- Depot test - 15 December 2021
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- Gamespy Patch Information - 19 June 2014
As you may have heard, Gamespy is shutting down. We want to be sure you’re still able to play Unreal Tournament 3 Multiplayer. Thanks to community member Shambler, we have a patch that will allow you to continue playing. We also want to thank all of the server admins and other community members who have helped test the patch to be sure it’s ready to go. (We’re looking at you Bubbaxm2 and Hedsteem!) GO HERE for more information! http://epicgames.com/community/2014/05/ut3-patch-allows-you-to-play-after-gamespy-shutdown/ IMPORTANT TECHNICAL STUFFS: This “patch” is actually a replacement executable that will direct you to the new Unreal Tournament 3 master server which we have moved to the Epic Games server bank along with the Unreal Tournament 99 and Unreal Tournament 2004 servers. Once you have the new .exe and go to log on it will tell you that username and password are wrong. You will n…
- Gamespy Patch Information - 19 June 2014
As you may have heard, Gamespy is shutting down. We want to be sure you’re still able to play Unreal Tournament 3 Multiplayer. Thanks to community member Shambler, we have a patch that will allow you to continue playing. We also want to thank all of the server admins and other community members who have helped test the patch to be sure it’s ready to go. (We’re looking at you Bubbaxm2 and Hedsteem!) GO HERE for more information! http://epicgames.com/community/2014/05/ut3-patch-allows-you-to-play-after-gamespy-shutdown/ IMPORTANT TECHNICAL STUFFS: This “patch” is actually a replacement executable that will direct you to the new Unreal Tournament 3 master server which we have moved to the Epic Games server bank along with the Unreal Tournament 99 and Unreal Tournament 2004 servers. Once you have the new .exe and go to log on it will tell you that username and password are wrong. You will n…
- Unreal Tournament 3 PC online play lives on, thanks to Epic - 2 June 2014
Now that Gamespy's services have become a thing of the past , a number of PC games are no longer playable online. However, Epic is not content with this idea and is fully planning to keep Unreal Tournament 3 's online play alive, thanks to a new patch that allows users to play through the game's master server.
- Unreal Tournament 3 update removes Gamespy, adds Epic’s own server bank - 2 June 2014
Gamespy is dead. Sort of. A quick check will reveal that, at present, some of the games yet to hack-off the necrotic multiplayer matchmaker are still functional, albeit likely on borrowed time. Luckily, that list is ever-decreasing. Epic have released a new patch for Unreal Tournament 3, removing the lesser-loved sequel's Gamespy dependency in favour of the developer's own server bank. "Thanks to community member Shambler, we have a patch that will allow you to continue playing," announces the Epic Games community page. The patch, which takes the form of a replacement executable, will work with both the regular and Steam versions of the game. Those transitioning to the new servers will need create new login credentials, after which they're free to Impact Hammer some power-armoured beefcake. "This will apply to servers as well," explain Epic, "they will need to have the new .exe and all…
- Unreal Tournament interview: on transparent development, the best UT guns and “pure, fast action” - 21 May 2014
Unreal Tournament 3 brought a more serious tone to the series. Epic recently announced that they're making a new free Unreal Tournament game in collaboration with the UT community. This is good news. We like Unreal Tournament. Only yesterday, Andy wrote about his love for Facing Worlds. The monstrous flak cannon took the top spot in our roundup of gaming's greatest guns. With misty-eyed memories of frags gone by, we fired over some questions to Steve Polge, senior programmer and project lead on the new Unreal Tournament, to find out how this community collaboration thing will work. PC Gamer: Why did you decide to go with a community-driven development model? Steve Polge: We wanted to bring back Unreal Tournament in collaboration with our passionate fans and mod community. Community-created content and mods have always played a huge part in the appeal and success of the Unreal Tournament…
- TourianTourist's Deck 16 Map for Portal 2 - 22 January 2014
Epic Games forum member "TourianTourist" created the Unreal Tournament map, "Deck 16" in Portal 2! Tourian says, "My approach with this level was recreating Deck's infamous architecture within the Portal 2 editor, so it wasn't designed with a clear puzzle in mind except for how some parts would be made with Light Bridges." Check it out HERE.
