2K Working On 'Duke Begins'
Turning decade-old lemons into lemonade is no small feat, but GamePolitics has ferreted out a court filing from Apogee that reveals that 2K may be doing just that - be developing a brand new Duke Nukem game under the working title Duke Begins:
On October 22, 2007, Apogee, Take-Two, and 2K Games entered into an agreement in which Apogee granted 2K Games the exclusive right to develop and publish a new videogame based upon Apogee's Duke Nukem franchise... The new game was given the working title of "Duke Begins" and is not the same game as the DNF game... The original development schedule for the Duke Begins game provided that the game was to be completed and commercially released by mid-2010...Take Two and/or its subsidiary 2K Games halted or otherwise cancelled all development work by the third-party game developer on the Duke Begins game in April 2009... without Apogee's approval or consent...
When Apogee confronted Take-Two and 2K Games about the... cancellation of the Duke Begins development work... Take-Two and 2K Games simply denied it... Take-Two and 2K Games are taking such actions with a goal of pressuring Apogee to sell the Duke Nukem franchise rights to Take-Two for less than their true value.
Of course, Take-Two/2K isn't talking because of the pending litigation - if that doesn't work out well, Duke Begins may turn into Duke Ends. And who wants to play that?
Court Filing: 2KGames Developing "Duke Begins" [GamePolitics]
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Posted to Hot Stuff, Video Games on 23 June 2009
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