On 5 July 2011, Croshaw admitted on his "Extra Punctuation" column that at one point during its long development, he was given an offer by 3D Realms developer Brian Hook to write the script for "Duke Nukem Forever". This was a response to a fan's question, following Croshaw's official review of the game, regarding a fact brought up in a 23 June episode of the TWiT Video Game Show. In the episode, "Duke Nukem Forever" developer Jay Brushwood claimed that Hook pushed for Croshaw's involvement in the project and that his piece stood out as being the funniest among the samples sent in by other writers. However, lead designer George Broussard rejected Croshaw's script for being, according to Brushwood, "too out there" and untrue to the Duke Nukem character; Croshaw later added in his column that it didn't match the game's "tone".