Cancelled Duke Nukem Game Code Found in Library of Congress

A disc containing the source code and all necessary assets for a cancelled Duke Nukem game was recently found by a Moving Image technician in the Library of Congress.

Technician David Gibson explains that the Library's Moving Image section has "served as a custodial unit for games," archiving everything from printed materials and gameplay videos to copies of published games in one collection. As such, he wasn't too shocked to find a disc containing source code for a game. That is, until he discovered what rare code the disc held.

The disc was a regular-looking DVD-R containing a file directory that included every asset necessary to make a version of Duke Nukem: Critical Mass for the PSP. "I realized then that in my computer was the source disc used to author the UMD for an unreleased PlayStation Portable game," he says. "I could feel the lump in my throat. I felt as though I had solved the wizard's riddle and unlocked the secret door."

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