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Mark Rein Working To Make Xbox 360 UT3 Mods Happen

Unreal Tournament III on PS3 is mod-heaven. People are going bananas! But what about the Xbox 360? Microsoft previously stated it wasn't up for allowing mods. Where do they stand now, pre-release? Let's ask Mark Rein. Mark?

We're still trying. We're working with Microsoft to try to figure out how to support it, but regardless of what happens, mods will play a part somewhere along the line. We'll make sure we get a fair share of mods working. We'll figure that out.

Without allowing mods, Microsoft really seems to be missing a lot, no?
Mark Rein Interview [CVG]

11:00 PM on Wed Apr 23 2008
By Brian Ashcraft
2,767 views, 61 comments

Latest by Jac21: I thought modders went directly to PC!?!? My entrie perception! Gone! more »

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Midway Gamer's Day '08: Unreal Tournament III Coming to Xbox 360

Epic Games' Unreal Tournament III is coming to the Xbox 360 at long last. The new release will have five exclusive new maps and two new characters. It will also contain all of the DLC that was created for the PS3 and PC versions. You will also be able two play in a two player split screen mode. So, if you have been patiently waiting for for UT III to arrive for your 360, Epic has answered your prayers.

5:02 PM on Fri Apr 18 2008
By fdemarco
3,962 views, 95 comments

Latest by freespeech: supposedly epic is trying to convince MS to get mods into the game BUT I really don't see it happening!!!!!!!!!!!!!! more »

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Unreal Tournament III 360 Reminds Us We'd Forgotten About It

I completely forgot about Unreal Tournament III. Sorry, Epic! No harm meant, it's just, I think the world's FPS games/fans have kinda moved on from the late 90s. That and there wasn't a 360 version, which for an online console FPS is like holding a doritos-eating championship then forgetting to invite the fatties. While many then went and assumed the "delayed" 360 version would quietly become the "cancelled" 360 version - due to Microsoft's reluctance to allow user-generated content on the 360 - Epic are still plugging away on the project, with Mark Rein posting on the company forums that the title will be playable for for the press in about two weeks time. Gotta admire their sticktoitiveness.
UT3 XB360 Release Date? [Epic]

4:30 AM on Mon Apr 7 2008
By Luke Plunkett
4,532 views, 105 comments

Latest by freespeech: it's a good thing it's coming out on the x360 now maybe it can sell some copies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! more »

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Samus, Unreal Tournament III's Newest Contender

After transplanting Master Chief from his warm, green home on the Xbox 360 to the PlayStation 3, it was hard to imagine a greater iconoclastic modder offense...but one may have just happened. The newest entrant to the UTIII unlicensed mods club is this Samus Aran skin. Play Metroid, kinda, on your PS3!

As Microsoft explained before, there's nothing illegal about creating or downloading such mods. But that doesn't mean Epic will pay you $1,000,000 for one. Their Make Something Unreal Contest bans the use of "third party intellectual property, including, but not limited to software, images, characters, logos, names and trademarks." Still, some pranks are so good, they're worth the free work.

Character - Samus Aran [UT3Mod via PS3Fanboy]

11:40 AM on Fri Apr 4 2008
By Mark Wilson
16,864 views, 69 comments

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Halo, Gears of War, Final Fantasy VII Characters on PS3

Thank Unreal Tournament III, UTIII mods and a UTIII mod-friendly PS3! These mods were brought to us by the folks at UT.PS3, so kudos to them for cooking them up. Still waiting patiently for the long overdue Mario UTIII mod. Make it happen!

UTIII Mods [GameTrailes Forums]

1:00 AM on Mon Mar 24 2008
By Brian Ashcraft
27,305 views, 105 comments

Latest by AstroVega: I can't wait for these people to get sued. more »

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UT3 Sells 1 Million Copies, Better Late Than Never

Things weren't looking good for Epic's once-powerful franchise, Unreal Tournament. The release of UT3 met slow sales during a November when new IPs were dominating the charts as the holidays approached. Now Midway has announced that UT3 has sold 1 million copies. The catch? That figure includes both PC and PS3 titles. I think that at this point we can call it—Unreal Tournament is no longer a powerhouse franchise.

