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Unreal Tournament 3 FREE WEEKEND is on Now - Plus Save 60% on UT3 Black or the Unreal Deal Pack

September 17, 2009, 1:09 pm - Valve - General Announcement

Play Unreal Tournament 3 FREE this weekend! Visit the UT3 game page for more info or click here to start downloading and play now.

Plus you can save 60% on Unreal Tournament 3 and the Unreal Deal Pack or pick up the original Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition as a standalone for next to nothing.

Unreal Tournament 3 FREE WEEKEND starts Thursday! Pre-Load Now!

September 16, 2009, 4:51 pm - Valve - General Announcement

Play Unreal Tournament 3 FREE this weekend! Visit the UT3 game page to start pre-loading and be ready to play as soon as it starts Thursday at 1:00PM PDT (8:00PM GMT).

Unreal Tournament 3 Black Free Weekend! Plus Patch 2.1, and All New Content with Phase 3 of Mod Contest

May 26, 2009, 11:12 am - Valve - General Announcement

CARY, N.C. (May 26, 2009) — Epic Games, Inc. is giving players more reasons than ever to jump online and check out Unreal Tournament 3 Black. This Thursday, May 28, will commence a long weekend in which anyone can log onto Valve's Steam digital distribution service, download Unreal Tournament 3 Black and play the game through the weekend free of charge. Pre-load for the follow-up Free Weekend begins today.

During the previous Free Weekend of Unreal Tournament 3 Black on Steam, the game claimed the number one spot on the bestseller list, and simultaneous player numbers jumped by more than 2000%.

Unreal Tournament 3 together with the free Titan Pack constitutes Unreal Tournament 3 Black. The Titan Pack is a massive bonus pack with loads of enhancements and new content including environments, the Titan mutator, the Greed and Betrayal gametypes, the Stealthbender vehicle, weapons, deployables, characters and more. Unreal Tournament 3 Black also includes over 50 Steamworks Achievements.

Players who purchased Unreal Tournament 3 at retail can enter their retail key by using the "Activate a product on Steam" feature in the Steam client, and Steam will automatically update them to Unreal Tournament 3 Black for free.

Unreal Tournament 3 Black now also includes the recently released Patch 2.1 with even more fixes and upgrades such as award progress when using custom maps and characters, mod support enhancements, various gameplay tweaks and bug fixes, and additional user interface improvements.

In addition to Epic's internal efforts to support Unreal Tournament 3, mod authors all over the world have created new levels, characters, weapons, vehicles and total conversions for the game as part of the $1 Million Intel Make Something Unreal Contest (www.makesomethingunreal.com). Phase 3 of the competition just closed, and the judging process has begun. A few notable entries so far include:

— Improved mods from Phase 2 (www.youtube.com/watch?v=boRLoXYf1_A)
— Community Bonus Pack 3 (www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yoWdRlHVUw&e)
— Angels Fall First: Planetstorm (www.moddb.com/mods/angels-fall-first-planetstorm)
— Coda (www.codamod.com)
— Prometheus (www.moddb.com/mods/prometheus)
— Runestorm (www.runestorm.com)
— Snowreal (www.moddb.com/mods/snowreal)
— The Ball (www.moddb.com/mods/the-ball)
— The Haunted (www.moddb.com/mods/the-haunted)

And there's much, much more available at www.makesomethingunreal.com/phase3.aspx.


To download Unreal Tournament 3 Black, visit http://store.steampowered.com/app/13210.

About Epic Games
Epic Games, Inc., based in Cary, NC and established in 1991, develops cutting-edge games and cross-platform game engine technology. The company has created multiple million-selling, award-winning titles in its Unreal series, most recently shipping Unreal Tournament 3 for PC, PLAYSTATION®3 and Xbox 360®. Epic's breakthrough game, Gears of War, won over 30 Game of the Year awards, and the sales of Gears of War and Gears of War 2 have eclipsed 10 million units. Epic's Unreal Engine 3 is the three-time consecutive winner of Game Developer magazine's Best Engine Front Line Award and this year's Hall of Fame inductee. Additional information about Epic can be obtained through the Epic Games Web site at www.epicgames.com.

Epic, Epic Games, Gears of War, Gears of War 2, Unreal, Unreal Engine and Unreal Tournament are trademarks or registered trademarks of Epic Games, Inc. in the United States of America and elsewhere. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Unreal Tournament 3 Black Update Released

May 4, 2009, 2:39 pm - Valve - Product Update

Updates to Unreal Tournament 3 Black have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

UI

• Disabled wrap for options lists on PC.
  
• Split out player and bot counts on mixed servers in server browser.
  
• No longer require double clicking on main menu.
  
• Fixed problem with vote menu, where list positions and scrollbar get reset after the menu updates
  
• Fixed issue with 'no password' connection error not asking for a password, when in online play
  
• Fixed issue with dialog boxes, where button positions are not updated correctly after resolution or message length changes
  
• Made the Instant Action and Host Game menus properly recover the saved mutator list, when the Mutator menu is not opened.
  
• Fixed an incorrect call to WorldInfo.TravelFailed, and fixed the 'Incorrect Password' dialog not asking for a password.
  

• No longer disable achievements for mods that don't contain code (maps and custom characters).
  
• Fixed issues with weapons respawning with Duel and with WeaponsRespawn mutator.
  
• Reduced visibility of DM beacons in darkmatch.
  
• Fixed greed exploit with redeemer.
  
