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* 3D Realms have now gone out of business. Time to test this theory!
** And Gearbox have "taken over development"! Due for release later this year or early next year! Allegedly! Because we haven't heard ''that'' every twelve months for the last thirteen years! Until we actually see a product on the shelves, I'd say this one is truly confirmed.
* The principal player in this scheme, after 3D Realms, is Blizzard. See: ''[[Diablo]] II'', ''[[Starcraft]]'', ''Starcraft: Ghost'', ''Starcraft II'', ''[[
** What? Diablo 2 and Starcraft were actually released.
*** Ah, but both were heavily delayed. If there wasn't such a pariah as Duke Nukem Forever, then there might have been more anger with them being so delayed.
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* At some point within the next couple of years, this fact will be forgotten, and the developers will actually get to work on finishing the game, intending to release it around Christmas 2012. This will happen, and the world will end as per certain interpretations of the Mayan calendar.
** Clearly they shut down to avoid something like this, as it was too much power.
*** They shut down because they realized that they might eventually have to bring on a new team of developers, and part of the deal was that they couldn't mention the deal to anyone outside the team. The new developers might actually finish the game, so they decided to shut down to pre-empt them, however a collection of unwitting fans may still get their hands on the half-finished code (possibly via another [[Deal
* Alternately: The [[Deal
** Alternately Alternately: The Deal with the Devil would allow them to make good games. The condition was that Duke Nukem Forever would never be released. Duke Nukem Forever, if released, would literally be the best game ever produced.
*** Even more alternately: ''Duke Nukem Forever'' actually ''was'' released, but one of the developers made a Deal With The Devil in order to save his elderly aunt's life. The Devil's condition was that ''Duke Nukem Forever'' would be erased from the timeline and no one would remember it.
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== The next game will be titled ''Duke Nukem Go(es to Japan)'' ==
Think about it: the third game was ''3''D; the fourth was ''4ever''; if the trend of bad puns is to continue, the fifth game has got to play off "[[One, Two, Three, Four, Go]]". Besides, [[Tokyo Is the Center of
Of course, ''[[DN 5]]'' won't be released until 2086.
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== DNF was a [[Franchise Killer]] ==
Going off the above theroy, this seems the only option for this franchise. A quick glance of the reviews on DNF say that it's avrage AT BEST while many others have panned it. Yahtzee said that if he didn't know the history of this game, he says he'd think it was RUSHED, and giantbomb ended it's review with this little comment: "If you're not willing to play a sloppy, cobbled together first-person shooter just because it has some kind of weird historical meaning, though, just forget this ever happened and move on." Despite the sequel tease, it's very unlikely that'll happen. People have been burned by the wating time to be 'rewarded' for a generic, brown, FPS and they won't want to see anything else from The King.
* A new singleplayer campaign has come out, which acknowlegdes the sequel tease as part of the canon (after Duke declares that he wants to run for president, a Duke clone pops out from backstage). There are also insistent rumors that Gearbox is working on a prequel called [[Shout
== Guesses about the plot of the game: ==
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== Duke Nukem's regenerating ego in the place of health makes sense in universe. ==
Tile 4484 in [[Duke Nukem 3D]] (Atomic Edition) shows the text "Ultimate warrior", with a picture of Duke detailing his brain, skin layer, cells and DNA. This is a clue that Duke has been genetically engineered to be the ultimate warrior and actually possesses a [[X
* This would also explain why {{spoiler|Duke survives the nuke at the end of the main game and}} his skin shows a [[Barrier Warrior|force field]]-like effect when he is walking on the surface of the moon in the final level of the singleplayer DLC.
* Agreed that his regenerating Ego makes sense in place of health, and agreed again that it must qualify as a super-power. Duke was once part of the military, but while he was always a decent soldier, he and Dylan underwent an experimental super-soldier type procedure. It gave Duke a standard amount of super-strength, perhaps comparable to Spider-Man or Captain America, but his invulnerability works like Kallark's does: the more confident he is, the less anything can hurt him. Duke's powers aren't known to the general public, but he sure knows, which is why he lives such a narcissistic lifestyle: it keeps his ego high enough to make him prepared to fight any minute. Unfortunately, his self-esteem is easily damaged by physical abuse, which is why it goes down for getting hit, even though it doesn't hurt him. If Duke ever had kids, they'd have the same powers.
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