Epic head honcho Mark Rein announced via the Unreal Tournament 3 forums that the anticipated next step for the series will have a beta demo available for PC users as early as this week. From the post:
Folks,
Just wanted to give you a heads’ up that we’re getting pretty close to releasing the Unreal Tournament 3 Beta Demo for Windows. The Beta Demo will allow instant action play against bots as well as online multiplayer. The purpose of the Beta Demo is to test the game on a large variety of hardware configurations and get gameplay feedback from the community. The development team feels they’re pretty close to being ready to release this so it could come out this week but for safety sake I’d say it should be out within two weeks.
We have a few fan sites in tomorrow to play the full game and I’m sure they’ll be sharing their comments pretty soon afterward.
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Since the PlayStation 3 version of Unreal Tournament 3 has been delayed, your only chance to get your UT fix this fall will be on the PC. Take a look at the system specs that were just released for it:
Minimum System Requirements
* Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista
* 2.0+ GHZ Single Core Processor
* 512 Mbytes of System RAM
* NVIDIA 6200+ or ATI Radeon 9600+ Video Card
* 8 GB of Free Hard Drive Space
Recommended System Requirements
* 2.4+ GHZ Dual Core Processor
* 1 GBytes of System RAM
* NVIDIA 7800GTX+ or ATI x1300+ Video Card
* 8 GB of Free Hard Drive Space
Over my past few years as a tech journalist, I’ve come across the Novint Falcon many times and the same thought still sifts through my mind as I was faced with it here at DigitalLife: It’s a cool concept and fun to play around with, but for actual mainstream gaming use it’s useless. This mammoth motion-feedback controller is designed to make its users feel more immersed in the environment, but because it’s so free floating, trying to achieve a proper level of accuracy is impossible for the fickle PC gaming audience.
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Starting today, just 999 lucky Koreans are getting a brief closed beta experience with the upcoming FPS MMORPG Huxley for the PC (Xbox 360 version comes in 2008). Lasting just five short days, these proud gamers will start at level 19 and test the game’s “team death match and radar domination modes, along with more of the core structure of the MMO aspects, such as quest mode.”
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