Epic's started the roll out of in-house-created content for Unreal Tournament III on PC in the shape of a map pack containing three new levels. Downloadable from FileRadar (and the official UTIII website), two of the levels will be familiar to fans of the series, as they're UTIII-ised versions of Facing Worlds and Morbias, while the third map, Searchlight, is a brand new CTF level. The complete pack weighs in at 160MB. ... » Read More

Epic sends along an Unreal Tournament 3 bonus pack, adding three maps to the PC version of their multiplayer shooter. The 160 MB download includes Unreal Tournament 3 versions of the classic UT maps Morbias and Facing Worlds, as well as an all-new Capture the Flag map titled Searchlight.

A PlayStation 3 edition of the map pack will be available as a PlayStation Store download later today.
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Epic Games and Valve have set off the PR fireworks this morning, revealing that the Unreal developer's vast catalogue of, erm, Unreal games are now available for purchase through Steam. The Epic shooters now available on Steam include Unreal Gold, Unreal II: The Awakening and every Unreal Tournament EVER made (apart from, oddly, Unreal Tournament 2003 - perhaps Epic wants to forget about that one?) You can get the lot of them in the Unreal Deal ... » Read More

In its call with investors following Q4 results, Midway CEO David Zucker said getting the PS3 version of its standardized internal engine up to par adversely impacted its financial results, and revealed that it was preparing an online casual game portal for the near future.

Zucker said the publisher had a "challenging year" as it underwent its transition to next-gen consoles. While he said the million-selling action title Stranglehold was "affirmation" that Midway's "standardized tech tool set is on the right track," it hasn't come without a price.
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Publisher and developer Midway has released the results of its holiday quarter and full year, showing Q4 sales falling to $77.6 million, and losses rising considerably from $2 million in 2006 to $29.7 million, with execs saying the company has "overcome many of [its] technology hurdles" for a "smoother" 2008.

The company did trumpet the achievement of its Epic co-release of Unreal Tournament 3 for PC and PlayStation 3, which it notes has shipped over a million copies worldwide, and took home a number of awards, as did its The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar.
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Videogamer writes: "While Unreal Tournament 3 on PS3 has finally hit UK streets, the Xbox 360 version is still shrouded in mystery - or so we thought.

On our busy commute home this evening we spotted a review for the Xbox 360 version in thelondonpaper, the popular London-based free evening newspaper that those annoying men and women in purple jackets force on you as you barge your way through five billion other commuters on Oxford Street".
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Epic Games has released the Unreal Tournament 3 version 1.2 patch, which includes gameplay, interface, AI and map changes, fixes and updates. New Linux dedicated server files are available as well, as is a webadmin package.
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Midway Games has confirmed that Unreal Tournament 3 for PlayStation 3 will hit Europe on Friday February 22, and the PC and PS3 releases of the game has shipped over 1.2 million units worldwide.
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While it's not released publicly - not even to server admins yet - the guys at Epic are currently internally testing the first beta of Patch 2. The changelist is currently 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.
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Keith Stuart of Guardian Unlimited writes: "Tomorrow evening I'll be interviewing Mark Rein, the outspoken vice president of Epic Games. High on the agenda - the PS3 iteration of Unreal Tournament 3 and the future of Unreal Engine 3. But what would YOU like to ask him? Add your question as a comment and I'll put it to him."
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Here is Three New Maps for the PS3 version of Unreal Tournament III(3).

The First Map is Call Bathroom, the second map is called Dome of Mud, and the third map is called FeelGoodINC.

I will like to say thanks to "impatientfire" from gametrailer.com. I wouldn't have been able to create this story with his post.

Now go and download these maps.
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That is correct Epic has just released the PS3ModTools patch for PC users to now cook mods for the PS3 version and you can download it from PSN at Home right now.
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Today Epic Games sent out an email to an unknown amount of people on the Developer Mailing list, who now have access to the PS3 Mod Tools patch for there Unreal Editor. They have been ask not to "distribute it or make it generally available to the public." So PSN at Home will be giving you the best information without giving you the tools! Expect to see many downloads for PS3 version available at psnathome.com!
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Jan 3, 2008 The UT III mod cooker - a tool to turn PC mods into PS3-compatible mods - could be released as early as next week in an update. Rein brought the good news in a brief progress report: "We're very close to releasing an update to the Unreal Engine 3 editor, that comes with the PC version of UT3, that will allow UT3 mod-makers to cook their mods into the required PS3 format. "We've been doing some internal testing and we're hoping to expand to a wider group tomorrow or Friday. If all ... » Read More

iD Tech Camps, an American summer computer camp is to use Unreal Tournament III and its mod tools to teach game design
The software will be used to help students get a grounding in game design and development principles.
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Epic is very close to releasing an update to the Unreal Engine 3 editor, that comes with the PC version of UT3, that will allow UT3 mod-makers to cook their mods into the required PS3 format. Epic has been doing some internal testing and they hoping to expand to a wider group tomorrow or Friday. If all goes well then we should see the update released next week which is what Mark Reign expect's will happen. Obviously the process works, as Epic put out a few mods before Christmas and people seem to be playing them, but it is the update to the editor that Epic is testing.
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"The PS3 version didn't actually support mods at launch, and even now that they are patching in their campaign promises"

Rain: That is incorrect. The PS3 version of UT3 supports mods right out of the box. The Unreal Editor that ships with the PC version requires an update (which is hopefully coming very soon) to allow end-users be able to "cook" mods into the proper format required for the PS3. This functionality requires us to release some code provided by Sony and we're working through the licensing paperwork with them now. In the mean time we've picked a few cool UT3 mods off the internet, cooked them ourselves (with the same tools we expect to release to end-users shortly) and released them back to the internet in the proper format. We started with a single map but we're going to release a few more maps, a mutator and a new gametype later today. These are all user-created mods - all we're doing is converting them into the PS3 format. We're working on some cool stuff of our own to release down the road as well.
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20th Dec, 2007 Gaming is an up and down experience. Some years cram top quality titles into our every orifice until were bursting with videogame joy and have excess polygons dripping messily out of our ears, while some other years… Well, some other years are 1983. In 2007 though, weve had a very good year indeed. A scarily good year in fact. One which has provided us so much brilliance on every format that its a genuine worry that the laws of karmic balance will soon bring us a plague ... » Read More

MacWorld - Tuesday, Dec 18, 2007:

It's not been a particularly well-kept secret that Unreal Tournament 3 was Mac-bound -- Mark Rein, founder of Epic Games (the title's developer), said as much in an interview in July. But on Tuesday MacSoft officially announced plans to release the game in early 2008.
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Unreal Tournament III sales may not be strong on the PC, but reviews have been positive for the latest installment in the frag-fest series. It appears outlets -- deviating from standard practice -- are trying to view the PC and PS3 versions under different lenses. The PC version (per usual) is the better option if you've got the rig to handle the Unreal Engine 3 game, but the PS3 version wasn't a toss-away port here. The reviews below are from the PS3 version of the UT3 reviews.
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