*RUMOR* 3d realms bought out by microsoft

[ramses01]

Mistershine said:

tyig said:
Why buy a crappy studio that took 12 years and did not finish the Duke Nukem game? I don't think it's true there lots of great developers, why this?

They might be after the IP.

 

 

This is your answer.  The Duke IP is probably worth at least $50 million and probably closer to $100M.  3DRealms just turned down $30 million for the IP from Take Two.

 

Keep the insane designers that come up with trademark Duke style and let GearBox or Epic handle the actual coding and development.  Boom, you have a 2+ million selling title ever 2 years.