• Updated russian localization. Thanks Michael Sokolkov.
  
• Removed os helper workaround for Windows 2003 server, now that we have a better fix.
  
• Fixed low gore issue with Titans.
  
• Fix for wrong team shader in rare cases.
  
• Fixed dropflag command not working. Also fixes a CTF exploit.
  
• Fixed excessive link beam decals for listen servers.
  
• Fixed warfare orb not showing up on minimap on second and subsequent rounds on map where teams switch sides.
  
• Reduced damage to nodes/cores from dead Titan explosion.
  
• Reduced damage Titans do to nodes/core with weapons.
  
• Titan melee doesn't knock down spawn protected players.
  

• Fixed problem where maplist entries contain unwanted whitespace, and move invalid maplist entries to a separate 'BadMaps' list, instead of just deleting them
  
• Fixed bug where the advertised game was wrong after switching gametypes, but only for the startup gametype
  
• Fixed bug with password being removed from URL, during non-seamless travel on the same server
  
• Fixed bug where the current game profiles mutators would be carried over into other gametypes
  
• Added 'MapReplayLimit' to UTMapList; this overrides the same value in UTMapListManager, unless set to -1
  
• Added code to trim down the size of server details results when they become too large, fixes problem where servers would not be advertised
  
• Adjusted vote code to end vote rounds early, when all players have voted, and to switch map immediately instead of respecting the 'EndTimeDelay' and 'RestartWait' settings
  
• In endgame votes, forcibly extend the first vote round by 16 seconds (i.e. the time it takes for the vote menu to popup)
  
• Added admin-only buttons to the vote menu, which allow admins to force a winning vote
  
• Fixed non-seamless travel client timeout disconnects.
  
• Now consider server "pure" with same rules as achievements (custom maps, characters, and Epic mutators + webadmin allowed).
  
• Adjusted mutator voting to properly account for mutators in the game profile settings (both added and excluded mutators)
  

• Fixed problem with cooking with -mod and ModShaderCache
  
• Fixed map makers unable to cook when using Titan Pack assets. May need to delete GlobalPersistentCookerData.upk from My Games\Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\Published\CookedPC
  
• Added mutator hook for blocking team changes
  

• Fixed WAR-Confrontation raptor exploit.
  
• Possible fix for darkmatch memory leak.
  
• Added refshadercache to patch, so titan content will have shaders compiled.
  
• Fix for reported rare WAR-Floodgate crash.
  

Unreal Tournament 3 Free Weekend On Now

March 13, 2009, 10:02 am - Valve - General Announcement

Unreal Tournament 3 Black, the fully updated version of UT3 with the Titan Pack, is now available to play for free this weekend.

All you need is a free Steam account to play: Install Steam, Create an account, Play UT3 Black.

Free period starts this Friday at 10am PST and ends Sunday at 1pm PST.

Unreal Tournament 3 Steam Sale Extended

March 10, 2009, 4:18 pm - Valve - Product Update

Free Weekend Encore Begins Friday

Unreal Tournament 3 Black, the fully updated version of UT3 with the Titan Pack, has enjoyed an increase of over 2000% in simultaneous player numbers since its March 5th release and last week's Free Weekend on Steam. In addition, UT3 Black has claimed the number one spot on Steam's bestseller list.

To celebrate the game's overwhelming success and meet the huge demand, the UT3 Black 40% off Steam sale has been extended through Sunday, March 22, and an encore Free Weekend of play begins this Friday via Steam. Pre-load for the encore Free Weekend begins today.

For more information, please visit www.steamgames.com.

Update Unreal Tournament 3 With Steamworks

January 29, 2009, 2:22 pm - Valve - Press Release

In preparation for the massive update coming for Unreal Tournament 3, those who own a retail copy may now register it with Steam, free of charge.

The latest installment in the legendary online action series from Epic will be updated automatically via Steam and introduce support for Steamworks Achievements (with over 50 Achievements), plus a host of new features and enhancements in AI, Server Browsing, Demo Recording, Mod Support, and more.

To register your retail copy on Steam, simply click the main menu option 'Games' and select 'Activate a product on Steam' from within the Steam client.

Unreal Tournament 3 Update Released

August 13, 2008, 6:45 pm - Valve - Product Update

Updates to Unreal Tournament 3 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Unreal Tournament 3

• Fixed overlay mesh showing up on hidden sniper rifle when un-zoomed
  
• Added motion blur menu option for PC (defaults to off)
  
• Fixed zero extent collision bug in octree code (finding nodes in Z axis)
  
• LOD Hysteresis / LOD Decision making bug fix
  
• Fixed default mesh not having proper LOD settings
  
• Fixed rare darkwalker physics crash
  
• Added player name list to server browser
  

Steam Welcomes Epic Games

March 17, 2008, 12:10 pm - Valve - Product Release

World-renowned developer Epic Games makes its debut on Steam today, delivering the award-winning Unreal and Unreal Tournament franchise to Steam gamers everywhere.

The Epic hits now available on Steam include the debut classic Unreal Gold, Unreal 2: The Awakening and the Unreal Tournament series: Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition, Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor's Choice Edition, and the recently released Unreal Tournament 3, which has shipped over a million copies to date. For the ultimate Unreal experience, nab the Unreal Deal Pack, an incredible value at just $59.95.

To celebrate the launch, all of Epic’s games on Steam are available for 10% off their regular price (offer ends March 24).