Taking a cue from their own infamous franchise, Duke Nukem developers 3D Realms, who supposedly recently went out of business, has stated that they aren’t quite so inclined to die off. The company let many of their employees go recently, removing most everyone who had been working on Duke Nukem Forever. However, the studio claims that they are attempting to regroup the company after losing their funding, squarely blaming Take-Two. They also claim to retain the Duken Nukem franchise, although Take-Two does retain the rights to publish Duke Nukem Forever, and seem to intend on creating games within the franchise.
According to 3D Realms, the $12 million that Take-Two is suing the company for is baseless. They claim that while Take-Two may have paid that much to get the rights to publish the game, 3D realms never saw any funding from them until July of 2008, which totaled a much smaller $2.5 million. That is compared to the $20 million 3D Realms claims to have put into the project.
Duke Nukem Forever, indeed.
