In the past, almost twelve years, we’ve been witnessess to an endless massive campaigns promoting this game all around, showing us inside peaks, and promises of the upcoming release, to the point it all began to look like a bad hoax.

During this time, they’ve restarted the project countless times, changed and rechanged the base game engine and they still don’t have anything to show! And apparently it’s going to stay that way. Two days ago, 3dRealms, the studio that was making this game, announced their production will be shot down, because of funding problems. Though I’m of the opinion this is not the only reason for the termination of their work. Games are nowadays developed, usually and sadly in only about a year or two. This of course results in some initial bugs and unfinished features, but no game to date has taken so much time to develop as Duke Nukem, and still not showing anything. I, as a gamer would seriously expect some extraordinary features, unseen game play and revolutionary techniques present in a game that’s been in the works for more than a decade. I guess they didn’t make anything revolutionary so far and are just afraid to show their fans (if they’re still any left) nothing more than an ordinary game.

A few days ago, I was searching around for a simple and entertaining game, and I came across World of Goo. Until then, I didn’t ever think that it was possible to create such an entertaining gaming experience, full of witty text signs and intelligent puzzles, accompanied with great graphics and and awesome design. And to think that this is a work of only two people! If you have too much spare time on your behalf, don’t hesitate to try out the demo version. I can guarantee that you will want more!

Of course, I also agree with many of you that they’re releasing the new versions too quickly. The best of the first two versions (especially Call of Duty 2) was that there was enough time for communities to arise. Just remember how many mods and servers were available only two years ago. Now, there wasn’t enough time for something similar to happen with the fourth version, and it won’t with the last one. Activision has already announced Call of Duty 6, which is expected to be out in a year or so. If they would at least use this time to make a longer single player campaign it would be better. But anyway, I’m eager to get my hands on the final version of this game, which should be out in Europe in three days.