- Unreal mastermind Cliff Bleszinski really likes this fan-made Redux remaster: 'Time for a new generation to learn that Unreal isn't just an engine' - 6 October 2025
Unreal Redux, an in-development remake of the classic FPS Unreal, is not an official Epic Games project, but it does have the official thumbs-up from one very important person: Original Unreal designer Cliff Bleszinski, who said on X that it "looks SO COOL.".. Read more.
- Unreal Gold and Unreal Tournament are now free on the Internet Archive, and Epic says that's A-okay - 14 November 2024
Have you ever thought to yourself, "Gosh, I've heard such good things about the classic 1998 shooter Unreal and sure would like to try it, but I just don't know where to get it these days?" If so, I have good news: The Internet Archive has made it free, along with the multiplayer follow-up Unreal Tournament, and it has Epic's blessing to do so... Read more.
- Fresh off a fantastic Quake 2 remaster, Nightdive would once again like Tim Sweeney to know it's ready and eager to do the same to Unreal - 21 August 2023
Friends, I have a confession to make. You might have seen one or two stories on our website about Baldur's Gate 3 , an overall pretty solid RPG that practically everyone on staff here has been pouring hours and days of their lives into. But not me. I've been distracted by another venerable series, a contemporary of the original Baldur's Gate games and the first game I ever remember laying my hands on. I've been playing Quake 2... Read more.
- The creators of the System Shock remake want to do Unreal next - 17 August 2023
Stephen Kick, CEO of Nightdive Studios, has said he'd love to remaster Epic's 90s FPS Unreal. Not familiar with Nightdive? They're the team behind this May's triumphant System Shock remake, which Jeremy Peel described in his review as "a breathtakingly beautiful and astonishingly faithful remake that proves the enduring power of Looking Glass design". They're also the studio behind last week's surprise-released Quake 2 remaster , and a bunch of other classic 90s remasters including the PC version of DOOM 64 and Rise of the Triad: Ludicrous Edition . It's safe to say they know how to pull off a retro ( sorry, Kamiya-san ) comeback. Read more
- Nightdive wants to remaster the original Unreal next - 5 June 2022
Last year Nightdive Studios released a Quake remaster giving the classic FPS 4K and widescreen resolution support, enhanced models, dynamic and colored lighting, anti-aliasing, depth of field, and some new levels by MachineGames. It also restored the original Trent Reznor score, previously absent from the digital version due to an expired copyright, and added a new theme song by Reznor. All that, and it was free for owners of the original Quake... Read more.
- Quake remastered devs want an Unreal game remake - 4 June 2022
An Unreal game remake could be on the cards from the team behind last year's Quake remastered . Apparently, Nightdive Studios has "reached out" to Epic Games about a possible Unreal 1 remastered release - which would finally mark the return of one of the best FPS games on PC . Despite the popularity of Epic's Unreal Engine - which these days powers everything from The Witcher 4 to the next game from the Alien Isolation team, as well as the studio's own Fortnite - the engine hasn't been used to create a new Unreal game since the free Unreal Tournament game, which is pretty dead now . While it's not a new Unreal single-player game, Nightdive Studios - the team behind the Quake remaster, bringing Doom 64 to PC , and the upcoming System Shock remake - wants to remaster the original, best Unreal game . According to Nightdive CEO Stephen Kick, Unreal and Gears of War co-creator Cliff Bleszins…
- Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer - Part 14: Return to Na Pali - 28 February 2022
One of the selling points of Unreal Tournament pitched to the modding scene by Epic Games was its ability to load assets from the original Unreal into the new engine. After a few years this snowballed into a concerted community effort to make the entire Unreal single player mode playable from within its own sequel. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/02/building-a-retro-linux-gaming-computer-part-14-return-to-na-pali
- Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer - Part 4: Installing Red Hat Linux 7.3 - 22 March 2021
I had some grief installing Red Hat Linux 7.3 but with persistence I was able to get it installed. In terms of compatibility though Valhalla proved to be far superior, so I decided to stick with it and focus on improving other parts of the system instead. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/03/building-a-retro-linux-gaming-computer-part-4-installing-red-hat-linux-73
- Unreal (1998) is the FPS you have been missing - 23 March 2020
Past Perfect is a retrospective column in which we look back into gaming history to see whether old favourites are still worth playing today. I wanted a comfort game. A big, safe, entertaining game to sink into, to distract me from cold-o-geddon. And what better than Unreal? An enormous, superbly built FPS, that’s fast, entertaining, and full of… coughing, coughing aliens. Oh no. (more…)
- Great moments in PC gaming: Escaping the prison ship in Unreal - 29 June 2019
Great moments in PC gaming are bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories.   You only need to shoot once in the entire opening level of Unreal, and that's to break the glass on the emergency exit control. Which is not to say it's peaceful. Unreal's first map is its most intense, in spite of the lack of pew-pew action. It begins with a crash. You come to in a prison cell on a wrecked spaceship, the door open and the other prisoners dead. There's a roar and scream in the distance, and as you step out a robotic voice declares that "Prisoner 849 is escaping."  You make your way through the rupturing, exploding guts of this prison ship, crawling through vents and hunting for med packs (you start at one-third health thanks to the crash). During all this you hear more screaming in the distance, Unreal's excellent 3D sound doing as much wo…
- A retrospective of Unreal, from the people who made it - 5 June 2018
Unreal turned 20 years old this month. The extraterrestrial first-person shooter spawned (and showcased) a game engine whose descendants still motor on today . To commemorate all those screaming prisoners and innocent alien creatures killed at the hands of jumpy players, I got in touch with a handful of the original team and asked them to share their memories of making the first Skaarj conflict. This is how Unreal was made, from the perspective of the programmers, designers, artists and musicians who were there. (more…)
- Podcast: What are the best shooters? - 24 May 2018
Wait, didn t we already answer this question? Never mind, the RPS podcast, the Electronic Wireless Show , is not content with our list of the top 50 first-person shooters . Well, they’re mostly fine with it (lists are stupid) but they still want to hash out this ageless question the old-fashioned way. By interrogating each other over the internet. (more…)
- Unreal Gold is free on Steam and GOG - 22 May 2018
Epic's famed FPS Unreal was released 20 years ago today, and to celebrate the big birthday Steam and GOG are giving it away for the next 48 hours.    The freebie is Unreal Gold, to be specific, which bundles the original game with the Return to Na Pali mission pack. That's 47 "eye-popping" missions in all, plus 20 multiplayer levels, 13 "guaranteed giblet" weapons, and all the graphical enhancement for the latest 3D technology, including Direct3D and Glide.    I kid, but Unreal was seriously cutting-edge stuff in 1998. The actual gameplay was perhaps a little less-than-inspired, but it looked so damn good that nobody cared. More significantly it launched an engine that remains relevant to this day, and some tournaments that are still around too.    The Unreal Gold freebie will be up until 10 am PT/1 pm ET on May 24. The rest of the Unreal games on…
- Unreal is free to celebrate its 20th birthday - 22 May 2018
“Dearest Alice, I do not play video games but fear I am insufficiently aware of my own mortality and am exploring every avenue to remedy that,” begins one of the many letters I received in the post this morning seeking my advice as a reputed expert in the field. “Which gaming platform would most frequently remind me that my youth is so very far behind me and all flesh is grass?” Well, Margo From Bishop’s Stortford, PC gaming can definitely help you. Observe how the assembled commenters wail, weep, and tug at their scant remaining hairs as I say this simple sentence: Unreal came out twenty years ago today. “What is Unreal?” Well Margo, right now you can download it for free to see for yourself. (more…)
