DOOM3 Tech

ShackNews: "Having sat through the torture of a Take2 investor meeting audio file earlier today one of the more interesting things that came up was a Take2 employee having a few things to say about Duke Nukem Forever in development over at 3DRealms. There was this one zinger by Rich Roedel, the CEO of Take2: '...they are using the DOOM3 technology now which is finished.' This was a simple mistake by Rich that just snowballed a little... So since it seems that this was picked up elsewhere as factual we've got an official statement from 3DRealms to clear things up. Here ya go: 'I guess I need to clear up some confusion. We are not using the Doom 3 engine for Duke Nukem Forever. That said, I'd also like to take a moment to point out something about the gaming press. Very few people ever even try to contact you for fact checking, like Gamespot did. When they ran the story about the engine change, they ended it with 'Attempts to contact 3D Realms for comment were unsuccessful as of press time.' The news story was posted 35 minutes after I received an e-mail from them requesting confirmation. Gamespot, I apologize. Your e-mail came in at 10:04pm and I was working elsewhere in the building. I will try to be more accessible to you in the future." There you go."

There you go? Not really. They're still working on Duke Nukem Forever? Seriously?

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