Pitchford was in a unique position to bring Duke back to life. 'I moved out to Texas 15 years ago to work on 'Duke Nukem 3D,'' Pitchford says. pulled the plug on the long-in-development 'Duke Nukem Forever' last year, most observers in the video-game industry thought they'd seen the last of its titular hero.īut you can't keep a bad man down - and last weekend, the cigar-chomping, beer-swilling tough guy staggered back to life at the Seattle fan-fest Penny Arcade Expo.ĭuke's unlikely savior is Randy Pitchford, founder of 'Borderlands' and 'Brother in Arms' developer Gearbox Software.
