[Rumor] Valve's E3 Surprise is.....DUKE NUKEM

[EnigmaXtreme]

Wooo boy. It’s tin-foil hat time, folks. With speculation over Valve’s surprise E3 announcement, there’s been a flood of pictures and information purporting to be the genuine article.

None have been quite as juicy – or frankly, unlikely, as this. Current unfounded rumours speculate that Valve’s big surprise is that they’ve acquired, and will release Duke Nukem Forever.

Valve’s main page was apparently updated yesterday, and for a grand total of four minutes, displayed a page with just the numbers “61810.” Some believe this to be a date, the 18th of June. Strangely, that’s the day after E3 ends. Even more curiously, somebody apparently manipulated the image, increasing its brightness, ultimately leading to this :

That looks curiously like the Duke, doesn’t it? Also interesting are the Take 2 logos, and the Source logo that’s been appended with a 2. Is Valve bringing us a new engine. Source, while fantastic and modular is producing games that are looking a little dated.

Is it possible that Valve snapped up the rights from now defunct 3D Realms, and will be bringing us Duke Nukem Forever on a new Source engine? I find it rather unlikely. Valve have enough to do to keep their Half-Life fan base happy – they need episode 3, or even Half Life 3, and they need it soon. Duke Nukem Forever is also currently at the centre of a large legal battle. The IP is still owned by 3D Realms.

Valve are also generally much better at these sort of games. they tend to be pretty clever, using all manner of ways to encrypt their communiqué. this seems much too basic for them.

I’m calling this bogus – but it’s nice to have hope, isn’t it? what do you think? could it be real? What do YOU think Valve’s big announcement will be?

Source: http://www.lazygamer.co.za/xbox-360/valves...-it-duke-nukem/

 

[Minox]

Don't tell me you did not notice the "/v/ - The Vidya" tab open in these pictures? Sounds like a 4chan trolling attempt to me.

Spoiler

[titleriginal pictures]

 

[zeromac]

I call bullshit

 

[EnigmaXtreme]

e3 brings the crazy out of all of us

 

[raulpica]

Don't tell me you did not notice the "/v/ - The Vidya" tab open in these pictures? Sounds like a 4chan trolling attempt to me.

This thing's been up only for 4 minutes. This guy probably rushed to 4chan to post a screenshot.
"zomg 1st!!1one"

 

[squall23]

Yeah, because you know, a guy with glasses can't be GORDAN FREEMAN.

 

[Neko]

Yeah, because you know, a guy with glasses can't be GORDAN FREEMAN.

Actually, you are partially right.
The glasses look alot like the one Gordon wears, the body itself looks like the duke though.

 

[Beats]

It can't be HL2:EP3 / HL3. Take 2 or EA never worked on it.

 

[Deleted-171178]

To me it looks like a guy who has had a nuke set off in their head.
Or it imploded.

 

[Neko]

It can't be HL2:EP3 / HL3. Take 2 or EA never worked on it.

EA Published the retail versions of EP1/EP2/OB

 

[zeromac]

All this guy did was set change the contrast of his screen

 

[Feels Good Man]

Whoever thinks this is real is -_____________________-

Someone close this topic.

 

[worlok375]

That guys head...looks like a fish's mouth that's somehow going strait up.

 

[shakirmoledina]

this game has become more of a legendary release than actually something that people want... even arnold has left the movie business

 

[Range-TE]

i don't see why duke nukem forever couldn't be on this year's E3, *remembers what has happened to the project the past decade*.... oh, right....

 

[mrfatso]

woah, i do wonder if that's true, if so..will there be another game out there that will challenge and steal nukem's record?

 

[Elritha]

Why only 4 minutes and is this the only -image-? I'd call it fake, the image could easily have been manipulated.