While speaking on what went right with the recently released Unreal Tournament 3, Epic Games President Mike Capps revealed a sentiment not at all unfamiliar to long-time UT gamers: "Unreal Tournament 2003 was a misstep."
After 7 years of hard work, the creator of the "Out of Hell" Mod for Unreal Tournament 2004 is finally done. He now released the final build of the modification which features hours of single-player action against zombies.
Over the past few days Steam has seen a number of new titles and special offers. Game-Pad.net summarise some of the main releases and bargains this weekend.
Koku Gamer writes: 'Contestants at 2K Games' BotPrize 2009 competition have failed to win AU$7,000 after not being able to fool a panel of expert judges that their bots were humans.'
Digital games service Good Old Games is now offering its catalog of Unreal titles for a bit less money. Four of the games in the venerable series are 15% cheaper for the rest of the week.
GD: "Now through the 4th of July weekend, Impulse is giving PC gamers a chance to pick up several solid titles and bundles including Call of Duty 4, Flock!, Sins of a Solar Empire and more for varying discounts.
The free Unreal Tournament III Black weekend announced by Epic Games has begun and is now available for anyone with a Steam account to play through Sunday.
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Killing Floor (a popular UT 2004 mod) will get an updated, standalone release on Steam with Tripwire Interactive at the helm.
This mod from the Mars Wars Team is designed to bring back the gameplay of Red Faction. Gametypes featured include Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, Rail Arena and more.