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Post by trog @ 12:47am 16/05/09 | 9 Comments
In an interesting, but perhaps completely unsurprising, turn of events, publisher Take 2 are suing the now-defunct 3D Realms. Bloomberg has the story:
Take-Two, owner of the publishing rights to the game, said Apogee breached an agreement to design the latest installment of Duke Nukem, a game in which the player �shoots� enemies. The new version has been under development since 1997, the company said yesterday in a complaint in a state court in Manhattan.
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�Apogee continually delayed the completion date for the Duke Nukem Forever,� Take-Two said in the complaint. �Apogee repeatedly assured Take-Two and the video-gaming community that it was diligently working toward competing development of the PC Version of the Duke Nukem Forever.�
The drama will no doubt continue in the vacuum left by the evaporation of 3D Realms.


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MikeBantick
Posted 11:22am 16/5/09
correct! the story is about 1 quarter of the way down the list. Take-Two are suing Apogee
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koopz
Posted 12:37pm 16/5/09
Come to think of it.. I dunno why Apogee hasn't been sued earlier

They've had a decade to produce a product that they were paid over 10 million to deliver :/


It almost sounds like a scam
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trog
Posted 12:40pm 16/5/09
Come to think of it.. I dunno why Apogee hasn't been sued earlier

They've had a decade to produce a product that they were paid over 10 million to deliver :/


It almost sounds like a scam
yeh that's a pretty interesting question.. I suspect they just kept showing off partial builds/milestones that were sufficiently good enough and enticing enough to keep Take 2 on the hook for this long. I'm sure the details of what happened will come out as part of the court case.
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BassMan
Posted 01:53pm 16/5/09
a game in which the player �shoots� enemies
"shoots"? What a novel concept!
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Crakaveli
Posted 02:25pm 16/5/09
why are they suing apogee and not 3drealms?
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ravn0s
Posted 03:05pm 16/5/09
apogee is 3drealms
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Bah
Posted 03:12pm 16/5/09
They've had a decade to produce a product that they were paid over 10 million to deliver :/
actually from what i read, they made a deal with infogrames to publish dnf (no money upfront i think), infogrames then on sold those rights to take 2 for $12 million.

So apogee didnt see any money from them.
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D3FCON
Posted 03:07pm 17/5/09
bunch of idiots the lot of them so IDK anyway. taking so long to develop a game will only make a release that is out dated and not what is expected of the gaming community in the future so meh live and learn i say
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nF
Posted 07:53am 18/5/09
So where was the money coming from? Royalties from Prey and s***? Surely that didn't make a lot of money.
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