Nov 8, 2007 There's been a lot of excellent shooters releasing recently, but we still have Unreal Tournament 3 to look forward to later this November. It looks like what will make UT 3 a blast will be the same things that made its many predecessors the choicest shooters for so many headshot-hungry frag-fiends over the years. At its core, blowing strangers around the world to smithereens on fun maps with ridiculous guns and insane vehicles is still the star of UT 3's bloody show, but look at ... » Read More

Unreal Tournament 3 will be released in Europe for the PC on 23rd November, Midway confirmed this afternoon ahead of an official launch event in sunny Birmingham tomorrow.

Sadly there's no word on the PS3 version as of yet, with a Midway spokesperson telling Eurogamer that Epic Games calls the shots on that one and we'll know when they decide to tell us.
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A number of German PC websites have received a press release from Midway Germany stating that Unreal Tournament 3 will be released in Germany on 12 November:

"We want to thank the true German fans of this franchise with the early release. And that the German community added a huge part of the UT franchise's sucess in the past."

Keep in mind this will be the slightly altered, less violent version of Unreal Tournament 3 as required by German law. In addition to the removal of gore, this version features German text/speech and will not be multilingual.
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Elsewhere in the call following its results, Midway CEO David F. Zucker said the company has learned from the development process of Stranglehold and Unreal Tournament 3, and that the company's multiplatform releases would be more promptly synchronized going forward.

The Midway CEO concluded of the issues: "We do believe that these technical issues are now complete at a core level in our engine. Looking ahead to 2008, we expect the PS3 versions of our titles to ship day and date..." with the Xbox 360 and other SKUs.

Zucker hinted at an "ambitious open-world game" from Midway, to be announced shortly, and said to be one of the highlights of their upcoming slate. However, no other information was given.
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Major publisher Midway Games has announced that, for the three-month period ending September 30, 2007, its sales totaled $36.7 million, up from $27.4 million last year. At the same time, however, the company reported losses of $33.5 million, increased from $22.5 million in 2006.

As for highlights, the company said that Xbox 360 and PC title Stranglehold has exceeded 1 million units shipped worldwide across all platforms, and the company anticipates shipping Stranglehold for the PS3 in Europe in the latter part of November.

Midway also highlighted its recent demo of Unreal Tournament 3 in conjunction with developer Epic Games, since a demo of Unreal Tournament 3 for the PC was recently released, and has remained one of the top 2 most downloaded games on FilePlanet.com since it was released on October 12th. However, the PS3 version of the title is still due in 2008, as confirmed earlier last month.
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Midway and Epic today announced that Unreal Tournament 3 has gone to gold master for the PC. Developed by the team behind the critically acclaimed video game Gears of War, Unreal Tournament 3 is currently scheduled to ship in North America on November 19th for the PC with a suggested retail price of $49.95 and $59.95 for the collector's edition. The PlayStation 3 version will follow soon.
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Midway has revealed that the highly anticipated PC version of Unreal Tournament 3 will be released in North America on November 19. European gamers won't have to wait too long either, with the game set to arrive on our shores towards the end of the month.
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The official Unreal Tournament website has been updated with a lot of new content such as new vehicles, weapons and characters information, and more.

Although not completely finished,you can still continue to download movies and view high-resolution screen shots.
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Oct 26, 2007 Inside an office in sunny Raleigh, North Carolina, Epic vice president Mark Rein settles back into a comfy seat. "It all started way back in the stone age," he begins. "You know, Tim Sweeney started the company in his parents' basement in Maryland." Today Epic is out of the basement and has the two monster-sized games Unreal Tournament 3 and Gears of War (PC) in development. Outside of Mark's office, staff members play on the Epic basketball court, others help themselves to a ... » Read More

Gameplayer received a release schedule this morning that confirms that we will be getting some, if not all, Unreal Tournament III action this year!

