Duke Nukem Will Return (Again), and Other Odd Stories from the Week

The just released Duke Nukem Forever has received some of the harshest reviews in game history. Despite this Duke Nukem 3D: Reloaded will be released this fall. This is not going to end well.

Other odds and ends from the week that was:

• Duke Nukem For Never? Pity Interceptor Entertainment. The company has nothing to do with 2K Games or its now epic fail of a game. Despite that, IE's Duke Nukem 3D: Reloaded The Sequel Die Harder is going to suffer some serious brand fallout. Sad part is it is guaranteed to be a better game. It couldn't be worse.
• Pride & Prejudice the game: Once Tern Digital finishes turning the classic John Buchan spy novel The Thirty Nine Steps into a video game, it hopes to do the same to other out-of-copyright titles like Wuthering Heights, Great Expectations, 1984, Treasure Island, and Jekyll and Hyde. How about King Lear or Macbeth? There's more than enough violence for the average gamer in them.
• Electronic Arts beats John Dillinger: EA sued Dillinger's estate over copyright violation issues in the Godfather video game series. The family was threatening EA with litigation for using "Dillinger" as the name of a weapon in theGodfather video games. The Indiana Supreme Court agreed with EA. Moral: Never bring guns to a lawyer fight.
• Go The F*** To Court: Ricardo Cortes, illustrator of the inexplicably popular Go The F*** To Sleep, has put out Jury Independence Illustrated. The booklet is about the problems of the soaring rate of non-violent drug convictions. It's designed to teach jurors about their ability to use jury nullification to put an end to these cases. I can't wait for the video game.
• DirecTV makes a TV remote that kills germs: Its Residential Experience for Hotels service includes what it claims is the world's first anti-microbial remote control. Now if it could just make anti-microbial sheets.