The franchise generated over $1 billion in revenue by 2001. The first two games in the main series were 2D platformers, while the later games have been a mix of first-person and third-person shooters.ĭuring 2010 the rights of the series were acquired by Gearbox Software, who completed the development of Duke Nukem Forever and released it on 10 June 2011 in Europe and Australia and on 14 June 2011 in North America. (now 3D Realms) as a series of video games for IBM-compatible personal computers, the series expanded to games released for various consoles by third-party developers.
Created by the company Apogee Software Ltd. MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Sega Saturn, Nintendo 64, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 4,, PlayStation, Sega Mega Drive, Xbox Live Arcade, iOS, PlayStation 3, Android, Linux, Xbox 360, Nintendo DSĭuke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tourĭuke Nukem is a video game series named for its protagonist, Duke Nukem.
