Wired: Learn to Let Go: How Success Killed Duke Nukem

[BlackLantern]

the death of Duke Nukem

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/fail_duke_nukem/all/1

 

[Spidey-Bat]

What's Duke Nukem?

 

[Spider-X]

What's a Nukem?

 

[StrainedEyes]

Come get some.

 

[BlackLantern]

What's Duke Nukem?

a buzz cutted blonde man who shoots people and likes strippers

 

[[A]]

Come get some.

Death before Disco!

 

[BlackLantern]

watch some company like EA snatch it up, polish it off and put out an awesome 3rd person shooter

with boobies

 

[Ion Kenshin]

I read this article yesterday. This guy could have had something big on his hands.

 

[[A]]

Really interesting article thanks for the link

 

[BlackLantern]

welcome...Wired is a good magazine and there is a least one great article in each issue

 

[[A]]

I'm gonna check the site more often now

 

[BlackLantern]

they had a great article a couple years ago about the rise and fall of the Gizmondo

 

[[A]]

you lost me there, pal

 

[BlackLantern]

it was supposed to be the next great handheld device, the guy who created it turned out to be a con man/career criminal

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.10/gizmondo.html

its 6 pages, but a fantastic read

 

[Ion Kenshin]

I subscribe to the mag so it comes to my house. I lvoe getting it. There are always some really good stories in there.

 

[BlackLantern]

Ill be subscribing to it this year

 

[Ion Kenshin]

nice

 

[BlackLantern]

I wonder what these guys at 3d Realms felt when the end officially came....you've spent years ,years on this one game with what to show for it? a few screenshots and a wallpaper

 

[Ion Kenshin]

Yea that kind of blows. I doubt that guy will get another job in gaming or be taken seriously ever again. Even if he managed to start another company.