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Destroyed Beauty? This Gears of War Art is More Like Beautiful...Beauty

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 07:00:00 EDT

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There's an established, if corny description of the art of Gears of War: "destroyed beauty". I don't like typing it, I especially don't like hearing it. Beauty doesn't need to be defined like that because even the most smashed up thing in the universe can be beautiful if someone simply thinks it is. More »

The 10 Game Deaths of Osama bin Laden

Mike Epstein — Mon, 02 May 2011 18:20:00 EDT

The world was informed the Osama bin Laden was killed on Sunday evening. Now that the story of his life has come to a close, we're taking a moment to look back how Osama influenced the world of video games. As you might've guessed, he mostly got shot and killed. Well, actually that's all he did. Here are a few prime examples. More »

Gears Of War Composer On Life Support

Brian Ashcraft — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 05:00:00 EDT

On October 6, Gears of War composer Kevin Riepl tweeted that he thought someone "roofied" him while out drinking. He'd blacked out. "Somethings effed up," he added. "Like literally. Something knocked me out." Within days, Riepl was on life support. More »

Video Games Help Us Make Faster Decisions

Mike Fahey — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:00:00 EDT

Scientists from the University of Rochester have found that playing fast-paced action video games helps players make decisions 25 percent faster than normal, yet no less accurate. More »

This Only Works In John Woo Movies

Mike Fahey — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:00:00 EDT

If I learned anything from Unreal Tournament, it's that two automatic pistols are better than one, and holding them sideways makes them fire faster. It's two popular handgun fallacies in one! More »

The History of Headshots, Gaming's Favorite Act Of Unreal Violence

Stephen Totilo — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:00:00 EDT

It may seem ghoulish to the outsider. It will seem essential to the gamer. One of the most popular things to do in video games is to aim for the head with a gun and fire. Who thought of that? And why do people like doing it so much? More »

Hands-On With Unreal Engine On The iPhone, Nvidia Tegra

Michael McWhertor — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:00:00 EST

Epic Games VP Mark Rein brought with him the latest platforms on which the company's Unreal Engine 3 officially runs, iPhone 3GS hardware and Nvidia's Tegra 2 "system-on-a-chip" platform, giving us a chance to go hands-on with the tech demo. More »

Unreal Tournament 3 Players, Download DM Spectrum Now

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:00:00 EST

The previously featured DM_Spectrum, the lovely looking, brightly color coded mod for Unreal Tournament 3 that lets you make a killing on the dance floor, is now available for download, developer Matt Bradley tells us today. Now we're telling you. More »

Rumor: Epic Teases Something "Unreal"

Michael McWhertor — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:20:00 EDT

The Epic Games official web site featured a cryptic teaser about... something, an Unreal-related teaser that has since been removed. That teaser featured the above graphic and the tagline "It's Unreal. And it's almost here." More »

Study: Gamer Aggression Mimics That of Warfare

Owen Good — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:00:00 EDT

A study involving Unreal Tournament players, given a cash incentive for winning, found that gamers' testosterone levels spiked noticeably after pwning complete strangers. When defeating friends, they produced even less testosterone than their vanquished teammates. More »

UT3 vs Halo: You Just Got Served!

Jim Reilly — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:20:00 EST

Girl Gamers To Compete At Grl Gmr Tournament

Stuart Houghton — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:00:00 EDT

As part of the London Games Fringe (an indie adjunct to the full-blown London Games Festival), female gamers will be able to compete head-to-head in the first Grl Gmr Tournament. More »

The Evolution of the Team Multiplayer FPS

ogood — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:00:00 EDT

According to one writer, seven games parented the genre of the multiplayer FPS. Halo and Call of Duty: Not on it. Ed Borden reasons they did not add gameplay innovations, merely perfected the themes. That's up for discussion (and why I'm posting it, of course), but a fair point. More »

Epic Gets Steamed

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:20:30 EDT

Alright, who isn't on Steam at this point? We can add Epic Games to the list, as the developer announced (with the help of Valve) that its catalog has come to Steam. Everything Unreal and Unreal Tournament is now available via legal digital distribution starting today, with a tremendous bundle of savings at your fingertips in the Unreal Deal Pack. That pack features Unreal Gold, Unreal 2: The Awakening, Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition, Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor's Choice Edition and Unreal Tournament 3 for just $53.95 American for a limited time. Yowza. More »

PS3 Unreal Tournament 3 LEGO Mod

fdemarco — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:00:00 EST

Epic: No UT Delay, But No Guarantees Either

Mark Wilson — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:20:31 EDT

Mark Rein is doing a some damage control over his self-induced rumors of a possible delay for Unreal Tourment 3. But the damage control is just as open-ended as what he said to start all of our buzzing in the first place.

Nothing has changed at this point...we're working toward a November release.

Translation: No delay. More »

Rein Warns of Potential UT3 Delays

Mark Wilson — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:20:40 EDT

On the official forums, Mark Rein popped in to settle a debate on Unreal Tournament 3 countdown timers. But in doing so, he kind of killed the party:

We do not know exactly when the game will be completed. All we've said is that we're hoping for a November release but as you know we value getting it right over getting it right now so there's no guarantee of that.

Japan's Take on The Angry German Kid

Brian Ashcraft — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:40:06 EDT

If you've been near a computer in the last two years or so, you've probably seen this. It's a clip of some German kid flipping out while trying to play Unreal Tournament. Some say it was faked, some say it's real. We really don't care about that! What we do care about is this wonderful parody some Japanese dude did of that meme. It's great. More »

Cliffy B, More Than Just A 40 Foot Hard-On

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:20:25 EDT

We teased this interview with Gears of War designer Cliff Bleszinski last week, but the full Q&A is now available for your daily dose of Cliffy. In it, Cliffy not only brings up his massive Chantal-satisfying extremity, but flexes his talent for exaggeration. He says he's got some 8 million different intellectual properties running around his noodle and threatens to stab interviewer Andy Robinson in the eye with a pencil. More »

Epic Poised To Break Out, UE3 Cost $40 Million

Michael McWhertor — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 18:27:52 EST

CNN/Money profiles Epic Games, creator of Unreal Tournament and the Unreal Engine, the latter of which carries an R&D price tag of 40 million big ones. The always excellent Game Over column says the dev is set to gain mainstream exposure as Epic expects licensed developers to ship between 200 and 300 titles using Unreal Engine 3.0. That's alot of cash! More »

Reminder: Unreal Tournament 2007 Looks Awesome

Michael McWhertor — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 21:25:54 EST

Along with their other updates for Midway's upcoming titles, Gamespot got their soft gamer hands on some new screens for UT2007. These shots are so good they'll make you cry: once for the sheer beauty, then two more times when you shell out the bucks for a new video card. Load 'em and weep! More »

Reservoir Dogs Unreal Tournament Map

Brian Crecente — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 08:33:08 EDT

Alice over at Wonderland loves video game renderings of real world (and movie set) locations. She's posted pictures of two fantastic movie set recreations that you can play Unreal Tournament in. The Silence of the Lambs map looks like it might be a little limiting. But the Reservoir Dogs set, complete with chair, would be a ton of fun to run around blasting people in. More »

Gaming Death as Art

Brian Crecente — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 17:33:57 EDT

UnrealArt is a wonderful project that uses the somewhat random meanderings of bots in a massive death match game of Unreal Tournament to create art. Each image is made up of thousands, if not millions of dots. Each dot represents the location of one of the two dozen bots in a given second or the death of a bot. An image is created after about 30 minutes of automated gameplay. Pretty amazing stuff. More »