Following yesterday's news about the resurrection of Apogee Software, Deep Silver today announced it will co-publish the Duke Nukem Trilogy (NDS, PSP).

Deep Silver has mostly been a European distributor since its founding in 2002, but the Koch Media subsidiary recently expanded into North America. Among other games, it will publish the upcoming S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky.

Apogee Software, a prominent publisher of independent PC games back in the early 1990s, today announced that it is re-establishing itself as a publishing and production company. The pioneer of shareware software, where a large chunk of a game (usually the first of a game's three episodes) was given away as a teaser with other installments available upon payment, Apogee had not published a game since 1996's Stargunner. After 1994, the company mostly used the 3D Realms name.

Apogee also immediately announced its first new title in Duke Nukem Trilogy, an episodic project for Nintendo DS and PSP. The Trilogy will consist of three episodes: Critical Mass, Chain Reaction, and Proving Grounds. These games, which will share a common storyline, will be released sequentially, starting during the summer of 2009.

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