As of today, Epic Games’ Unreal series is available on Steam.
The entire series is available as a package deal for $59.99. It includes Unreal Gold, Unreal 2: The Awakening, Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition, Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor’s Choice Edition, and Unreal Tournament 3.
You can also snag them individually. UT: GOTY is a paltry $8.95, which is not much to pay for a game that had arguably the best CTF action in a decade (in my opinion, of course).
The latest issue of GamePro has news about Microsoft closing a deal to acquire Gears of War developer Epic Games; allegedly, the deal could cost as much as as $1 billion dollars.
Hold on, let me get my giant mound of salt. Okay.
If this turns out to be true, Microsoft would own the much hyped and Epic-developed Unreal Engine 3, used in the already mentioned Gears of War and Unreal Tournament 3.
Right now, this is just a rumor due to many reasons, obviously, and the price is only one of them. DevelopMag has Internet quote machine (and Epic VP) Mark Rein saying that the billion dollar rumor is only half of what Epic is really worth. Continued…
The crew over at ClanBase has interviewed superstar game designer CliffyB about e-Sports, the gaming industry, and his gaming background. This is the first of many more mainstream interviews that ClanBase plans, so check this excerpt and head over there for the full story.
ClanBase: Do you see competitive gaming as a sport?
Turn on ESPN late at night and tell me what you see. Trick shot pool. Log cutting. Poker. I believe that if a part of your body is moving, your brain is engaged, and people are willing to watch then it’s a sport.
Epic is at it again by releasing a changelog to the new beta patch for Unreal Tournament 3, version 1.2. It’s worth noting that this patch isn’t yet released, so this serves only as a preview for you loyal UT3 owners out there (sadly, the game is a dismal seller).
The changes are as follows:
Gameplay:
- Increased UTGame MaxPlayersAllowed to 64.
- Fixed leviathan turret instant refire exploit.
- Fixed errant lock on warnings when no longer in vehicle.
- Fixed first person weapons in demo playback.
- Fixed translocator telefrag victim message.
- Fixed encouragement sounds not being randomly picked by bots.
- Implemented viewobjective spectating system for Warfare.
- Fixed berserk held by driver applying to all vehicle turrets.
- Only force low gore on German versions that were low gore only before being patched. Continued…
GGL Wire’s Khonsu sends along this news about the 50Cal UT3 competition.
50 Calibre is hosting a free Unreal Tournament 3 Beta 1v1 competition Wednesday and Thursday (Oct. 24-25) and GGL Wire’s Rob Khonsu will be providing video on demand coverage of the evening matches. The first place finisher gets his pick of Unreal Tournament 3 for the PC, a SteelSeries SteelKeys 6G Pro-Gaming Keyboard, or a SteelSeries QCK+ Pro-Gaming Mousepad. Continued…
After a long wait, the UT3 demo is finally out. Those of you with underpowered PCs, commence crying immediately. The demo allows online play and bot matches.
Find a list of mirrors after the jump (thanks to Nicky at ESR): Continued…
Epic Games has acquired a majority stake in People Can Fly, the developer behind Painkiller. The two companies first began collaborating on the PC version of Gears of War.
Besides GoW PC, the Epic and PCF are working on an undisclosed IP, which will be previewed to publishers at the Lepzig Games Convention. Continued…
Epic games today it will add GameSpy’s server browsing technology to Unreal Engine 3, enabling PlayStation 3 and PC cross-platform play. Update: Epic is still undecided about cross-platform play for the upcoming Unreal Tournament 3. Since all Unreal Tournament 3 players on the PS3 and PC will be able to use keyboards and mice, there should finally be parity between the two player bases. Continued…
As we reported earlier, Too Human developer Silicon Knights sued Epic Games, alleging that Epic sabotaged development of Too Human in favor of their own competing title, Gears of War.
Today Epic Games’ vice president Mark Rein responded, releasing a statement to the gaming media. Epic is counter-suing, claiming SK “misappropriate[d] Epic’s licensed technology.” Epic claims the SK lawsuit “lacks factual or legal merit.” Continued…
