New Unreal Tournament in development, and it'll be absolutely free

oh man. I'm totally gonna grab the source!

best news this year

You actually better put it out on linux, and not give us that crap you did for ut3. Besides that, my windows os will still be happy. It's been long overdue.

New Unreal Tournament? Yay!

Free to play? All interest lost.

Buying and selling mods seems like something that could have some serious legal ramifications, as there are always those mods based on existing IPs (i,e: Earth Special Forces, Exterminatus)

"It's a major surprise, as just two months ago, Epic Games cofounder Tim Sweeney said << LINK REMOVED >>."

Yet "Development on the game began today, May 8, Epic Games said"

So Eddie that means until TODAY there was no game in development.

This piques my interest, although we'll see how things turn out. Still, I've loved UT ever since playing UT99 for endless wasted periods in Web Design class, and UT2004 was even better, so I'm hoping this is more in the spirit of those two and not the disappointing UT3. It'll be a tough wait.

Awesome! Cant wait.

I really miss the chaos that is UT. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for this one. May even dust off some levels I did for the UE engine waaay back when.

Give me some instagib and let the fun begin.

Yay, finally an FPS that's less about "Cover system, aim down sights, gritty "HD", carry max 2 weapons, realism" and more about "Circle strafe, rocket jump, carry 73 weapons at once and 9001 ammo for each, chaos"! There's been a distinct lack of such games from the big devs for years now.

Also, YAY LINUX VERSION!

I'm eager for some good ol' face exploding.

Gettin a bit sick of reality based stuff ^^ Some runnin'round pickin weapon and shootin people in da face in unreal fashion sounds awesome.

Great! It'll probably be done very soon. All the necessary bits and pieces (including bots) in the engine already. All they need is to do some level design

EPIC FAIL!!! See what I did there? Lol haha EPIC FAIL!!!!!

Wow, this is awesome! Love these ideas and good old UT returning.

Not really a big fan of most mods. You find some that are decent every once a while but most are not worth anyone's time. People are going to end up paying way more than $60 when all is said and done.

I hope that whoever contributes content to the game would give it away for free - then "absolutely free" would be a truer statement than it is an exaggerated and wishful one.

(Yes, Eddie Makuch, you have wishful thinking there.)

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

This is such good news, I've just started mapping with UE4 (come over from Source) and this is just what I needed to give me the motivation to stick to it.

Completely free for the gamers, and they'll earn money through a marketplace planned for later on (which sounds like a good idea to me). Everybody's happy!

Incredibly smart move in establishing market-share for their unreal engine.

Finally a shooter that is closer to my style of gameplay. Now I just need a new Quake game and I'll be happy for a very long time.

unreal always a blast. I would love to see tripwire do another killing floor with the new unreal engine.

I wonder if this will be something like Gta online.? Where it came with another game like gta 5. Gta online was free with the purchase gtga 5

They better have bots or single player mode.

There's acutally Steam Trading cards for UT 2k4 , never knew.

Considering how many games are already based on previous releases of the Unreal engine, this seems like a good idea for both developers and gamers.

If memory serves, use of the last Unreal engine cost $50k for small developers. Out of reach for small indies, but feasible for small studios. This potentially opens things up on a whole new level.

so no single player then? :(

Sounds good to me. Been a fan of unreal tournaments since the first one. I still think 2004 was the best though

its like a big huddle of modders, fans, and devs coming together to create the Ultimate UT game....FOR FREE.....MY DREAM HAS COME TRUE.