Duke Nukem Forever will be released in 2011

Today at the Seattle-based annual PAX (Penny Arcade Expo) festival , rumors have been confirmed since mid-August that the development of the longest-running game in the world, Duke Nukem Forever, has been transferred to Gearbox Software . A new presentation of the game was shown at a closed presentation, and PAX visitors were given the opportunity to play a working fifteen-minute demo on Xbox 360 controllers. The

lucky ones who tested the demo write that the gameplay and the spirit of the game as a whole remained similar to Duke Nukem 3DHowever, such fashionable things as health regeneration, help with aiming (obviously for consoles) and aiming with zoom with a left trigger appeared. The videos on youtube also show that the game has a lot of blood and special effects, like depth of field.

Gearbox Software CEO Randy Pitchford said the creator of the series, 3D Realms , handed them the Duke Nukem Forever for revision at the end of 2009. He promised that the game will definitely be released in 2011, but he was afraid to name the exact release dates. Duke Nukem Forever will be released on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 and will have a single-pass mode and multiplayer.

The company Gearbox Software is known for addons to-Life of Half Opposing the Force and Blue Shift, a series Brothers in Arms and the last of Borderlands , and he Randy Pitchford once worked on Duke Nukem 3Dwithin the walls of 3D Realms , so you don’t have to worry about the quality of the final product. In addition, according to Pitchford himself, most of the game was already ready, they just refine and polish. And yes, the voice of Duke Nyukem is still the same Jon St. John .

In this topic of the Gearbox forum, people collect photos and videos from the event, here are just a couple of them demonstrating the gameplay:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bHP7AWcTEA&feature=player_embedded


The official site of Duke Nukem Forever is also open .