Randy Pitchford Announces Duke Nukem Forever's Delay (Yep..)

It's gonna come out, it's gonna come out! Wait...oh god damnit, again?! Yep, Randy Pitchford of Gearbox Software and Executive Producer of Duke Nukem Forever has announced that the long-awaited installment in the franchise has, unfortunately delayed.

"I'm very sorry for the added delay. We've all been working extremely hard and are very eager to deliver the game to you," Randy says in a statement. The release date is now going to be June 10th. Honestly, I'm not surprised. I'm not saying I'm the kind of person who goes on with the jokes about the development time of the game, but GearBox got their hands on a unfinished product so there's bound to be lots of glitches, bugs, etc.

To check out the official announcement, watch the video below. You can also see Randy's full statement over at GearBox's forums

Duke Nukem Forever's Multiplayer Detailed, Includes Slapping

The latest issue of Xbox Official Magazine has revealed multiplayer details about the long-awaited, (and we all know that it's REALLY long-awaited) Duke Nukem Forever. The modes we'll be seeing, when the game finally releases in retail are Dukematch, Team Dukematch, Capture the Babe and Hail to the King.

Hail to the King (ala King of the Hill), Dukematch and Team Dukematch are pretty self-explanatory, but Capture the Babe seems interestingly funny and entertaining. What Capture the Babe entails is the close similarity to the classic Capture the Flag game mode. The difference to this though is the fact that when you're carrying around your babe to get back to your base, she'll occasionaly start to "freak out," but with the small and gentle slap to the bum, gets her to calm down. Yeah, didn't expect that either.

Other things confirmed for multiplayer are

• Jetpacks
• Holo-duke
• 8 vs. 8 Multiplayer
• 10 Maps
• Variety of weapons such as pistol, shotgun, ripper chaingun, pipebomb, rpg, shrinker, railgun, freezer, devestator, tripbomb (confirmed by G4TV)
• Multiplayer Beta

It's awesome to see Duke Nukem Forever is finally becoming a reality, but it should be pretty damn interesting to see Duke's take on online multiplayer.