From time to time we see fan projects spring
up that take advantage of IPs that fans don't actually have the legal
right to use. Sometime they're served cease and desist letters; other
times, they're given the support of the IP owners. The latest such
project involved an attempt to remake Duke Nukem 3D using the Unreal Engine 3.
After circulating some screenshots of a test map around the Internet,
project lead Frederik Schreiber got in touch with 3D Realms' George
Broussard and Scott Miller in order to "start a conversation about the
project." Schreiber wrote on the Gearbox forums (via Big Download),
"The shots managed to convice Scott Miller to a certain degree -- But
the project was only doable if Take-Two would approve it." That led him
to get in touch with Gearbox, and the project has since been given a
personal non-commercial license to allow development to move forward.
