Epic's feelings on Games for Windows Live are well-known. They're not fans. So this news should come as little, or perhaps even no surprise: Unreal Tournament 3 will not be using the service. But then it might be offering cross-platform play between the PC and PS3. I'll let Epic talisman Mark Rein, popping into the game's forums, elaborate:

UT3 does not use Games for Windows LIVE. We have not decided about cross platform play between PC and PS3. We're not 100% sure that users want that feature but if we get time we'll play around with it and see how it works. In the mean time we plan to be able to serve the PS3 from PC servers so that should help us gets lots of great servers going.

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