Of course, Epic still has Gears of War and the oft-licensed Unreal Engine. So they're not going hungry or anything.

UT3 and Stranglehold hit 1m sales [MCV]

11:40 AM on Wed Mar 12 2008
By Mark Wilson
3,191 views, 108 comments

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Epic Can't Quit The Shooters

Epic's games come in two flavors: First person and third person. Mix it up, guys! Can't you make other types of games? You know, games that aren't shooters? Epic honcho Mark Rein says:

We love making shooters, and I'm certain there are still countless ways we can improve in that genre. We look at Gears of War and we see the pimples, we look at UT3 and think 'we should also do this, we should also try that, if only we had more time and more people, we could have done...' so I think we're continually looking at our own games and thinking there are lots of unfinished puzzles left to solve before we move on to something else... There's still a lot of low hanging fruit in this genre — we need to pick some more of that.

And that fruit, dear reader, pays the bills and buys the brown suits.
Mark Rein Interview [Guardian Unlimited]

6:00 AM on Thu Jan 31 2008
By Brian Ashcraft
1,909 views, 43 comments

Latest by headcase88: How about a second-person shooter? Like, it's seen through the eyes of your enemy, or a hostage you have to keep protected. Yeah.... that would work... :P more »

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Rein Defends UTIII PC Sales, Crysis Too

The numbers we've seen on Unreal Tournament III sales for PC haven't been good, right alongside fellow November PC release Crysis. But while Epic's Mark Rein asserts that neither UTIII nor Crysis have flopped:
It is amazing how people can look at two weeks of sales (in our case) in one single territory in the busiest Xmas sales season the industry has ever seen and come to the conclusion these titles are doing "badly". I don't think either title is doing so badly.
As for Crysis sales being a bit higher:
More »

1:20 PM on Fri Jan 18 2008
By Mark Wilson
9,995 views, 107 comments

Latest by LiquidMemory: Surprisingly nobody has mentioned that these games are littered with cheaters. UT2004 is a nightmare if you aren't an experienced player. And even being experienced like me with over 10,000 hours of play time on ut2004, it can be a more »

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The Mini-Flood Of UTIII User Created Content Begins

Not long after the first official piece of user created content for the PlayStation 3 version of Unreal Tournament III arrives, the community has answered the call, with a handful of new maps and a new mutator, something we hope is the start of a long-running trend. The details on each are nestled within the official thread created by Mark Rein at Epic Games' forums, with links to required files and details contained within. Deathmatch map DM-Elevation can be seen above and was created by user "warby", also responsible for the excellent Shadow of the Colossus-style map for Half-Life 2.

First User Created Content for UT3 PS3 is released! [Epic Games]

7:20 PM on Fri Dec 21 2007
By Michael McWhertor
3,976 views, 64 comments

Latest by asmodeus: Please, support! Digg my story! more »

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PS3 Unreal Tournament III Gets Its First User Created Content

The PlayStation 3 version of Epic Games' Unreal Tournament III has long been crowed about as the first game on Sony's console to support user created content, such as mods and maps. Today, owners of UTIII have their first taste of homebrewed PS3 add-ons, as FileFront presents the game's first player-created map, DM-Shrine, for download. The deathmatch map is designed for 2-6 players and was built by 23 year-old Thomas Browett of Nottingham.

FileFront has the download and installation instructions, which, curiously, point out that removable storage of some sort is required for import. Whether it be compact flash, Memory Stick or simply a USB thumb drive, it seems one can't simply download to the PS3's built-in mass storage via the internet browser. What's up with that?

