But Gearbox’s offices on four floors also feel organized and uncluttered, grown-up. There are whole rooms full of slouching kids test-playing games, the snack closet is impressively deep, and toys line shelves. The exact location of the game’s resurrection is an office building on Park Boulevard in Plano, not far from Central Expressway. And it couldn’t have happened anywhere but Dallas. As one online commenter put it, Duke Nukem Forever is the white whale and the second gunman combined. Months before the release date, Duke Nukem Forever was one of the top trending topics on Twitter. It’s hard to exaggerate the buzz among gamers. Next month, Plano’s Gearbox Software will release the game. But now, at last, Duke Nukem Forever will have its comeback. It is as if George Lucas announced The Empire Strikes Back and then failed to produce it. Those same developers, after working for 12 years on the sequel, Duke Nukem Forever, give up. In 1996, a ragtag group of Dallas video game developers releases Duke Nukem 3D, a first-person shooter that helps define the genre, as it sells 3.5 million copies and makes its creators wealthy. Photography Nick PrendergastIt has all the trappings of a classic American tale: wild success, abject failure, and the hope of wild success again.
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