Afgelopen weekeinde is er game geschiedenis geschreven, want tijdens de Penny Arcade Xpo (PAX) maakte Gearbox bekend dat in 2011 Duke Nukem Forever met een vertraging van 13 jaar eindelijk zal uitkomen. Dit alles dankzij Randy Pitchford die er alles aan heeft gedaan om deze hele franchise in handen te krijgen, want The Duke is back en hoe. De website Kotaku had een interview met Randy Pitchford over het verleden, heden en de toekomst van Duke Nukem. Must read voor iedereen die zich een gamer noemt.

The ex-3D-Realms guys didn't have much hope of getting Duke Nukem Forever released. They didn't have the contractual, legal rights to release the game. But 3D Realms co-owner Scott Miller worked out an agreement with Blum so that they could continue creating Duke Nukem Forever, Pitchford said. They could work on the game. But with lawsuits flying, who was going to put this thing out? Miller contacted Pitchford to see if the latter could turn this project into a reality.

"I kind of got myself in the middle there," Pitchford recalled. The Gearbox boss didn't want to go into all the details at PAX of the business deal that would revive Duke. He offered the abbreviated version.

"The short story of it is: Because of my history with Duke, because of my relationship with Scott and George, because of the trust and respect that Gearbox and Take Two were able to build through our work together with Borderlands, and through the capabilities that I have built with my team to be able to ship games on these platforms - because of all of these things, I was in a spot that, if I took a bet and got in there and put myself in the line of fire in the middle of this thing, I knew that I could bring all these pieces together and that I could save Duke.