Last weekend, some of the attendees who managed to wait through long lines at PAX Prime 2010 got a chance to play a small portion of Duke Nukem Forever for the first time in the game's 13+ development cycle. But will the rest of the general public get a chance to sample this long awaited shooter via a free demo?

VG247.com put that question to Gearbox Software's Randy Pitchford who stated, "I think that is an important thing to do ..." Now that the game is officially back in development, Pitchford said, " ... we can actually make those plans. No (sic) we can get with retailers and figure out the launch window, and figure out demo timing, and work with the first-parties on that." Indeed retailers have been kept in the dark that Duke Nukem Forever was back in development until the morning of the game's re-reveal this past Friday, Pitchford stated, "We weren't able to do that until this point, because if we did we risked damaging it even further."