Found the following two links via today's
Penny Arcade (in response to
this current event). The articles themselves are a month or two old, though.
"The Storm""The Storm (part two)"As Tycho says, none of this stuff is anything new. That's just the way it is these days. Doesn't make it
right, of course, just that this is how it is. The only thing surprising about this
Duke Nukem Forever fiasco was that the moron in question was brazen enough to publicly tweet about it. I very seriously doubt that 2K Games would have had any problems whatsoever with the methods practiced by the Redner Group had the Redner Group not stupidly said out loud that that's what they were going to do, though.
(As far as Duke Nukem is concerned, I've had little use for the character or the games he stars in after he literally made good on his threat to
"rip your head off and shit down your neck" to the boss at the end of one of the episodes of
Duke Nukem 3D. From the way it sounds,
Duke Nukem Forever is
even worse in that sense, if that's even possible. Oh wait, no,
it's absolutely possible. *sigh* Whatever happened to the
good old days?)