Duke Nukem Wtf!?!?!

Duke Nukem Wtf!?!?! "No Way"

#1 Posted 02 April 2008 - 06:36 PM

Have you seen this character before?

http://www.turner.co...tatic/duke.html

omg, crackers!

#2 Posted 02 April 2008 - 07:15 PM

Dude yeah!! Thats the, "Duke Nukem" from the old captain planet cartoon... I always get pictures and news articles on him when I search in Wikipedia.. its kinda annoying cause I'm looking for articles on Duke 3D..

Micki!

Candy Consumptionist & Administrator

#3 Posted 03 April 2008 - 11:01 PM

Yeah, there was a hassle years ago, with sueing and stuff about the ownership of the name...

Havoc 05

#4 Posted 06 April 2008 - 09:52 AM

Yeah... And what about Duke, "Nukum" Now why did they call him that for the first game?

Micki!

Candy Consumptionist & Administrator

#5 Posted 06 April 2008 - 10:30 PM

Because of possible copyright infringement, using the same name would cause stress against whatever company uses it... So, appearantly the name was already used...

By the time of the sequel, they realized that there was no, erhm, patent (..?) on the name, which makes it freely usable to anyone... Of course, they used the name then, and bought it as well... It even ended up in a legal conflict between 3DR and Turner Broadcasting once... (3DR won the case though)

That's how i reckon it all was, someone may correct my if there's anything more to add, or if i said something wrong...