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Here is your first look at Gearbox’s canceled Duke Nukem Begins

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Gregor Punchatz has shared a video from a vertical slice CG demo of a canceled Duke Nukem game, Duke Nukem Begins. According to Punchatz, Gearbox began working on this Duke Nukem game in 2008. However, and without the public knowing anything about it, the company decided to cancel it.

As Punchatz said:

“In 2008, when I was working for the good folks at Janimation in Dallas Tx, we were hired by Gearbox to create a vertical slice (an animated version of what the game will look like) for the game “Duke Nukem Begins”, a Duke origin story.

I headed up this project, as the director at Janimation, and did a lot of the character development, including the design and modeling of Duke. We poured everything we had into making the most awesome cinematic Janimation had ever created. But unfortunately, we got word that Gearbox canceled the game due to the legal issues with Duke Nukem at the time.”

From the looks of it, Duke Nukem Begins would feature a co-op mode with up to four players. It would also be a third-person shooter (instead of an FPS). Naturally, the game would also feature most weapons and enemies from Duke Nukem 3D.

Now I don’t know about you, but this doesn’t really feel like a Duke Nukem game to me. So yeah, I’m not that upset about its cancelation.

Go ahead and take a look!

https://youtu.be/XiZHM1CLVy8

94 thoughts on “Here is your first look at Gearbox’s canceled Duke Nukem Begins”

  8. I guess this is one of those examples of Franchises not aging well with time. Duke Nukem 3D was a masterpiece for it’s time and while this trash looked god awful a lot of Duke Nukem was there. Duke Nukem saves us from the layers of Brown in Doom and the layers of Gray in Wolfenstein and merged a colorful creative game by thinking outside of the box. It’s sad to see in the end they only made a box for the game that they would trapped in for all these years.

    I guess we have still have Shadow Warrior as a campy FPS that is a stellar title.

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    1. Ahem… Trump in office last year. LAST YEAR. Night and day difference. That was night, this is day. Loser.

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      3. oh so we are at this again Trumps economy is great 3 years in

        “thats obama’s economy”

        3 YEARS IN.

        Meanwhile biden takes office and tanks it with hyper inflation in mere months.

        “wtf you talking about its not bad, jobs are created”

        Yeah because of the pandemic the dems shut everything down but now its all open. Still we are mere months into it, the 200 bazillion executive orders he have not taken effect yet. In 2022 it will be a mess but dont worry the dems are gonna win because the GOP sucks and refuses to fight the left like the controlled opposition that it is while at the same time the dems will “fortify” the election with imaginary make belief ballots.

        You know russia and china are laughing at how america has become a corrupt third world autocracy.

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        1. Hyper inflation? do you even know what that means? the US has one of the most stable economies in the world, just what in the fck’s name are you on about? US currency was at its worse compared to other major currencies when trump was in the office.
          I know you’re copying from some other clueless fox news advocate baboon like yourself but I honestly didn’t expect any better from someone who said education and universities are “woke”.
          https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7639dc7d40f9d8ebcf6da238dc87eece1693273f84f92dffad5c9fee495b87fd.png

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          7. You’re the one who doesn’t know what inflation is and get your inflation rate from news sites lmao.

          1. But we have socialism already. And it has proven to be a bit necessary. I can send you some educational website links maybe to make sure you know better about the things you decide to chime in about. Maybe that way you don’t look as stupid in the future. Would you like me to teach you some things?

            But yeah, maybe a little less socialism for the billionaires that have their taxes paid for them by the people, yeah, I’m down with that, son.

          6. how about we have no socialism at all? Do you want a little bit of sht in your sandwich or none at all?

            Why is it the billionaires keep siding with the left? Why is it that the elites keep funding communist movement throughout history? Why is it that corporations lobby the government for regulations, it stops their competition. because they can go around the regulations that THEY WRONG AND LOBBIED FOR, but small companies cant.

          7. whats more mind-blowing about the socialist simps is that after the pandemic they still advocating for socialism even though all socialist countries have collapses and the pandemic proved that the libertarians are right on the free market. Let the companies work and dont have “safety nets” or they gonna shut down the economy and have the taxpayers bail out the companies with taxpayer money….and the moronic leftists still advocate for socialism. Just wow.

          1. HAHHAHAAHAHAHHAAHAHAAHAHHAAHHAHHA

            AHAHAHHAHAAHHAHAHAHA yeah sure it ha nothing to do with printing money like crazy to fight the shutdown of economy, it has to do with a tarrif, BAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA What a r3tard.

          2. The federal government shut down, 3 times under Trump. Jay Powell printing money from the Federal Reserve doesn’t have anything to do with inflation from what you’re seeing currently from Supply and Demand. Gas prices are up, because people are going back to work. Perfect example of that is last year, you could walk into an oil refinery and grab barrels of oil because they were so much production and no one was traveling. Yes you’ll see tv, electronics, food and multiple other areas of our economy have inflation because of the tariff war he and the Republicans created from 2017-2020.

