The Mana Bar – a fine establishment which lovingly combines alcohol with video games for Brisbane’s social 1337 – is to host Australia’s first peek at Duke Nukem Forever on October 16th. But that’s not all: Kotaku AU has learned Randy Pitchford, president of Gearbox Software, will be present to show off the game and answer questions.
So how did the Mana Bar swing this? We all know co-founder Yug has a little black box full of pictures of developers on their drunken adventures at the bar for future leverage and blackmail. But more likely this is the last stop of Pitchford’s tour after travelling Europe, ending with Brisbane’s EB vendor show, to show that, yes, this game does indeed exist.
A Q&A session is planned with Yahtzee as the MC, which should be interesting given his Zero Punctuation coverage of the game. Not to mention the GameDamage pilot’s lampooning of the DNF design team.
If you’re in town, Duke Nukem Forever will be set up on all five screens from midday to midnight. Long enough for you to kick ass and drink beer – until you’re all out of beer.
St3yr
Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 2:34 PMFirst! Good to see yer name Junglist. Would be great to go – Mana Bar; what a good idea!
Korwin
Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 2:48 PMHmmm, I’m inclined to fly to Brisbane next month all of a sudden.
Googootz
Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 3:01 PM“But more likely this is the last stop of Pitchford’s tour across Europe, ending with Brisbane’s EB vendor show, to show that, yes, this game does indeed exist.”
I think you need to brush up on your geography a bit Jung.
Junglist
Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 3:04 PMLet’s blame the American education system.
James Mac
Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 4:29 PMWere you disapointed when you found out we didn’t all own kangaroos?
Junglist
Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 4:30 PMIt balances out, because I do the same to my US friends now. They all think I studied croc wrestling in school.
Ben
Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 3:03 PMman not the best place to show it that place is TINY.
Still will be cool to see.
Name
Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 3:31 PMYeah bugger that, supposed 50 person capacity, went there once and there was absolutely no room with around 30 or so people there.
Yug
Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 3:57 PMHaters gonna hate :P
Name
Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 4:16 PMIf they had a bigger bar I wouldn’t mind it. Good in concept but too small for me.
Yug
Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 4:29 PMAnd if they had no bar there would be no playable Duke Nukem Forever.
Crazy :)
Shay
Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 5:17 PMBut you don’t understand Yug.
If I did a Mana Bar it would be super huge.
It would fit like 900 people (because there is like a million billion gamer bar fans in brisbane) but i would only let in like 70ish because i don’t like crowded bars.
Yug
Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 5:34 PMAwesome, can’t wait to go!! When you going to open? Can I get my name on the guest list?
tops
Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 5:45 PMDid Name get it?
Shay
Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 6:24 PMNo Yug,
I only like gaming with people i know. Also me and my friends don’t drink much so we don’t want any drunks like at that mana bar.
Cadam
Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 11:24 PMsoft drinks on the house! wont be good as mana bar’s health and mana potions :P
Thomas Fullerton
Friday, October 1, 2010 at 4:48 PMYou know what? You should open heaps of these larger bars all over the world and limit them to one person per bar and then everyone can just play online.
Ross Moir
Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 3:36 PMI don’t see why he couldn’t have finished the tour at Armaggedon, which is being held in Melbourne on the 16th and 17th, but I guess any chance to encourage gaming bars should be embraced.
Cadam
Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 4:35 PMSaw this on the Facebook page, gonna be 1337 haha. You better be there Jung! And it is nice to see ya name here again!
Wayne
Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 4:47 PMDuke Nukem forever??
Good luck to whichever studio picks up the remains of that unlucky duck…
I bet it has the tagline “Coming soon! 2052!”
Luke
Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 5:43 PMsomeones late to the party, Gearbox picked it up and its coming in 2011, EB already has pre orders going for it now.
thyco
Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 4:48 PMDamn seems like briz vegas is now the gaming capital of the country..what with this and the offical SC2 launch in briz as well
Cadam
Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 4:50 PM@thyco haha bris vegas has always been the gaming captial of oz :P
Nicholas Corcoran
Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 5:00 PM“hey muuuuuuuuuum!!!! have you got any holiday money saved? i want to go up to brisbane.”
“what for…”
“so i can smack randy pitchford for making me wait so god dam long for a video game.”
“oh ok then”
Blackwater
Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 6:33 PMI’ll be there, I’m down there for Metallica already, this just sweetens the deal