One guy gathered some evidence, and has come to the conclusion that he believe 3DRealms faked their closure just to promote Duke Nukem Forever. It really wouldn't surprise me, but I don't see that as being true. I think 3DRealms is closed and are staying closed.

Anyone who knows me on this site knows I'm one of the most unconspiratorial Redditors left on the site. None the less, check this out.

The domain was registered on 5/7/09, the very same day that 3DRealms announced it was closing. Furthermore, if I recall, that news did not break to the internet at large until very late in the day - sometime in the evening. I haven't registered many domains in my time, but in my experience, it takes at least a few hours to process, up to around 24 hours.

And look at the flow of "leaked" videos and pictures that have been absolutely STREAMING out of 3DRealms in the last four days. There's been more Duke Nukem activity since Duke died than in the last several years of development. And the forums have been filled with people looking at said material and lamenting Duke's doom.

Apparently, we're supposed to believe that 3DRealms has been sitting on all this kickass footage that could have been used to generate HUGE amounts of buzz... and yet did absolutely nothing with it, even as their company was falling apart from beneath them, just a few months after announcing (again) that DNF was about to be released.

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