            But ahh yes, I’m a r**ard who doesn’t understand economics from some f*king “0nl1n3 1337 d1ld0” from DSO Gaming.

          5. costs have been simply going up

            That kind of servile credulity is why we’re in this mess. There are a variety of factors warring against the Dollar, but costs do not simply “go up.” Biden’s monetary policy and profligate spending have created Inflation that we’ve never seen before, and he’s taken us from energy independence to begging OPEC to increase production.

            Barring a miracle, this is the end of the Republic.

          6. Inflation does not go up in a day or two, macroeconomic events don’t happen over a night. to claim that any monetary policy like printing money can cause inflation in a short period of time is the most illiterate thing I’ve ever heard in my entire life.
            costs going up is the exact reason that world is experiencing inflation. disruption of supply chain in global scale and increase of government spending and therefore deficit going up all over the world is why we’re experiencing inflation. some of the biggest shipping companies have gone bankrupt.
            you know when US could prepare for a day like this though? when Trump was in the office.

          10. “The federal government shut down, 3 times under Trump.”

            BASED. Keep the government shut down forever, its useless anyway.

            “. Jay Powell printing money from the Federal Reserve doesn’t have anything to do with inflation from what you’re seeing currently from Supply and Demand”

            how does supply and demand inflate money you fcking moron?

            “Gas prices are up, ”

            because biden shut down the pipeline idiot.

            “Demand for oil is up, lets shut down the pipeline hur dur me very smart”

            No you are an idiot.

          11. also i cant believe you used fake account to upvote your comment 7 out of the 9 accounts who upvoted your comment have basically no comments, they all use similar meme pictures as avatar, including 3 doctor memes and use the same name format and 2 of them that werent locked and i was able to see when they were created, lol they were litteraly created TODAY., thats right, TODAY.

            Pathetic.

            Dont try to deny it, they all downvoted after you, IN THE EXACT SAME ORDER.

            Echu’ta
            Murdock
            TTBOY
            rpUnkcoxXx
            StretchMark
            rhahalolnotme
            Dr. Don Keedicr
            Bryan Pepperz
            The Nigrid

            in fact the fact echuta is downvoting before you in one comment hints that you logged into that account to downvote once and then you were like “Screw it all make a few more” then you downvoted with every account right after downvoting with your main, how insecure you are?

            Or you expect me to believe these are real people who all happen to downvote the exact same comments on a 4 days old article right after you downvoted IN THE EXACT SAME ORDER and 2 of them were created today and none of them have any comments?

            LOL

          13. seriously this guy is a lowlife. so many comment upvotes and downvotes flipflopped.clearly has multiple accounts

          17. This inflation was not caused by a person, costs have been going up since coronavirus, the tariff war between US and china is not the main reason here at all.

      5. You must be a special kind of 4ta4d to even imagine trumpta4d was better. I mean, wow, dude…wow.

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      1. The burning, looting, and slaughter in the streets in 2020? That was (as usual) the Democrats.

        Realizing that you have the mind of a steel traaaaap, Billy, I’m going to assume that you’re referring to January 6th at the Capitol.

        This will be both painful and unnerving, but Trump urged his followers to be heard “peacefully”; some protestors were invited into the Capitol building; other protestors were fired on by government forces, which is when they began to defend themselves; BLM/Antifa/FBI plants incited and/or committed violence; Sicknick was not murdered; and no one gouged out anyone’s eyes.

        In fact, the only people slain that day were peaceful protesters killed by the government.

        Reply if you must, but please, try to keep it faaaactual.

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        1. “Trump urged his followers to be heard “peacefully” ”
          Trump is a smart and peaceful guy just like you santiago, everyone knows that.

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          2. smart and peaceful guy just like you

            (Someone’s bitter.)

            What we are is obvious to all. Since it’s obvious that you’re fact-deficient on this topic too:

            rumble[.]com/vcq0y3-president-trump-addresses-supporters-at-capitol-rally.html

            Now, you gonna do something or just stand there and bleat?

  14. Might as well confess that my friend in 2010 showed me the concept art and some level images of the actual game after it got canned. *Hands behind my head*

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  17. this is the worst thing i have ever seen, propably on rails, origin story, mp coop focused. Also gearbox, sigh the fact this soy woke f got c uck sc um bag owns the franchise pisses me off. Imagine they gave the game to newblood and 3d realms to get all the boomer shooter studios to unite and make a duke nukem game, how amazing it will be.

    Anyway if you are hungry for doom play that armagedon mod or that srious sam mod.

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  18. Randy you f*k…. just let him die. You can´t handle him. Only thing you ever did was to create some levels for Duke Nukem 3D.

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    1. wait… you censor words in these comments? change 2 letters to a star so it´s ok? I would swear that there are no children on this page after reading the comments here for years. Get your sh*t together-.- words won´t harm you

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  20. So wait if I say sh*t f*k d*ck my comment goes into moderation? Yeah it does. Lol. I got the need for moderation for comments with links but I though swear words were allowed. Having the comments stuck in moderation for swear words sucks

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