Forever Was Not Enough?

henke on 3/3/2014 at 12:40

Aww man, that makes me feel kinda sad. I remember back in the shareware days when Apogee was pretty much the biggest company around and they released a ton of great games! Duke Nukem, Commander Keen, Cosmo with the Suctioncuphands, Dynamite Harry, Halloween Harry, Blake Smith and the Aliens of Gold, Catacomb, Gunperson, Jumpguy, that guy with the jetpack (Jetpack Harry?), and all those other UNFORGETTABLE CLASSICS! :(

EvaUnit02 on 4/3/2014 at 02:38

Quote Posted by henke

Aww man, that makes me feel kinda sad.

Why now? 3DR has only been like a holding company for several years now. They laid off their dev team in 2009, Broussard and Miller have been as useless Interplay's Caen brothers.

Now we might see more actually done with Apogee's back catalogue and properties, an actual game studio is at the helm again.
(http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/03/03/interceptor-not-too-worried-about-gearboxduke-lawsuit/)
This RPS article suggests that Interceptor want to get a hold of the Blood IP. If it's clawed from Atari's mits that'd be awesome! (http://www.destructoid.com/atari-shuts-down-jace-hall-s-blood-re-release-245108.phtml) Get Jace Hall on board and they can release the source code or at the very least put out a commercial modern day source port.

henke on 4/3/2014 at 09:02

AWW MAAAAAAN I was hoping Devolver would get the Blood IP and let Flying Wild Hog do a remake. I haven't played the ROTT remake but I also haven't heard anything about it that'd make me want to play it.

june gloom on 4/3/2014 at 10:15

A friend of mine went through it and said it was great. YMMV.

EvaUnit02 on 5/3/2014 at 02:14

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(http://forums.transfusion-game.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2609)

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Not happening. Crazy 'spensive.

EvaUnit02 on 16/5/2014 at 01:45

Ohhhh, this (http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/news/1147480/) new Bombshell game sound suspiciously like (http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/news/1139150/) Duke Nukem: Mass Destruction. I'm guessing that Interceptor's plans for releasing a Duke game with no license from Gearbox (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/03/04/interceptor-3d-realms-interview/) weren't as legally-sound as they thought.

N.B. Bombshell was also the name of scrapped side-kick from a previous iteration of (http://dukenukem.wikia.com/wiki/Bombshell) Duke Nukem Forever.

Vicarious on 16/5/2014 at 07:09

The reception is ovewhelmingly negative. Well, it's obviously Mass Destruction with a different protagonist to avoid legal issues. The casino bit looks exactly like the one in DNF.

To be honest, it looks really cheap in all regards. But I do like the Bombshell Theme that plays on the main site.

henke on 16/5/2014 at 08:22

Yeah the Bombshell trailer has the character-animation and pacing of a mid-90's cutscene. I can't figure out if it's a knowing homage to the time when simply having a 3D character in a cutscene was enough of a "wow factor" to carry it for 3 minutes, or if it's just really terrible.

EvaUnit02 on 16/5/2014 at 12:05

Yeah, that trailer was shit house. Cheap and low effort.

Hah! This was a good one.

(http://www.iforce.co.nz/View.aspx?i=xhogmmca.ezl.jpg)

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http://iforce.co.nz/i/xhogmmca.ezl.jpg

Jason Moyer on 16/5/2014 at 13:40

Was this trailer laying around from when they first announced a Bombshell game in 2002?