Gearbox Okays Fan-Made Duke 3D Remake

Post by Steve Farrelly @ 01:53pm 15/10/10 | 19 Comments

It seems that at the moment, Gearbox Software can plain do no wrong. Not only did they revive the pronounced-dead-at-the-scene Duke Nukem Forever, and hire a host of the original dev team to continue work on the game, but now they've given the green-light to a fan-made remake of Duke Nukem 3D, codenamed Duke Nukem: Next Gen.

Frederik "Fresch" Schrieber has been working on remaking the original FPS Duke using Unreal Engine 3, and got the go-ahead in just three weeks of announcing the project. In the past, he'd worked on remakes of other infamous games, including Daikitana and SIN. It looks like this one is going to be a winner though.

We have a brief YouTube video of his game in action (though early in development) below.

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Sc00bs
Posted 01:55pm 15/10/10

F*** YES this is exactly what i asked for in the other thread and they have answered =)

f***** champions.

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tequila
Posted 01:56pm 15/10/10

phwoar that brings back some memories, awesome sauce

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ravn0s
Posted 01:58pm 15/10/10

its going to have multiplayer too. f*****g sweet.

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groganus
Posted 02:06pm 15/10/10

It's great to see that they gave the ok to this project, instead of s***ting all over it with legal f***tardness like most other dev/pubs would do.

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Sc00bs
Posted 02:08pm 15/10/10

oh yeah, like the recent sonic fan video that was better than the actual one sony is releasing.

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groganus
Posted 02:25pm 15/10/10

Or the kings quest remakes.

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konstie
Posted 02:32pm 15/10/10

yes to this

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myWhiteWolf
Posted 02:49pm 15/10/10

It's great to see that they gave the ok to this project, instead of s***ting all over it with legal f***tardness like most other dev/pubs would do.

maybe... just maybe companies are learning not to f*** over their biggest fans for the sake of copyright law... this could be the start of a beautiful digital future... or more likely a once off case in a corporate world.

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Midda
Posted 03:09pm 15/10/10

oh yeah, like the recent sonic fan video that was better than the actual one sony is releasing.

You mean Sega?

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Sc00bs
Posted 03:10pm 15/10/10

yer sega =(

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Midda
Posted 03:13pm 15/10/10

I actually like the look of Sonic 4 more than the fan-made one.

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d^
Posted 03:17pm 15/10/10

Do we have links to these remakes? Daikitana and SIN

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Dan
Posted 03:52pm 15/10/10

From what I read they were never finished. No reason to assume that this one will either really. It needs a community team like the guys that made the HD texture pack to jump onboard. No way one guy could do this all on his own in a timeframe that the rest of us would give a s*** about.

It's very cool that Gearbox have given their blessing though, really need to see more of that s***.

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Khel
Posted 04:00pm 15/10/10

Except that sonic fan-made thing was just 3d render, not an actual game, so its not like theres actually anything Sega need to worry about s***ting on.

But yeah, kudos to Gearbox for getting behind this instead of stomping on it. They just went up a notch on my Respect-o-meter.

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Mantorok
Posted 04:08pm 15/10/10

Do we have links to these remakes? Daikitana and SIN

He gave up on the Daikatana remake fairly early because no-one was interested, and I think he got a got a cease-and-desist letter over the Sin remake before it went anywhere. So it'll be interesting if he sees this remake through to completion.

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Tepid
Posted 10:06am 16/10/10

awesome... 0.01% complete, 99.9% to go!

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reload!
Posted 01:38pm 16/10/10

yeah exactly. so he ALMOST has the first what, like 20m^2 done?
grats

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Damo
Posted 02:53pm 16/10/10

http://gbxforums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?t=112564

Has ingame screen shots comparing old and new.

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Tepid
Posted 09:49pm 16/10/10

oh ya looks like a little more than i first thought

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