Despite being in development for over a decade Duke Nukem Forever‘s May 3rd, 2011 release date is finally approaching. While we’ve seen everything from gameplay to the collector’s edition there is still much to be known about the game. While it would be ridiculous to think that the developers will tell us everything prior to the game’s launch, some information has been trickling  out here and there.

The latest of such information focuses on the game’s campaign, more specifically how long it will be. Gearbox‘s own Randy Pitchford came forth during an interview with GTTV to let us know that it will be between 16 and 18 hours.

This is a decent amount of play time and will surely give Duke Nukem fans hours of fun. Now we just need some information on the multiplayer and we’ll be all set and, you know, a demo wouldn’t hurt.

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If you’ve been following the Command & Conquer series for a while you’re sure to know that the universe it’s set in is pretty extensive. This would lead you to think that the developers have a huge story concocted, but this doesn’t seem to be the case.

In fact, Jon Kucan has recently told CVG that they made the story up as they went:

“We knew we’d created holes that we needed to fill, so we just made it up as we went along. There was really no grand, sweeping plan and I think that’s what made it so much fun.”

I’d be interested to see how many other developers did this as well.

With every video game company releasing gobs and gobs of information at E3 there’s dozens of games to look at, but one title that has hardcore gamers excited is Dead Rising 2. The original had a compelling storyline that offered a lot of challenge balanced by a lot of fun using anything and everything on hand to dispatch hordes of slavering undead. We already knew that despite Frank West’s heroic attempts to stop the impending zombie apocalypse the outbreak wasn’t contained to the Midwestern town, with continued outbreaks of zombies across the USA.

One of the outbreaks strikes in Fortune City, essentially a fictionalized version of Las Vegas. The protagonist is Chuck Greene, former Motocross champion and single father who dotes on his daughter Katey. Since her mother is dead, this is likely to be the main plot hook of the game, with Greene working his way through the city in an attempt to rescue his daughter and then help her escape.

As before you’ll be utilizing anything and everything to slaughter your way through hordes of zombies, hordes that promise to be even greater than the original due to upgrades in the engine that’ll allow huge numbers of undead to be on the screen with very little frame drop.