Duke Nukem Forever Demo Is “An Important Thing To Do”

Randy Pitchford, head of Gearbox Software, has said that a Duke Nukem Forever demo is an “important” part of marketing the game, and that the developer can begin to work on a release date for the demo after DNF’s recent unveiling at PAX 2010.

“I think that is an important thing to do,” said Pitchford to VG247 when he was asked about the possibility of a demo.

“Now that the cat’s out of the bag we can actually make those plans. Now we can get with retailers and figure out the launch window, and figure out demo timing, and work with the first-parties on that.

“We weren’t able to do that until this point, because if we did we risked damaging it even further,” he added.

However, Gearbox co-founder Brian Martel was a little less revealing about this demo, and simply told VG247, “I don’t know anything about that,” after the PAX 2010 announcement.

Gearbox Software, in case you haven’t yet been made aware, announced that it gained the rights to the Duke Nukem IP from 3D Realms, the original developer.

Duke Nukem Forever has been confirmed to be releasing in 2011 on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox360.

As soon as we hear more about this demo, we’ll let you know, because we have a feeling that it has a chance of being the most downloaded and played demo in the history of the universe.