{"id":2852,"date":"2009-12-22T02:48:46","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T02:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/what-went-wrong-with-duke-nukem-forever-gaming\/"},"modified":"2009-12-22T02:48:46","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T02:48:46","slug":"what-went-wrong-with-duke-nukem-forever-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/what-went-wrong-with-duke-nukem-forever-gaming.php","title":{"rendered":"What Went Wrong With Duke Nukem Forever [Gaming]"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Even though the antagonist of the story, George Broussard<\/a>, co-owner of 3D realms, didn't consent to be interviewed for this story, Clive Thompson pieced enough together to get a good picture of what the hell went wrong. And it's obvious.<\/p>

Here's the bottom line: bad management. Broussard kept stalling and stalling the release because he could<\/i>, since he and the company were both bursting with enough cash to sustain things semi-indefinitely. Until they weren't.<\/p>

Obsessed with moving the game into the latest engine, starting from Quake, to Unreal, to whatever-the-hell-else they were using between 1998 and now, Broussard basically condemned the game to development hell. If he had taken the boss's role of putting his foot down and making a decision to ship the game instead of constantly being in the engineer's role of always wanting the newest thing, we'd probably be playing the 3rd sequel for Duke Nukem<\/a> by now.<\/p>

Head over to Wired to see the whole story. [Wired<\/a>]<\/p>

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