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Just when it looked like they were finally getting somewhere, 3DRealms finally collapsed under the weight of its own inaction today. Joe Siegler seemed quite surprised by the news himself, so it doesn't look like this was something that had been coming for a while - possibly their publisher finally got fed up of the twelve-year wait for them to do anything at all. Most other places that mention the shutdown are quite difficult to get to at the moment as the servers strain under the added weight of the Internet directed towards them.
It's a rather sad whimpering conclusion to a company from the DOS shareware days that I grew up with, though I have to admit that they completely deserved to go, having transformed from their former glory into the industry's longest running joke. In fact, I'm not sure what miracle allowed them to even survive this long, because I can't actually remember the last time they released anything, instead rolling along downhill and punting themselves along with the occasional port or engine licence. Even though their relevance was at an end more than ten years ago, it still feels like the end of an era I grew up with, and I might have to spend some time looking at my Apogee library again this weekend.
In honour of the better times, have some music from Rise of the Triad. Because it was great.
Come to think of it, at least this frees up some people who might be able to give us a new Commander Keen game.
It's a rather sad whimpering conclusion to a company from the DOS shareware days that I grew up with, though I have to admit that they completely deserved to go, having transformed from their former glory into the industry's longest running joke. In fact, I'm not sure what miracle allowed them to even survive this long, because I can't actually remember the last time they released anything, instead rolling along downhill and punting themselves along with the occasional port or engine licence. Even though their relevance was at an end more than ten years ago, it still feels like the end of an era I grew up with, and I might have to spend some time looking at my Apogee library again this weekend.
In honour of the better times, have some music from Rise of the Triad. Because it was great.
Come to think of it, at least this frees up some people who might be able to give us a new Commander Keen game.
