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Review: Mirror's Edge | Edge Online

Wed, Nov 26 | Edge Online
The game’s Unreal Engine 3 implementation is incredible, able to render everything from the rooftops to the street – but it ferries you between them in elevators. The flight-not-fight ethic of its combat, meanwhile, hides ...

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Black College Football Experience To Support Rock Band Drum Kit [Nerjyzed Entertainment]

Turns out that in between two meaty chunks of Unreal 3 engine powered football there will be a sliver of tasty Drumline relish. Frankly, I have no idea where I am going with this food based metaphor. Maybe there will be a side of gameplay and plenty of graphical.. cutlery? I'll stop now.
Mon, Dec 1 | Kotaku

Midway sold for just about nothing

His name is Mark Thomas. You don’t know his name, but he is the investor who just bought up a whopping 87.2 percent stake in Midway, the once-great video game publisher and arcade manufacturer that brought Galaga, Joust, Ms. Pac-Man, Killer Instinct, Mortal Kombat, and even Unreal Tourname...
Mon, Dec 1 | thatvideogameblog.com

Midway Not Worth The Paper Its Stock Is Printed On

As of late the storied company Midway, has had anything but fortune. Looking at some of its recent releases, you can see nothing more than the average selling Stranglehold, to the dismal performers like Unreal Tournament 3 and Blacksite: Area 51, a game so bad, the developer disavowed an...
Mon, Dec 1 | Aeropause

Did You Buy Any Games On Black Friday?

Burnout Paradise 360 $20 @ Newegg The Simpsons Game 360 $10 @ Best Buy Fallout 3 PC $30 @ GoGamer Unreal Tournament 3 $10 @ GoGamer Crysis Collectors Edition $20 @ Gamestop Frequency $7 @ Gamestop God of War $10 @ Gamestop lhfan04
Sun, Nov 30 | Kotaku.com

Hourences' Site Update

For part three we have planned to introduce at least one enemy, preferably two. There will be more action orientated gameplay with a brand new environment set in two golden cities. We will also have new and original music. I am very excited about the new weapon model and if it all goes right we wi...
Sat, Nov 29 | BeyondUnreal

Wheelman creative director says Midway's secret game can compete with Gears 2 graphics

While some of Midway's titles do use Epic Game's Unreal Engine 3, developmental problems in the past kept these games from making full use of the tools at hand. This time around though, Woodroffe feels that they finally have the technical know-how on their side to compete at the top level v...
Fri, Nov 28 | qj/ps3 (Feedburner)

Gears of War 2 Review (Xbox 360)

The answer is surprisingly simple: just make a better game. Which is precisely what Cliff Bleszinski and his talented team at Epic Games have managed to do. Gears of War 2 features everything that we loved about its predecessor, but it refines it and extends it and presents it on a scale not ev...
Tue, Nov 25 | EL33TONLINE

The Last Remnant Review

CA - Square Enix may have licensed the Unreal Engine 3, the same tools used to make Gears of War, but the developers clearly did not know how to use it. ...
Mon, Nov 24 | IGN

Conference Calls: Lazy IM Chat Edition

aaron: Eight losses. Unreal. kriston: You want to look at that game and say that the defense won. There was a single score in the second half. aaron: Enthralling. aaron: So, let's talk BCS here. Am I crazy in thinking that Florida might actually beat Alabama in the SEC Championship game?
Sun, Nov 16 | DCist

MSUC Phase 1 Winners Announced

AUSTIN, Texas – September 16, 2008 – Epic Games, Inc. today announced at the Austin Game Developers Conference the winners of the first phase in the $1 Million Intel Make Something Unreal Contest, a competition that rewards aspiring game developers for making exceptional game modifica...
Tue, Sep 16 | BeyondUnreal

Review: Unreal Tournament III (Xbox360)

Unreal Tournament III had a lot riding on its shoulders with the first person shooter’s debut on the Xbox 360. We were thrilled with it, from the sheer variety of modes, beautiful and varied maps to the 360 exclusive split screen mode.
Wed, Aug 27 | EL33TONLINE

Mods On 360 Looking Doubtful

In an interview with Eurogamer, Microsoft's XNA group general manager, Chris Satchell, cast doubt on the ability to allow Xbox 360 downloadable user mods for games like Unreal Tournament 3. Here he contrasts the peer review system used for XNA content with modifications of retail games.
Fri, Apr 11 | BeyondUnreal

Our Worst Guesses for Microsoft's GDC Keynote [Gdc08]

Microsoft Buys Epic Games For $3 Billion Gamepro sounds certain that Epic would be a smart acquisition at $1 billion, but Mark Rein puts a higher price tag on the Gears of War and Unreal dev. We'll one up you, Mark, and make it a cool three billion.
Wed, Feb 20 | Kotaku

Review: Turok for Xbox 360

Graphically, the game is built in the Unreal Engine, so you know it’s good. But let’s just say that the dinosaurs look even more realistic in this title than they did in “Jurassic Park.” People look very similar to Gears of War or Unreal Tournament III, which is not really any surprise conside...
Fri, Feb 1 | Geek.com

Double PS3 Frankenreview: UT3 and The Orange Box [Roundup]

The most important thing about Unreal Tournament III is its speed. Where as UT2004 felt heavy and a little on the clunky side, Unreal Tournament III feels lean, and mean, and frenetic. Even though the speed of the game was slightly slowed down for the PlayStation 3 version (meaning, the play...
Wed, Dec 12 | Kotaku

Hollywood Insight on Unreal Engine 3 Technology

LOS ANGELES—Epic Games' Unreal Engine 3 technology is grabbing the attention of Hollywood producers. Once Warner Bros. Television's "Chadam" project, a 10-part, short form Internet series produced by HDFilms, appears online, Jace Hall, former game developer, Hollywood executive a...
Tue, Nov 13 | Kotaku