'Ludicrous gibs' fly again: Rise of the Triad reboot announced @ Gaming Target

Written by John Scalzo on August 25, 2009

News: Along with 12 new projects at 3D Realms.

Duke Nukem 3D practically personified the first person shooter in the mid 90s. But his creator, 3D Realms, has followed a path similar to the undead enemies commonly found in Duke's rival, the Doom series. They just will not die.

Even after the word came down that development on Duke Nukem Forever had halted, 3D Realms lived on. Even after the game's entire development team was laid off, 3D Realms lived on. Even after a legal battle began between the company and publisher 2K Games, 3D Realms lived on. And even today, 3D Realms' founder Scott Miller is sitting down for an interview with Gamasutra and talking about the company's future, including the 12 projects they're working on (interestingly enough, it's been 12 years since DNF was first announced).

"Our future is fine," founder Scott Miller said in a recent in-depth feature interview with Gamasutra. "We have, I think at last count, 11 or 12 projects in the works."

Miller then revealed that two of those projects are iPhone games while others are "major" projects.

While Miller wouldn't talk about those "major" projects, he did mention Apogee Software (3D Realms' original nom de game) is working on a reboot of Rise of the Triad.

"The [Apogee] name was licensed out about a year ago to a team including a former Apogee staffer. They're reviving the Apogee label, the Apogee name, and they're doing a Duke Nukem Trilogy of games on the DS and PSP. They're also going to reboot the Rise of the Triad franchise, plus they have some other original titles that they're going to be doing."

Rise of the Triad was an absolutely insane first person shooter released by 3D Realms in 1994. It featured members of the HUNT (High-risk United Nations Taskforce) infiltrating a Nazi-like cult to stop a deranged madman. The game's wide variety of weapons and explosives (which resulted in "ludicrous gibs" AKA flying blood and guts) made it an instant cult classic.

Sadly, no other details about the reboot were revealed.