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goddog on 10 May 2009

I would not be surprised it makes sense, and honestly ID love to see a new duke game



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fg0054 on 12 May 2009

I REALLY wanna play this game :P



ramses01 on 12 May 2009
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.



rover on 12 May 2009
Million said:
Zizzla_Rachet said:
Million said:
People should keep in mind MS just closed down some of their major developers like Ensemble *Cries* . Why the hell would they buy 3D realms ?

All of the Essemble Employees took other Jobs inside MSGame Studios...

 

 

"Microsoft is working to place as many Ensemble employees who do not move to the newly formed studio into open positions within Microsoft as possible."

http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6197465.html

I'm sure Microsoft did keep many Ensemble employees but it's my understanding that they are attempting to downsize internal development in favour of 3rd party exclusives, some did leave.

Why buy BigPark if they are looking to downsize internal development?

Seems to be, again based on interviews I've read post studio shutdowns, that there are personality, current talent and financial reasons why some working relationships are terminated.

 



salaminizer on 12 May 2009

so the fact that 3D Realms closed 1 month away from June is a reason? and the DN3D remake? so SEGA will publish a new Altered Beast? after all, they are redoing it in HD..



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Bitmap Frogs on 12 May 2009
rover said:
Million said:
Zizzla_Rachet said:
Million said:
People should keep in mind MS just closed down some of their major developers like Ensemble *Cries* . Why the hell would they buy 3D realms ?

All of the Essemble Employees took other Jobs inside MSGame Studios...

 

 

"Microsoft is working to place as many Ensemble employees who do not move to the newly formed studio into open positions within Microsoft as possible."

http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6197465.html

I'm sure Microsoft did keep many Ensemble employees but it's my understanding that they are attempting to downsize internal development in favour of 3rd party exclusives, some did leave.

Why buy BigPark if they are looking to downsize internal development?

Seems to be, again based on interviews I've read post studio shutdowns, that there are personality, current talent and financial reasons why some working relationships are terminated.

 

 

Ensemble is a RTS developer, a genre that traditionally doesn't do well in consoles.





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rover on 12 May 2009
Bitmap Frogs said:
rover said:
Million said:
Zizzla_Rachet said:
Million said:
People should keep in mind MS just closed down some of their major developers like Ensemble *Cries* . Why the hell would they buy 3D realms ?

All of the Essemble Employees took other Jobs inside MSGame Studios...

 

 

"Microsoft is working to place as many Ensemble employees who do not move to the newly formed studio into open positions within Microsoft as possible."

http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6197465.html

I'm sure Microsoft did keep many Ensemble employees but it's my understanding that they are attempting to downsize internal development in favour of 3rd party exclusives, some did leave.

Why buy BigPark if they are looking to downsize internal development?

Seems to be, again based on interviews I've read post studio shutdowns, that there are personality, current talent and financial reasons why some working relationships are terminated.

 

 

Ensemble is a RTS developer, a genre that traditionally doesn't do well in consoles.

Sure, but Ensemble did Halo Wars, which is doing quite well.  The Age franchise is nowhere near gone.

Ensemble was, by some accounts, more expensive to operate than any other internal studio.  Swank Texas offices, refusal to downsize employees when there was no work. 

Also, there was talk that Ensemble didn't want to make RTSes any more.  They were big on some MMO and wouldn't budge. At least that's what I heard.

Lastly, they're essentially on their own now, under a different name, able to set their own course, which creatively is probably better for them at this point.  I wouldn't be at all surprised if MS published their stuff in the future.



Bitmap Frogs on 12 May 2009
rover said:
Bitmap Frogs said:


Ensemble is a RTS developer, a genre that traditionally doesn't do well in consoles.

Sure, but Ensemble did Halo Wars, which is doing quite well.  The Age franchise is nowhere near gone.

Ensemble was, by some accounts, more expensive to operate than any other internal studio.  Swank Texas offices, refusal to downsize employees when there was no work. 

Also, there was talk that Ensemble didn't want to make RTSes any more.  They were big on some MMO and wouldn't budge. At least that's what I heard.

Lastly, they're essentially on their own now, under a different name, able to set their own course, which creatively is probably better for them at this point.  I wouldn't be at all surprised if MS published their stuff in the future.

 

Halo Wars

(relevant parts bolded)

All of the other reasons, I don't know =)

 





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NES on 12 May 2009

Halo Nukem