FileFront Exclusive: First Ever PS3 Unreal Tournament 3 Map [FileFront]

5:20 PM on Thu Dec 20 2007
By Michael McWhertor
8,939 views, 90 comments

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Unreal Tournament 3 Heading To Mac

Unreal Tournament III is one of the fastest, deadliest shooters around these days on the PC and PlayStation 3, and now early next year Mac gamers will be able to join the battle, no Boot Camp required. MacSoft has announced the Macintosh version of Unreal Tournament 3 to be released in earl 2008 for ultra-stylish computer users everywhere.
"MacSoft couldn't be happier to bring Unreal Tournament 3's insane fast-paced action and brutal weaponry to the Mac," said Peter Tamte, president of MacSoft parent company Destineer. "We have a long history of bringing the Unreal series to Mac gamers, and with its expanded campaign mode and killer vehicles, Unreal Tournament 3 is the biggest, best and bloodiest game in the series yet."
I could poke fun at Mac users here, but I've come to the realization that the only reason I don't own a Mac is that I just can't afford one right now. Sometimes I hold up pictures of them from magazines in front of my desk and pretend I am hip and happening too. *sniffle* More »

6:30 PM on Tue Dec 18 2007
By Mike Fahey
3,870 views, 102 comments

Latest by ereusch: Great news for Mac gamers. Both of them should be ecstatic. more »

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Unreal Tournament III Weapons Play

While the real meat of this game on the PS3 is going to be all of the user-created content, I'm totally down with some of these weapons.

12:57 PM on Tue Dec 4 2007
By Brian Crecente
3,340 views, 79 comments

Latest by Kenzya: @mikemil828: When the fuck did I say anything about innovation? It's literally UT2k4 with the ability to fall down. UT Classic to UT2k3 was different and exciting enough, as well as UT2k3 to UT2k4. Asshole. more »

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Mark Rein Explains How UT III Wound Up On The PS3

Simply put, it's the ability to run (really run) user generated content. Gamasutra's Brandon Sheffield and Christian Nutt sat down with the Epic Games' mouthpiece to chat about all things Unreal—why Epic won't dedicate time to porting Unreal Engine 3 to Wii, why he's "very sensitive" about accusations that all UE3 games have a "look" and why the team decided to go to the PlayStation 3 for their latest shooter. Rein clears up some differences between user created content in Sony's LittleBigPlanet and Home which is decidedly non-"Wild West", almost anything goes when it comes to Unreal Tournament III mods. More »

7:40 PM on Wed Nov 28 2007
By Michael McWhertor
8,307 views, 62 comments

Latest by giovonti: @Maldron: It's obvious I could detect your sarcasm, and I could have resorted to calling you names as well for your amazing creativity in rephrasing my post /sarcasm. My reply to you was for assuming that I'm just reacting more »

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Midway Confirms UTIII Is Coming In December*

* But may be arriving in "limited quantities", most likely due to the elves at the PlayStation 3 game processing plant being unprepared for the game's last-minute gold status. The official word—as predicted by Epic Games-smith Mark Rein alongside the good news that Unreal Tournament III will ship in 2007—is that the PS3 first-person shooter will start showing up in stores on December 11th, arriving with a trickle, not a torrent. For those desperate for a copy on day one, a pre-order won't hurt your chances of securing a copy.

4:20 PM on Mon Nov 26 2007
By Michael McWhertor
2,085 views, 51 comments

Latest by demonwolf: @Akin: dude the cell can do OoO processing as well but the powerpc core has it disabled for the ps3 cus IoP is ideal take a look at folding@home results, this clearly shows if done correctly IoP is the best more »

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Unreal Tournament III PS3 Goes Gold, Saves Christmas

Epic Games' Mark Rein writes on the developer's official forums that the PlayStation 3 version of Unreal Tournament III has finally gone gold and will make it to retailers in time for a 2007 release. While a solid release date most likely won't be confirmed until the expected formal announcement, Rein estimates that "Midway will start shipping the title to North American retailers on Monday December 10th and it could show up in stores as early as December 11th but more likely toward the middle of that week."

