Unreal Tournament 3 E3 2007 Trailer
Here’s the new trailer for Unreal Tournament 3 that was unveiled at this year’s E3. As you can see, the game looks freakin’ incredible. It already promises to live up to the fun and fast-paced gameplay of past UT game with a slew of new weapons and vehicles. Unreal Tournament 3 should be out this November from Midway.

Count this as an obscure article – at least for we American readers – but Tim Sweeney, founder of Epic Games, talked with German PG Games Hardware magazine a few weeks back about some of the enhancements in the Unreal Engine, DirectX 10 support and the upcoming Unreal Tournament 3. Sweeney also mentioned how Gears of War’s development has influenced the Unreal sequel:

PCGH: Are there any things you learned while developing Gears of War for next gen consoles that you can now benefit from when finalizing UT 3 for the PC?

Tim Sweeney: The Gears of War experience on Xbox 360 taught us to optimize for multi-core, and to improve the low-level performance of the key engine systems. This has carried over very well to PC. The division of UE3’s rendering and gameplay into separate threads, implemented originally for 360, has brought even more significant gains on PC where there is a more heavyweight hardware abstraction layer in DirectX, hence more CPU time spent in rendering relative to gameplay.

Also, the 360 work we did resulted in an engine that also runs well on low-end and mid-range PCs. This is very important for games today; the high-end PC gaming market alone is not big enough to support next-generation games with budgets in the $10-20M range. You need to run on ordinary mass-market PCs as well. In reading PC gaming websites, one might get the impression that everyone owns a dual-core PC with a pair of $600 GPUs in SLI configuration, but the reality is very different. More than 80% of PCs sold today are still single-core, and have very low-end DirectX9 graphics capabilities. Unreal Engine 3 supports those configurations well.

There really isn’t a lot of solid info but the Gears of War and Unreal Engine information is at least interesting for hardware minded folks.

A featured article in the latest Official Xbox Magazine has revealed some new details about Unreal Tournament 3. Epic games has set the release date around October 2007, and it looks like they are on track to release on time. Some of the new features mentioned in the article include 4 player co-op, confirmation of 18 new vehicles, and the inclusion of hover boards. Unreal Tournament 3 will also feature cross-play between the Xbox360 and PC versions. When asked about the disparities between an controller and a keyboard/mouse, Epic Games stated that the controls on the Xbox360 version are so good that half of the staff prefers the controller. Check below for some gameplay footage from the GDC.

Despite its price, the PS3 has some amazing titles in store for anyone who has willingly lost two limbs for one. And who knows, it just might save the console’s ass.

MyArcadePlanet.com is running a feature on the most anticipated upcoming Playstation 3 titles, along with embedded previews of the games it mentions. My money would have to be on Unreal Tournament 3, which is featured in a screenshot above.

In fact, one of my favorite past times has been running people over with vehicles in UT 2004. The squishy crunch is just so satisfying.

Midway has launched an official site for Unreal Tournament III. Right now there are some new screenshots, the trailer, and…not much else. Still this the probably the place where all the new information is going to go first, so it’s worth keeping an eye on.

Epic Games has launched the official site for their upcoming shooter, Unreal Tournament 3. The new site features an official trailer, a few screenshots, and a chance for gamers to sign up for a newsletter that will keep them updated will all the UT news.

I’ve been excited about this one for a while. As a huge fan of the original Unreal, as well as the whole UT series, I just don’t think this is a title you can afford to miss, especially if you consider that Epic is hot on the heels of the hugely successful Gears of War.