Just over year ago, it looked as though the world had seen the last of Duke Nukem. The cigar-chomping, gun-totin' shooter icon who once towered above the FPS genre looked set for the dustbins of history after developer 3D Realms shut down and laid of its staff due to funding issues. The demise of Duke Nukem Forever didn't raise too many eyebrows. After all, this was a game that had been in development for the better part of 13 years, so the announcement by the game's publisher, Take Two, that it was never going to see the light of day wasn't too hard to believe.