Those driven to the brink of insanity by warnings of the UTIII's delay to 2008, which were later semi-scuttled by Rein himself can finally join the rest of us with full mental faculties intact. Welcome back. And yay!

Unreal Tournament 3 for PS3 has gone gold for North America! [Epic]

3:40 PM on Wed Nov 21 2007
By Michael McWhertor
4,747 views, 84 comments

Latest by Captain-Impulse: Hmm...I get the feeling there are going to be glitches and other issues. Sounds like they tried to rush it, and that's never good. more »

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Finish UTIII PS3, Take a Break, Talk to Microsoft

Epic Games is busy and has to proirtize. Priority number one? Getting that PS3 version of Unreal Tournament III shipshape. Where does that leave the Xbox 360 version? Nowhere near done — blame the mods. Epic's Mark Rein explains:

The PS3 is an open system, and they embrace user-created content. But there isn't really a way to do that on the 360... So our job, when we finish the PS3 version, and we've taken a little break, is to sit down with Microsoft and to figure out how we can do mods on their system.

To recap: The PS3 version has been pushed back to possibly 2008, the Xbox 360 version isn't anywhere near release and the PC version, well, that's on track for November 23rd.
UTIII on 360 [CVG]

6:00 AM on Thu Nov 15 2007
By Brian Ashcraft
4,095 views, 100 comments

Latest by HikariOblivion: .... wow, Call of Duty better than UT? i.. i'm speechless, the stupid, it hurts when you can add user created content to CoD4, Halo, and the 360 version of.. anything, let me know ;D more »

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How SIXAXIS Is Used in Unreal Tournament III

Sure, we got hands-on with the PS3 version of Unreal Tournament III at TGS. It played great and smooth — save for the times it didn't cause Sony consoles to crash. So how is the PS3 version different from the PC one? Explains Mark Rein:


Well, the PLAYSTATION 3 has a lot of unique features and we try to take control of them - like with SIXAXIS. SIXAXIS can be used to steer the hoverboard or The Redeemer, but that's it. We wanted to be very careful not to hammer this functionality in just because we could. As for PlayStation Network, we just don't have a plan to use that right now to my knowledge but I suppose it's possible.

Smart. A mouse and keyboard probably handle steering much better anyway, no?
Mark Rein Interview [bit-tech.net via PS3 Fanboy]

Thanks Chris!

1:00 AM on Wed Nov 14 2007
By Brian Ashcraft
2,622 views, 28 comments

Latest by stephen70: Smart. A mouse and keyboard probably handle steering much better anyway, no? Answer: would you drive a (REAL) car or bike with a mouse or thumbstick ? The 2 handed sixaxis grip is far more appropriate for these tasks it's steady more »

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UT III Is So "Smooth" and "Really Fantastic"

UT on a high-end PC is amazing, but we're slightly concerned how UT III runs on the PS3. There might be lags and a slower frame-rate. That, dear reader, would be a huge drag! Sucky, even!! We wonder if Unreal Tournament III on the PS3 will be any good? Let's ask Epic honcho Mark Rein. Mark?

I was playing the PS3 build for a few hours tonight and it is really, really fantastic...　amazingly smooth and solid. I think you PS3 users are in for a huge treat with UT3.

Whew! We were worried. Well, as long as the guy who runs the company likes the game, then we have absolutely nothing to worry about. You know what's really smooth, Mark? That chocolate-colored suit.
Mark Talks PS3 UT III [Epic via CVG]

3:00 AM on Thu Nov 1 2007
By Brian Ashcraft
3,103 views, 29 comments

Latest by unmarkedone: I love the UT series but man, 3 sure does look like an expansion pack to 2004. Here's hoping the real game is far better than the demo. At least we know Crysis will rock no matter what. more »