Duke Nukem Forever set for release 24th of Never, two thousand and don't count on it

We hate it as much as you do, in fact we probably hate it more. . .

A little while ago the DBJ announced that Duke Nukem Forever would see the light of day before 2008 was out.

Of course, everyone was more than a little excited by the news and there wasn’t a dry seat in the THG house. DNF before Christmas ? Really ?? *cue girly squeals* [in the News Editor’s case, actual girly squeals -Ed]

HOWEVER, our trusty friends down at Next Generation smelled a rat and so, contacted 3D realms for a wee quotey-wote.

Upon doing so, they received a nice and short, to the point email from Scott Miller (the man who was quoted in the DBJ) where Miller dubbed the Dallas Business Journal lying bastards.

“Quite simply, they are lying bastards and they know it”

Won’t you join is while we lol all the way to the official post on the developers forum…

On the 3D realms forums George Broussard said the following,

“I’d like to address the article the Dallas Business Journal put up today.

In what appears to be an unfortunate turn of events, there seems to have been some confusion between what was ’off the record’ and what was not. I suppose we’re used to dealing with gaming press and not mainstream press. Lesson learned.

While we have internal targets, dates and goals, like every developer, we are not ready to share them. What’s amazing about this is that the DBJ must have assumed that we’d actually announce a date to them, and not gaming press, and that even in the light of Scott’s quote of "We can’t make an official announcement.", the DBJ effectively did that. Lesson learned.

The release date is still ’when it’s done’, and will be until the appropriate moment. Platforms have not been finalized or announced. You can rest assured that we are moving toward a goal and that the recently released teaser trailer is the start of that process and seeing more of the game, sooner than later.

We apologize to gamers and websites everywhere for this series of events. Sometimes, you can be too trusting of people and assume things that come back to bite you. Lesson learned.”

The DBJ has since updated their DNF story and placed the appropriate question marks and ’maybes’ in all the right places. . .

Ahhh, I love the smell of a mix-up in the morning. . .

Read what Scott Miller actually said to the DBJ on NextGen.