Duke Nukem Forever Has a Release Date (Again)
Retailers are listing the legendarily non-existent Duke Nukem Forever, recently picked up by Gearbox, as having a release date of February 1st, 2011. Since DNF hasn’t had a release date in several years, I figured this was news, even though I still personally don’t believe the game even exists (I think it might be a small elf that lives in your brain). Since Gearbox is supposedly so close to being done, you might be wondering why the release date is so late — and then I released if Gearbox’s DNF misses one release date, IT’D BE THE END OF THE FUCKING WORLD. If they announced it for the holidays and had to delay it even a week, people would go absolutely apeshit; I know I would, not because I’d be upset, just because it’d be funny. So they probably padded out the release date and given themselves plenty of time, just in case. Better safe than sorry. Assuming, you know, the game is real and is really coming out. Which it’s not. (Via Kotaku)
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.