"3D Realms chief Scott Miller tells Next-Gen that development on the long-awaited Duke Nukem Forever is moving right along, but he sees no reason to show it off at an "irrelevant" E3.

Asked about the progress on the years-in-development Duke Nukem Forever, Miller stated Friday in an e-mail, "Development is swimming along nicely. Seriously nicely."

Nevertheless, even with the apparent progress made on the game, Miller won't be taking it to next month's E3 Media and Business Summit. "It's ..."

"From developer Silicon Knights (Eternal Darkness, Blood Omen), Too Human is an action title with strong RPG elements, a rich storyline and co-operative play over Xbox LIVE. Having been in development in some form since the days of the original PlayStation a firm release date will come as quite a relief for many gamers."

"I have seen it. Maarten has seen it. We watched actual interactive gameplay being interacted with.

Of course, we are far from the first to make such a claim. During 3D Realms' lengthy development cycle of Duke Nukem Forever here in the Dallas area, I have run in to my fair share of publishers and developers who boast they have gotten a glimpse of the game.

To be honest, I thought the game's supposed existence was a vast conspiracy. More than a couple of times over the last decade I ha..."

"- Scott jokes about Duke dying in the end, and goes on to say most of the weapons from Duke3D are back in DNF. Also, Duke is still a controversial character because the company is trying to retain his bad-ass image.

- Scott admits the project's come along roughly, but once again uses his "end of the tunnel" metaphor to say the game might finally be on the right track. 2008, here we come."

"Official Statement:
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....
(Full statement at source)"

"Garland-based video games developer 3D Realms has said Duke Nukem Forever, the highly anticipated sequel to its revolutionary 1996 PC game Duke Nukem 3D, is projected to be completed in late 2008, with versions likely for Microsoft's Xbox 360, Sony's PlayStation 3 home video game consoles and personal computers."

"Everyone loves Christmas presents and 3D Realms have delivered dutifully. Out of nowhere, (early this morning) the developers behind the ever elusive Duke Nukem Forever title stated that today would see a teaser trailer. Posted with the news was a rendered shot of Duke and it sent the internet into overload, so much so that their official website has been up and down the past two days. A few hours ago saw the release of the trailer and you can see it here. There’s a lot more than meets the ey..."

"After seeing the teaser we thought it was something we should share with all of you and while it's just a teaser, rest assured more is coming.

Tomorrow, Wednesday the 19th, around noon CST, we will release the first teaser trailer from Duke Nukem Forever. To tide you over until then, there has been a screen shot taken from the teaser and posted in our forums."