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Unreal Tournament Pre-alpha (2014)
''Unreal Tournament'' was a first-person arena shooter video game developed by Epic Games. It is the ninth game in the '' Unreal'' franchise, the fifth game in the '' Unreal Tournament'' series, and the first entry to be released since 2007's ''Unreal Tournament 3''. The game utilizes Epic's Unreal Engine 4 and was released for free on Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux. The game was released as an alpha in 2014, but was never completed due to Epic Games' focus on '' Fortnite Battle Royale.'' ''Unreal Tournament''s development was crowdsourced and open to contribution from anyone with Epic Games using forums for discussions and Twitch livestreams for updates. The source code of the game was published on GitHub. Development had ceased by July 2017 when the team transitioned over to ''Fortnite'', though a formal announcement of the end of development was not made until December 2018. The game remains available for free in its June 2017 configuration (version 0.1.12). The ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epic Games
Epic Games, Inc. is an American video game and software developer and publisher based in Cary, North Carolina. The company was founded by Tim Sweeney as Potomac Computer Systems in 1991, originally located in his parents' house in Potomac, Maryland. Following its first commercial video game release, '' ZZT'' (1991), the company became Epic MegaGames, Inc. in early 1992 and brought on Mark Rein, who has been its vice president since. After moving the headquarters to Cary in 1999, the studio changed its name to Epic Games. Epic Games develops Unreal Engine, a commercially available game engine which also powers their internally developed video games, such as ''Fortnite'' and the ''Unreal'', '' Gears of War'' and ''Infinity Blade'' series. In 2014, Unreal Engine was named the "most successful videogame engine" by ''Guinness World Records''. Epic Games owns the game developers Chair Entertainment, Psyonix, Mediatonic and Harmonix, as well as cloud-based software developer Clou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
