3D Realms shutdown

[JC175]

Well, at least Apogee is still in. Maybe they'll finish it.

What I don't understand is how Apogee is unaffected by this, aren't 3D Realms and Apogee essentially the same company?

 

[Stikibunn]

Yeah, a company that produced exactly one game in twelve years finally shuts down. Oh what a tragedy.

Wait, no it's not. When Looking Glass shut down that was a tragedy. When EA raped Origin that was a tragedy. When Black Isle closed down that was a tragedy. We'll never see Anachronox 2 or Full Throttle 2, who gives a crap about the Duke.

dont forget ion storm

And also Arcanum. Poor Troika. I wanted Arcanum 2 and nobody wants it!

 

[Squarewave]

DNF must of not been anywhere near done for Apogee to completely abandon it. If it was close to done, they would of got someone to finish it just to get some money out of it, or at bare minimum sold it off.

It wouldn't surprise me if the game was never actually worked on in 10 years, nothing more then a running joke to get publicity

 

[RAKais]

Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Preffered Serious Sam

 

[NeutralDrow]

Well, at least Apogee is still in. Maybe they'll finish it.

What I don't understand is how Apogee is unaffected by this, aren't 3D Realms and Apogee essentially the same company?

Not sure. According to Wikipedia, at least...

While the company was known as "3D Realms", the legal name of the company was Apogee Software, Ltd. The name "3D Realms" was initially created as a branding label in July 1994 for use by Apogee which would be dedicated to just 3D games (as Apogee was then known for several styles of games). However, shortly after this, 3D games started to dominate the industry, and Apogee decided to direct their focus on this style of game, and as such, the Apogee name was eventually abandoned as a public marketing name in late 1996.[3] In July 2008, however, they announced that the brand Apogee Software will be revived with new games, but licensed to an external company, Apogee Software, LLC.[4] 3D Realms was shut down on May 6, 2009 due to lack of funding.[5]

I guess it's just an associated company that shares the name. Either way, I think that news thing mentioned that they have Duke Nukem Forever, so...

 

[Arach]

DNF was always to be a myth. It was never really supposed to come out. Of course it kind of bugs a bit when it ends now, but they'd got to have run out of money at some point.

I wonder if we'll ever see the work they had done or if they had actually done anything. I read some comments about the past work they'd done over the years and it seems that they didn't get much done at all and all the E3 trailers were just scripted demos.