- TourianTourist's Deck 16 Map for Portal 2 - 22 January 2014
Epic Games forum member "TourianTourist" created the Unreal Tournament map, "Deck 16" in Portal 2! Tourian says, "My approach with this level was recreating Deck's infamous architecture within the Portal 2 editor, so it wasn't designed with a clear puzzle in mind except for how some parts would be made with Light Bridges." Check it out HERE.
- New Week Long Deals Available on Steam! - 20 May 2013
Save up to 75% on new Week Long Deals on Steam, available now until May 27th at 10AM Pacific time!
- Why the Flak Cannon is the greatest gun in PC gaming - 4 May 2013
Last week we put the Flak Cannon at the top of our list of the Best Guns Ever. I've taken a moment to expand on why a sci-fi shotgun from 1999 still stands as our favorite firearm.
- Daily Deal - Unreal Deal Pack, 66% Off - 24 February 2013
Today's Deal: Save 66% on Unreal Deal Pack ! Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are!
- Vireio Perception drivers for Oculus Rift add support for Skyrim, Mirror’s Edge, others - 10 January 2013
Contrary to popular belief, the anticipated Oculus Rift virtual reality headset doesn't run on pixie dust and elf tears. Like all hardware, it needs software drivers. And while its 20-year-old creator, Palmer Luckey, focuses on manufacturing more developer kits to meet the exceedingly high demand, enthusiastic 3D fans are already planning homebrewed custom drivers. One such project is CyberReality's Vireio Perception which extends Rift 3D support to first-person greats such as Portal 2, Skyrim, Mirror's Edge, and Left 4 Dead. As CyberReality describes it, Vireio (or Virtual Reality Input Output, but we like how the shorthand name sounds like an enemy boss) can "pre-warp the image to match the Oculus Rift optics, handle custom aspect-ratios (needed for the Rift's strange 8:10 screen), and utilize full 3D head-tracking." As we describe it: Whoa. The drivers work with nine games so far: Le…
- Weekend Deal - Unreal Tournament 3 Black, 66% Off - 29 November 2012
Save 66% on Unreal Tournament 3 Black and the Unreal Deal Pack as part of this week's Weekend Deal*! In Celebration of Unreal Tournament’s 13th birthday. The community is releasing the 5th volume of the Community Bonus Pack! New content includes new character, new maps and more! *Offer ends Monday at 10AM Pacific Time
- CBP3 Volume 5 Released - 27 November 2012
Fri, 11/23/2012 - 05:03 It's here! In celebration of UT's 13th birthday and UT3's 5th birthday, the community is releasing the 5th volume of CBP3, containing 1 character, 5 DM maps, 3 CTF maps, and 1 VCTF map for UT3. Check out the screenshots below (more on the content page) and head over to the download page to try it out! Check out THIS for screenshots and THIS page for downloads. Epic Games would like to congratulate the CBP team on yet another great release!
