I was responding to tweaker69 and his vaporware remark, it pretty much threw me off your post
as for 3d realms, from what I saw at pax and from what I remember from the past years, I doubt what they have now came from gearbox... at all
they probably just polished up the graphics, worked with voice actors, and spent most of the time on working things out for the consoles, before re-re-announcing the game
and, where did you get the 12 mil thing from? I know they (allegedly) asked for 5 million from take two, but had spent 20 million out of their own pocket, which is why take two had so much trouble with the lawsuit: they didn't fund the game
I think 3dr just wanted to make it more perfect than they could, which resulted in too much time going by, which resulted in their tech getting outdated, which fucked them up the ass