Kingpin: Reloaded Has Been Delayed Until 2021

<p>Kingpin is one of those forgotten Quake 2 engine classics&period; Made by Xatrix Entertainment &lpar;who also made Redneck Rampage&rpar;&comma; it was a shockingly violent game that sold itself on the controversy surrounding it&period; Much like other 90s shooters like Duke Nukem 3D it was seen as a bad influence&period; Even so&comma; Kingpin has become a bit of a cult hit of a game&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Though most gamers will probably remember its flaws as much as its strengths&period; Developer Slipgate Ironworks &lpar;Bombshell&comma; Rad Rodgers&rpar; have taken it upon themselves to do something about this&period; Published by 3D Realms&comma; Kingpin&colon; Reloaded is a complete overhaul of the game&period; It seeks to fix the flaws of the original game&comma; make it more playable on modern PCs&comma; and of course&comma; give it some updated visuals&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-youtube layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"500" height&equals;"281" data-videoid&equals;"UhaNOpoOKVY" title&equals;"Kingpin Reloaded Before &sol; After Teaser"><a placeholder href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;UhaNOpoOKVY"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;UhaNOpoOKVY&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" layout&equals;"fill" object-fit&equals;"cover" alt&equals;"Kingpin Reloaded Before &sol; After Teaser"><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">A Delayed Remake<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Kingpin&colon; Reloaded was supposed to come out this summer&comma; but Slipgate announced today in a <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;steamcommunity&period;com&sol;games&sol;1224700&sol;announcements&sol;detail&sol;2917732722272172080" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">Steam news update<&sol;a> that due to numerous reasons it has been delayed until 2021&period; Since the source code for the original game has been lost&comma; the team decided to &&num;8220&semi;recreate&&num;8221&semi; the game in a modern engine&period; A similar approach to <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;shadow-man-remastered-announced&sol;">Nightdive&&num;8217&semi;s remakes<&sol;a> in their Kex engine&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; the developers found that this didn&&num;8217&semi;t fully recreate everything&comma; such as the original pathfinding AI&period; So their new approach is now to reverse engineer the original game&period; This way they will be essentially recreating the original source from scratch&period; This is what they have been working on for most of 2020&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The good news is that they&&num;8217&semi;ve reached a stage where they are almost finally done&period; In addition to solving the programming issues&comma; they&&num;8217&semi;ve also been making new textures&period; These have all been recreated from scratch&comma; with no AI upscaling&period; The result will probably be much better&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&NewLine;In January we&&num;8217&semi;re entering the next stage of development &&num;8211&semi; Putting it all together&comma; which is at the point where we&&num;8217&semi;ll finally be able to share more videos&comma; gameplay&comma; screenshots&comma; and open up the closed-beta&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>In addition to Kingpin Reloaded&comma; Slipgate is also involved with a remake of SiN&period; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;sin-reloaded-coming-2021-from-nightdive-and-3d-realms&sol;">SiN Reloaded<&sol;a> is being developed with Nightdive and will be published by 3D Realms&period; The game is a spiritual sequel to Duke Nukem 3D&comma; something that will be welcome in the 3D Realms roster&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;