Duke Nukem 3D Confirmed for Android Platform

The popular Duke Nukem franchise will soon be ported on the Android platform, after MachineWorks NorthWest and Tapjoy have announced a partnership to bring the highly-acclaimed shooter game on Android devices.

Given the popularity of the video game, owners of the franchise decided to make it available for Apple's iPhone smartphone, but it also made it on HP's TouchPad tablet.

Released back in 1991, it took Duke Nukem 20 years to make the jump on the Android operating system.

Those unfamiliar with the franchise should know that the third installment of the game series, Duke Nukem 3D is a first-person shooter game.

The story of the game takes place in Los Angeles in a time when mutated humans and aliens are trying to conquer the world.

Players will have to fight waves of enemies in an attempt to stop the alien invasion meant to obliterate all humanity.

“Duke Nukem is a legend in his own time, and he’d be the first person to tell you that. MachineWorks NorthWest has done a great job of bringing the brash, trash-talking character and all his ass-kicking glory to the mobile environment, and we are thrilled to be working with AAA studios like MachineWorks to help bring games of this caliber to Android,” said Rob Carroll, Tapjoy’s Director of Publishing for Tapjoy.

The game offers players an array of increasingly sophisticated weapons in order to defeat aliens and mutated humans.

Under agreement, Tapjoy is to provide MachineWorks Northwest with dev support to help move Duke Nukem 3D from iOS to Android.

“Tapjoy was the ideal partner to help us launch Duke Nukem 3D on Android. The resources they provided were invaluable, but even more important was the level of PR expertise and inside knowledge they brought to the partnership. We wouldn’t have accomplished this launch nearly as fast or as successfully without their help,” said Andreas Vahsen, CEO and Founder at MachineWorks NorthWest.

According to Tapjoy, Duke Nukem 3D will make its debut in the Android Market “very”, thus marking the first time any of the Duke Nukem titles are available on Google's mobile platform.