3D Realms is now denying that they received an offer from Take-Two Interactive for the IP of Duke Nukem Forever. Rumors swirled last week that US$ 30 million was put on the table, but the devs are saying that these are all just that - rumors.

Game Informer's latest issue just revealed 3D Realms' "big announcement" and it appears to be headed to the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and the Windows PC. According to the insider article, the new Unreal Engine 3 title, called Earth No More, is under the development hands of Recoil Gamers - those responsible for the Max Payne series.

 

Sporting gameplay facets that include revolutionary human interaction and conversation-affected AI (reminiscent of BioWare's Mass Effect), real character growth and absolutely no gameplay ripping cutscenes, Earth No More is beset upon a "possible world," where Mother Earth fights back against humanity's constant abuse and experimentation of the environment.

And boy does she pack a whallop: the plot kicks in a small town in New England being quarantined, because of a mysterious outbreak of mutating spores and poisonous red vines (think "War of the Worlds" alien growth). The outbreak spreads and "perverts" everything it happens to cross in its wake.

The player takes on the role of Will Forsyth, a "young chap" who must get to the bottom of the outbreak with four other characters who won't necessarily serve as your "squad." "The team is intricately analyzing how group dynamics work in movies like the 'Alien, The Thing,' 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers,' and '28 Days Later,' hoping to emulate that kind of tension in game form," the developers said.

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