17th April 2014, 11:26 PM
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/3d-real...0-6418049/
This actually happened in early March, but I didn't notice... argh. :S
Interceptor made last year's decent but not amazing Rise of the Triad remake. 3DR has, of course, been in deep trouble and with almost no staff ever since they ran out of money near the end of Duke Nukem Forever's development, so I doubt that this cost much except for IP costs, but still... I know that it really happened some years back, but Apogee was a huge part of gaming for me for years. In the first half of the '90s, Apogee was, of course, my favorite shareware developer, and I played a lot of shareware games. You had to take sides of course, Apogee or Epic MegaGames... and I was very much on Apogee's side. Epic had some good games, but Apogee had more. Once Apogee became 3DR and moved over to FPSes I stopped caring as much since I don't love FPSes like I do platformers, but still, I kept following them even if I've barely gotten past the first couple of levels of any of their FPSes, honestly. Ididn't buy any for more than a few bucks, but now I have the Blake Stone games, Rise of the Triad, Duke 3D, Shadow Warrior, and DNF... all of Apogee/3DR's internally developed FPSes.
But even so, I definitely like the company a lot because of their shareware games from the late '80s to mid '90s. So yeah, them getting bought up by some random team who has made some ports of 3DR FPSes and that one okay but not great original title... well, we'll see. I know that right now Gearbox and Interceptor are suing eachother over who owns the rights to Duke Nukem. Who knows how that will turn out. Either way, it can't get much WORSE than it is now, for sure, given how 3DR is essentially dead. However, last year's other 3DR reboot, the new Shadow Warrior game, is supposed to be better than Rise of the Triad (2013), so I hope we get more stuff like that.
This actually happened in early March, but I didn't notice... argh. :S
Interceptor made last year's decent but not amazing Rise of the Triad remake. 3DR has, of course, been in deep trouble and with almost no staff ever since they ran out of money near the end of Duke Nukem Forever's development, so I doubt that this cost much except for IP costs, but still... I know that it really happened some years back, but Apogee was a huge part of gaming for me for years. In the first half of the '90s, Apogee was, of course, my favorite shareware developer, and I played a lot of shareware games. You had to take sides of course, Apogee or Epic MegaGames... and I was very much on Apogee's side. Epic had some good games, but Apogee had more. Once Apogee became 3DR and moved over to FPSes I stopped caring as much since I don't love FPSes like I do platformers, but still, I kept following them even if I've barely gotten past the first couple of levels of any of their FPSes, honestly. Ididn't buy any for more than a few bucks, but now I have the Blake Stone games, Rise of the Triad, Duke 3D, Shadow Warrior, and DNF... all of Apogee/3DR's internally developed FPSes.
But even so, I definitely like the company a lot because of their shareware games from the late '80s to mid '90s. So yeah, them getting bought up by some random team who has made some ports of 3DR FPSes and that one okay but not great original title... well, we'll see. I know that right now Gearbox and Interceptor are suing eachother over who owns the rights to Duke Nukem. Who knows how that will turn out. Either way, it can't get much WORSE than it is now, for sure, given how 3DR is essentially dead. However, last year's other 3DR reboot, the new Shadow Warrior game, is supposed to be better than Rise of the Triad (2013), so I hope we get more stuff like that.
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