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To borrow a John-ism: oh my goodness! You're either about to hate me forever, or laugh and offer to buy me a cupcake. Whatever the hell Nyan cat is, it's clearly a meme of terrifying scope. The original video's been viewed 46 million times, and now it's been snuck into Unreal 3 as a mod for the Redeemer. Just look.
This kind of thing just scares the hell out of me. While Bulletstorm isn't exactly the kind of game I'm going to put on a pedestal and hail as the one true future of electronic entertainment, it was a new franchise, a rare shooter that didn't take itself deathly seriously, a good-looker and a game that at least attempted a few bonus ideas. It did…
"Philosophical First Person Single Player Exploration Puzzle Art Game," apparently. I spotted Hazard: The Journey Of Life over on Indiegames, but I haven't had time to get it working yet. The video (below) is definitely worth checking out though, as this minimal Unreal Tournament 3 mod has a fascinating minimalistc presentation and promises some strange-looking puzzles. (More fodder for the first-person puzzle camp.) It seems…
I wonder if we're on the cusp of a golden age for Unreal Tournament 3 mods, after all these years of Half-Life 2's friendly tyranny. In the last few months we've had Prometheus, The Ball (which I'll also write about later, but I had a headache on the day I downloaded it. No, it's okay - don't weep for me) and now there's Airborn -…
RPS reader Robbie McKnight sent us a link to his new Unreal Tournament 3 map, which can be found here. He's taken something of an unusual angle on things as UT3 maps go: everything is built in primary colours and pre-school Platonics. I like the sun best of all. Compare and contrast, if you will, with this map. The two ends of the UT3 mapping…
Having been messing around with UT3 again in the wake of the ongoing Make Something Unreal competition, I've picked up a load of levels and mods, some of which I'll probably post about here in the next few days. The one that I want to get out of the way first is the excellent third-person demon/zombie shooter, The Haunted. (It's an Unreal Tournament 3 mod,…
This is splendid, and slightly mysterious. Beneath the click is a kind of promo video for DM-Spectrum, an Unreal Tournament 3 deathmatch level by Matt Bradley. He's created a kind of disco battlefield, which, according to his Vimeo page, he hasn't yet distributed. It seems that players have to navigate via the disco light flags to find their enemy, but it's not obvious how that…
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We probably should have talked more about what's been going on with Unreal Tournament 3 over the last couple of weeks. Why didn't we? Because it's not a game any of us feel particularly strongly about one way or another, and from earlier comments it didn't look like you lot did either. Having a famous name and being reasonably fun is no longer enough for…
If any reader of any website is likely to have World of Goo, you have to suspect RPS readers are. We did the first review! We never shut up about it! However if for some reason you don't, Steam are selling it for 75% off this weekend. That's just over four quid. Go get it. If you're feeling even four-quid skint, also over at Steam,…
You may remember Kieron doing science a few weeks back about NVIDIA's CUDA system - clever trickery that allows a GPU to perform processing feats other than pixel-pushing. There's a lot of real-world algorithm-crunching applications for it, but of most interest to gamers is that it can make your GeForce 8, 9 or 200-series card behave like a PhysX board. NVIDIA bought out PhysX makers…
Lordy lawks, this is the best thing my eyes have ever seen:
Sad tidings for fans of heavily normal-mapped pretend-man-shoots. Seems both Crysis and Unreal Tournament 3 haven't exactly stormed up the charts, which is a tragic and strange state of affairs for what were seemingly two of the most eagerly-anticipated PC games of the year.
I've got an Ageia PhysX card sat around somewhere, a piece of hardware about which I wasn't entirely complimentary a while back. I don't use it because a) there's yet to be a PhysX-enabled game which I've wanted to play for any reasonable length of time and b) it's one more furiously spinning fan in a PC that I can already hear humming like the…
One of the main reasons I've been enjoying Unreal Tournament III (aside from the “oh hey, I don't have to pick a class” relief) is the Scavenger. The Necris vehicles each have their own gunmetal-tentacle thing going on, but the Scavenger seems to be the epitome of what Epic were reaching for in their rendition of Wacky Races: TechnoGoth Edition. It might just be my…
My review of Unreal Tournament III has gone up on Eurogamer. It was a bit of a wake up call for me: a reminder that multiplayer FPS games are the reason I became so obsessed with the PC in the first place. After the super-beautiful but lacklustre demo I was all set to be bored by UT3, but it soon dragged me. I'm going to…
"The name's Malcolm." "Reaper." Eh? Anyway, it seems that Unreal Tournament III requires some kind of story mode to explain why you're locked into a series of battles, and also (according to my sources) why you keep respawning. Here we go: Eugh, these flu drugs are making me hallucinate.
Here's a few early impressions of the Unreal Tournament 3 demo, plus bonus anecdote from my gaming past. These are rather tainted by hungover subjectivity, so may very well not match your own feelings, but hell, outspoken nonsense is what you visit this site for, right?
The beta demo for Unreal Tournament 3 is out, but we can't find a server that isn't maxed out. Try here and here, if you're patient. Post any other good download links in the comments, y'all.
It's been everywhere already, but may as well mention it here so folk have somewhere else to express their outrage/joy/paranoia/confusion. Yes, Unreal Tournament 3 system specs! Will the beefy quad-core CPU and GeForce 8800 in my PC be worth the investment at last? Minimum System Requirements Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista 2.0+ GHZ Single Core Processor 512 Mbytes of System RAM NVIDIA 6200+ or…
Earlier in the week I was interviewing Epic's Cliff Bleszinski about Gears Of War on PC. It was a bit of shame really, because what I wanted to ask him about was Unreal Tournament III. I mean Gears looks fun - and I'll be talking about that in depth in a forthcoming PC Gamer, paper fans - but the true heavyweight for the PC is…
