Amid the noise around Doom, Overwatch and the er, less noise surrounding Battleborn, it's easy to forget Epic is still plugging away on a new Unreal Tournament.
Unreal Tournament
The next Unreal Tournament will be free, developed with the community
Fans will be able to sell mods on Epic's marketplace.
The next Unreal Tournament title - simply called Unreal Tournament - will be free on PC, Mac and Linux, Epic announced today in a Twitch Livestream.
Epic Games has no current plans for, and is not developing, a new Unreal Tournament game.
Unreal Tournament retrospective
Flak canon.
I've killed my little brother Matt hundreds of times. I've killed him on a gunboat. I've killed him on a train. I've killed him on a spaceship, but not, sadly, on a plane. It's been reciprocated in kind, too. He's sniped my head off on an asteroid, dropped a nuke into my castle, and splattered my giblets across a cathedral floor. Ah, memories.
Cliff Bleszinski wants to return to triple-A gaming, probably at his own studio
But he's not going to hurry his trunks off yet.
Doors open in the video games industry for someone like Cliff Bleszinski. He's famous in these parts. He left Epic Games in October and got away from it all, put some trunks on, went on holiday and spent time with his wife. Now he's had his break, what does he plan to do?
Cliff Bleszinski on mixing Unreal with Skyrim to make "SciFi-Rim" and more
Plus: "Mark my words, VR is coming back in a BIG way."
Cliff Bleszinski came across very well in an Ask Me Anything session on Reddit at the weekend.
Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney is to be the newest member of the notable AIAS (Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences) Hall of Fame.
Epic's multiplayer meisterwerk reviewed
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