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…
Speculation in the online game space is the most dangerous thing this side of wall hackers and no game is safe from its evil grasp. Such is the case in the latest little bit of controversy surrounding Unreal Tournament 3 and remarks made by Epic VP Mark Rein when speaking on Epic’s forums about when the game is specifically coming out — all we knew is that it was coming out in November.
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At Games Convention 2007 in Leipzig, two very anticipated titles were shown. Team Fortress 2 and Unreal Tournament 3 - which of those titles will be the future of esports? I have played both games but only loved one. And it was not UT3.
The following piece cannot be the ultimate judgment of UT3 - I did not get as much playtime as I would have wished, I played with and against random people. Despite this, the following will hopefully give you a decent impression of what to expect of the game, at least as far as competition goes.
The main difference between Unreal Tournament 3 and Team Fortress 2 is that UT3 seems like it was designed to be fun for people with no talent and TF2 was designed to be fun. (I will write about TF2 later, in the interim go watch our preview.) Epic’s flagship for UT3 is Warfare, a mode similar to Onslaught. Continued…
Unreal Tournament 3 was playable at Games Convention 2007 and Mark Rein, the vice-president of Epic, was there to do presentations of the game. Things got amusingly wrong in the presentation we recorded.
The flagship mode for UT3 will be Warfare - very similar in general to Onslaught from UT2004. It’s going to be vehicles meets objectives, meets CTF. This is what the public got to play in Leipzig and this is what Epic was showing off for GIGA2 television.
We were there, we played the game (and will bring you a write-up on it tomorrow), but for now the video will have to be enough:
Epic VP Mark Rein says that the Xbox 360’s DVDs are cramping Unreal Tournament 3’s style as compared to the Blu-ray PlayStation 3 version.
“We’ll compress some things. But you know, we may have fewer maps on the 360 version … Blu-ray has definitely given us a lot of legroom,” said Rein at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival. Continued…
