Bad guys finish last

Duke Nukem Forever’s been bought over by Gearbox Software, a company famous for developing such face-of-the-gaming-world changing franchises as Half Life, Counter Strike, Borderlands, Brothers in Arms, and Gears of War. The much awaited instalment of Duke Nukem really did take forever to make and now you can rest assured it will be on your PC, Xbox 360 or PS3 by Q4 2011, 14 years after it was first announced. With a name like Gearbox backing the franchise, and with news that most of the original 3D Realms team will be heading all things Duke there, we can be pretty sure the game will actually arrive this time. A vapourware legend, DNF was a casualty that no one ever thought would come back from the dead, though we all prayed, hard, for a while. In fact, it has been more than 10

DNF can be safely called one of the most anticipated and dreamt about games of all time, and we can all glory in the fact that the irreverent, brutish jerk that was Duke will grace our screens again - peeing, paying strippers, shooting hoops, and kicking ass. So, travel to the future, and check out the gameplay videos below, captured from the live playable demos at PAX 2010.

Section 8: Prejudice

TimeGate Studios, the makers of Fear, have announced a sequel to 2009’s Section 8, to be called Section 8: Prejudice. It’ll be out early 2011 on PC, 360 and PS3, and give a new take to the multiplayer FPS action it was acclaimed for, with new abilities and weapons, and new maps...You can check out the trailer below:

Call of Duty: Black Ops gets multiplayer and Hollywood voice talent

Activision revealed the Call of Duty: Black Ops multiplayer features at a recent event in Los Angeles. Treyarch’s Dan Bunting and David Vanderhaar explain the "compete, customize and create" theme to the affair, which included player versus bots Combat Training mode. Check it out below. In the meanwhile, Gary Oldman and Ed Harris are two big league Hollywood stars who’ve lent their voices to the game’s characters, with Oldman playing Russian Red Army squad leader Viktor Reznov, and Harris the CIA operative Jason Hudson. The big screen made another a contribution with Batman Begins film writer David S. Goyer providing "script consultation and story development support".

Treyarch studio head Mark Lamia spoke about their role in the film: "Their contributions have helped us to push the boundaries of our story telling and character development far beyond anything we have ever attempted before in the franchise."

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