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Ten Massively Expensive Video Game Failures

December 1, 2015 by Dennis Patrick

Big budget video games are big gambles. Here are the video game industry’s ten most expensive failures.

#9 Duke Nukem Forever

Duke Nukem Forever, a video game that probably would have been best left dead. I’m not entirely sure if there’s anything I can honestly say that hasn’t been talked about and reported on when the game originally released back in 2011. This is almost like opening old wounds again, but Duke Nukem Forever was just bad at a visual and gameplay standpoint. Players take on the role of Duke Nukem once again as he fights off an alien threat, much like the past video game installments.  After years of waiting for Duke Nukem Forever to release and an estimated $30,000,000 spent for its budget, the game was barely picked up with around 300,000 units sold in its first three months. Even Take-Two Interactive revealed that the game sales were half of their initial expectations leaving Duke Nukem Forever a video game that is well known and barely played.

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