News

Clearing Up – Sort Of – Where Colonial Marines Fits In Aliens Canon

When Aliens: Colonial Marines‘ official game announcement billed it as a “true sequel to James Camerson’s classic Aliens“, diehard fans of the film trilogy took that to mean the game would undo the events of the controversial Alien 3, harshly criticized by Aliens director James Cameron and some of its principal cast. Not so, says the studio making Colonial Marines.


May 17, 2011
News

Duke Nukem Demo Confirmed By Randy Pitchford Himself

Kotaku AU

We had a rough idea that an early Duke Nukem Forever demo would be doing the rounds and, now, via a Presidential style video from Randy Pitchford we have all the details on its release.


May 16, 2011
PC

Duke Nukem’s Gay Sidekick Was Nixed

In Duke Nuke: Forever, a wide variety of heterosexual tropes get probed. “Sexuality is part of Duke’s personality,” game designer Randy Pitchford recently said at the BAFTAs in London. It’s part of the games, too.


May 4, 2011
PC

Duke Nukem, The Moral Panic And Obama’s Gamertag

Kotaku AU

Was criticism of Duke Nukem Forever’s ‘Capture the Babe’ mode fair? Is it reflective of the video game ‘moral panic’? We spoke to Randy Pitchford, President of Gearbox about the generation gap, Barack Obama’s gamertag and why Duke Nukem would kick Chris Brown’s ass.


April 25, 2011
In Real Life

When Your Favorite Game Is Proposing Marriage, The Answer Is ‘Yes’

She said yes. You’re dying to know, and Kotaku can confirm that for you now. Even though her marriage proposal came from a smart-aleck robot and contained references to herpes and, well, the big A, last night Tora told Ben yes, she will marry him,


April 21, 2011
PC

So How Much Work Went Into Duke Nukem Forever?

Duke Nukem Forever, the game that was in development for forever, was first revealed in 1997. This year it’s finally being released by another studio, Gearbox Software, which began working on the game in 2009.


April 6, 2011
Nintendo

Please, Stop Putting Multiplayer In Games That Don’t Need It

Some games are suited towards multiplayer components. Others are not. So why do so many games waste time and money trying to be the former when they’re clearly the latter?


March 27, 2011
News

One More Delay For Duke Nukem Forever Isn’t Really A Trick, Swear

When they heard the news Duke Nukem Forever would be delayed until June, many folks thought what I did, frankly: Maybe Gearbox and 2K Games planned all along for a June release, but gave it a May date so the game, 14 years in development, would get one last round of “Duke is Delayed” buzz with attendant teeth-gnashing. Not so, says Gearbox’s boss.


February 23, 2011
PC

Feminists, Duke Nukem Is Here For You Too

Does Duke Nukem Forever, with its strippers and schoolgirl threesomes, rub your feminist agenda the wrong way? “Awesome,” says the man now in charge of the Duke Nukem series. Duke is yours for the exploiting.


February 11, 2011
News

A Beginning Or An Ending, Duke Nukem Forever Is At Least Resolution

What Randy Pitchford bought last year wasn’t the rights to a storied video game franchise, it was a promise.