- CBP3 Volume 5 Released - 27 November 2012
Fri, 11/23/2012 - 05:03 It's here! In celebration of UT's 13th birthday and UT3's 5th birthday, the community is releasing the 5th volume of CBP3, containing 1 character, 5 DM maps, 3 CTF maps, and 1 VCTF map for UT3. Check out the screenshots below (more on the content page) and head over to the download page to try it out! Check out for screenshots and THIS
- Reinstall: Unreal – we go native in Epic Games’ forgotten masterpiece - 18 September 2012
This article was originally published in issue 218 of PC Gamer, but in light of Cliff Bleszinski's entirely speculative talk of an open-world Unreal reboot, we thought we'd dig it out. Epic Games, now purveyors of grunting masculinity, offal and chainsaws, once had a line of family-friendly shareware platformers and pinball titles. The reason we no longer think of them as the guys who made Jazz Jackrabbit is solely due to Unreal. It’s an overlooked great. A journey through an alien landscape with a sense of wonder, grandeur and mystery that almost no shooter has since achieved. BioShock, surprisingly, is its most comparable successor. Both games maroon the player in a lurid and unfamiliar world – which, through pursuing their own selfish aims, they unwittingly save. In Unreal’s case it’s the planet of Na Pali. It’s here that the Vortex Rikers prison ship crashes, spilling its convict ca…
- Epic’s Cliff Bleszinski on open-world Unreal, Jazz Jackrabbit reboot likelihood and DayZ - 18 September 2012
Epic Games frontman Cliff Bleszinski conducted a crowdsourced interview with Reddit over the weekend in the popular "Ask Me Anything" subreddit. A number of noteworthy responses cropped up regarding Bleszinski's thoughts on revisiting older IPs, modding's explosive popularity, and (though very definitely not announcing this) an open-world reboot of Unreal, among other answers. Check out a few choice quotes below: On the potential for a Jazz Jackrabbit reboot: "Not any time soon. We're (fortunate) slaves to our success here at Epic with great franchises like Gears of War and Infinity Blade. It seems like a risky bet: Could we see a 2D platform game return and really move that many units, or would it just be a cult hit? "We make games as a labor of love, but we also try to weigh the choice of what we build based upon a solid understanding of the business. How could Jazz exist and flourish…
- Epic releases 'Epic Citadel' Unreal Engine demo in Flash - 9 March 2012
In 2010, Epic Games released the Epic Citadel tech demo to show off what the Unreal Engine could do on an iPhone. Now, it's re-released that same demo running in a web browser on Flash 11, for you to have a look yourself. Epic also showed off Unreal Tournament 3 and Dungeon Defenders running in Flash, with only a moderate performance hit. Head on over to the Unreal Engine site to visit Epic Citadel. You may need to install the test version of Flash Player 11.2 , if you don't have it already. "For the same piece of content there is definitely a penalty on Flash in terms of CPU performance," Epic's Mark Rein told our roving reporter Andrew at GDC, but the Flash version of Unreal Engine 3 still runs around 70% as fast as the regular. Given how much more portable and accessible it is--the Flash Dungeon Defenders only has a 15MB initial download--it's a reasonable hit, and Rein noted he can…
- Epic aims for Samaritan quality visuals in Flash - 8 March 2012
Unreal Engine maker Epic Games wants to get Samaritan quality visuals working in Flash. That's the long term goal, Epic VP Mark Rein said during a GamesIndustry International attended presentation at GDC. The Samaritan tech demo, below, was revealed by Epic Games at GDC 2011. It was designed to show what developers would be capable of with next-generation graphics technology. Then, Samaritan took three GTX 580 Nvidia cards and a large power supply to run. At this year's GDC, Epic ran the demo on a single, unreleased Nvidia card and a 200 watt supply. This, Rein said, was a "big step forward". Rein also showed off Dungeon Defenders running full screen in Flash as well as it does on PlayStation 3. "This isn't your father's FarmVille," he said. He then showed off the Xbox 360 version of Unreal Tournament 3 running in Flash to hammer home his point. Graphics technology has, according to Rei…
- Tribes Ascend dev on the decline of twitch shooters: blame “multiplatform” development - 21 February 2012
"People have maybe forgotten about the adrenaline rush of the old school shooters like Quake, Unreal Tournament and, of course, Tribes." Executive producer on upcoming free to play shooter Tribes: Ascend, Todd Harris, misses the twitch shooters of old. We asked him why he thought they were less popular these days. "I think a lot of it is the multi-platform consideration," he said. "Games have this huge marketing spend so many of these shooters look to go multi-platform, meaning not just the PC but at least two consoles as well." Todd says controllers don't offer the same freedom of movement as a mouse and keyboard, making it harder for devs to put an emphasis on raw dexterity: "The control scheme on the consoles does limit somewhat the speed and the twitch in which a game can operate – I mean your turn distance is only so far." "That’s not to say that someone couldn’t make a fast twitch…