The announcement includes a bunch of cool screenshots - not sure if they are new or not.
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Oct 19, 2007 There's no reason not to grab the just-released Unreal Tournament III beta demo and join in on Epic's classic deathmatch action. What? Worried that the menu screen alone will cause your three-year-old rig to choke and die? Perhaps the likes of Crysis should intimidate decrepit hardware, but the brilliance of the Unreal Tournament III engine is that Epic has intentionally kept the minimum system requirements as low as possible. With the right equipment, it looks better than ... » Read More

Oct 15, 2007 Epic's Unreal Tournament 3 demo hit the internet late last Friday, and the release has been quickly followed by a patch. "We created a fix for the game not starting up on Windows XP 64 and Windows Server 2003 systems. This patch has not undergone the same amount of QA as the released demo so I strongly encourage to ONLY replace the UT3Demo.exe with the one from the patch if you are experiencing the "Modified executable code is not allowed" issue at startup," the developers ... » Read More

Responding to a reported quote from Epic president Mike Capps that Unreal Tournament 3 was "just on PS3," VP Mark Rein has reaffirmed to CVG that the deathmatch shooter is still coming to Xbox 360 next year.

"We are going to release UT3 on Xbox 360 in 2008," confirmed Rein.

Regarding the game's performance, Rein explained, "I would think most of the people who read CVG would actually be able to get a great experience with Unreal Tournament III. We spent a considerable amount of time and effort making sure that gamers will be able to enjoy UTIII even with older gaming rigs," he added.
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Oct 15, 2007 And your visual shot in the arm for this evening comes courtesy of... Unreal Tournament 3 and its really rather lovely Japanese-style arena shown below, and in a handful of other images in our updated gallery. However... Whisper it, but these new shots aren't looking that sharp. Epic has clearly repurposed the the Gears of War-esque future-grime vision perfectly. But, without getting too speccy and dull, we're sure there's not much antialiasing going on around here. Which has to ... » Read More

Epic's Unreal Tournament III demo hit the internet late last Friday, and the release has been quickly followed by a patch. The update is for a Windows XP 64-bit and Windows Server 2003-related error.

"We created a fix for the game not starting up on Windows XP 64 and Windows Server 2003 systems. This patch has not undergone the same amount of QA as the released demo so I strongly encourage to ONLY replace the UT3Demo.exe with the one from the patch if you are experiencing the "Modified executable code is not allowed" issue at startup", the developer's explained in a forum post.

The patch can be downloaded via the CVG source.
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Oct 12, 2007 You won't have to wait till November to try out Unreal Tournament 3 as the beta demo has just been released. You can download this 741 MB monster now with FileRadar to sample three maps: HeatRay, Shangrila, and Suspense. All maps may be played against online opponents or AI-controlled bots in Deathmatch or Capture the Flag modes. While you're waiting for the demo to download, check out the latest screenshots in the Images tab above, and check out our latest hands-on preview and ... » Read More

Epic's latest shooter hits the PC in demo form today, bringing you a taste of the online FPS in three maps: VCTF-Suspense, DM-Heatray, and DM-ShangriLA.

The demo weighs in at 740 MB. See download mirrors below at the alternative sources.
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Mark Rein, VP of Epic Games stated,

"Unreal Engine 4 will be totally groundbreaking and the way games will be done in the future..."

"We're not ready to say anything more about the next Unreal Engine at this point in time. For now it's a long-range research project."
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Be among the first to download the Unreal Tournament 3 Beta Demo! FilePlanet subscribers can pre-load the beta demo for automatic download and play immediately on release. Limited public beta demo reserves available.

There is still no definite release date for the beta demo.
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Oct 11, 2007 Epic's Unreal Tournament III demo for PC will feature three maps and two of the game's six multiplayer modes, it's being reported. Deathmatch and Vehicle Capture the Flag are the modes that will be included, Epic deciding to leave biggie Warfare out. Warfare's a new mode for UT. It's a combination of Assault and Onslaught modes from previous games in the series, and it involves two teams battling for control of nodes on a map and ultimately trying to destroy the opposition's ... » Read More