Using an army of sexually transmitted bacteria which we have trained and tamed for domestic uses, Duke4.net has extracted every nook and cranny George ever spit out about zeh game on zeh official forums. Indeed, he's had much to say about the game outside of those previews various game sites been churning out.

- We're planning an Xbox 360 theme and a couple of gamerpic packs.

- This was a pretty short project, all in all. It was done in 2008.

- People don't really understand how much work [redoing the game's graphics] would be. Duke 3D is a "real" game, meaning that it has a lot of scope and assets, even for an old game. As they stand, Doom and Duke 3D have more content that 99% of XBLA games.  The Bionic Commando remake is fantastic but that was probably a 20 man team on that game for a year. We had 3-4 people on this for 6 months and still managed to add a tremendous amount of cool features.

There's no way we could have updated 5000 textures or turned things into a real 3D engine.

- You can chat during the match. Taunt away, or talk to your buddies "I have the blue key", or "At the Battlelord - will wait for backup."


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TeamXbox and OXM Online have both put up their own previews of Duke3D for the 360. That means more quotes from George, more screenshots, and more gameplay video. So check them out!

We've been told that IGN will have a preview in a couple of hours (as of this writing) as well. My private parts are tingling!

4:30 PM PST Update: Here's the IGN preview, as promised.

Check it out. They've got a gameplay video as well as brand spankin' new screenshots, some of which show off the new content arriving with the game (multiplayer, concept art, new load/logo/menu screens).



Price and release date are still unknown, but I'm guessing $10-15 on September.

TeamXbox has interviewed George about Duke3D on the Xbox Live Arcade. Among various details about the gameplay and mechanics, 3D Realms has released two screenshots of the rewind feature in the game:

Read the full interview here.

Most notably, the interview ends with a question about Duke Nukem Forever:

NukemDave e-mailed us with very funny video of a real-life Duke Nukem that came to the Games Convention in Germany. If you get tired of him showing off his muscles, skip to 1:47 to hear him utter Duke quotes with a thick German accent and an overall shitty voice.

Don't know what DukePlus is? Check out our older news item here. Now check out what happens when you combine DukePlus with the awesome power of the new EDuke32--it's quite vaginal, really:

There are many big changes, many small changes, many additions, and many bug fixes. A clean install is mandatory. That means you delete your old DukePlus folder and anything else DukePlus related (or better yet, start with an empty folder), then extract all the contents of DukePlus18.rar into the folder and make sure your duke3d.grp is in there too.

The documentation is up to date. It is on the website and also included with the package. As before, you can start Duke Plus with the included .bat file (which is different from the old .bat file --CLEAN INSTALL PPL!!) and now you can start it by launching EDuke32.exe and using the new gamedir feature.

The release of DP 1.8 is also the release of the included brand new map by Spiker, Project Zero. And there have been signficant changes to previously released Duke Plus maps, especially Blown Fuses.

Here's some information I've learned about the game through the official thread:

- Regarding music, GB says, "We found a better midi instrument file but that was it. The music all in all sounds like the original game if you had a decent sound card back then."

- The game is 75 MB in size (larger than the PC version due to foreign language fonts and "other things."

- Regarding release date, GB says, "We have an official release date now. We can't say anything about it just yet, but will keep you posted as we get near the date."

My personal opinion on the changes/additions of the game in comparison to the PC version: All in all, I don't think there will be any graphical updates except for native 720p support (1280x720 resolution) which I think would be a logical choice. There will be a new online component to the game of course, to allow for Dukematch (deathmatch) over Xbox Live. Online co-op might be a possibliity, but I don't think there will be any other multiplayer modes.

8/21 Update: Confirmed: OXM Dates Original Duke Nukem for XBLA in September



8/22 Update: X08: XBLA Duke adds saved films, rewind feature

8/19 Update: 3D Realms has announced that "the game has indeed passed final certification with Microsoft on Friday the 15th of August " and will be available soon on XBLA.  A preview of the game is available in the October issue of the Official Xbox Magazine.

From Achieve360Points.com:

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Xenoviper showed us all his awesome Custom made Duke Nukem Action Figure not too long ago, a well sculptured head of Duke, and has since then made quite some progress.

You can now witness Duke with all of his skin colored and covered in a red tank-top with blue jeans. This mighty-boot-equipped figure is still W.I.P. though, but it's certainly shaping up and looking kick-ass already.

Check it out yourself with the images provided below:

Thanks to NukemDave for finding this hilarious and very entertaining brand new footage of Duke's voice actor.