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1. Study: Video games can improve eyesight

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   ... always pick up on facial expressions, and also have trouble seeing stains and spots on clothing. The study was conducted by having one group of subjects playing Atari's Unreal Tournament 2004 or Call ...

2. UPDATED: AMD: Three new Socket AM3 chips, two are Phenom II X3

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... 9 also show a slight improvement. Crysis WARHEAD is up 1.7%, Far Cry 2 up 4.2%, Unreal Tournament 3 up 2.8%, World in Conflict up 3.0%, Left 4 Dead up 2.5%. In terms of raw compute performance, Xbit ...

3. CES 2009: Nvidia releases GeForce GTX 285 and GTX 295 for high-end

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... over Radeon HD 4870 X2 in 3DMark Vantage 1920 x 1200 (4X AA/ 16X Ansiso). Unreal Tournament 3 v1.3 HQ shows 136.21 fps, with GTX 280 showing 122.58 and Radeon HD 4870 X2 showing 129.81. Observed total ...

4. UPDATED: Nvidia takes gaming into full-3D with stereoscopic glasses

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   ... Skater 4, Topspin, Torino 2006, Turok, Two Worlds, Universal Combat, Unreal Tournament 2004, Unreal Tournament III, Vampires The Masquerade - Bloodlines, Winning Eleven 7, Wolverine's Revenge, World of ...

5. CES 2009: AMD releases Phenom II X4 and Dragon desktop platform

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... Mainconcept H.264 compression which is 19.8% faster, Unreal Tournament 3 which is also 19.8% faster. The slowest increase came in Supreme Commander, which was 1.5% and Studio 12 which was 6.9%. 18 other ...

6. Nehalem - Intel's new Core i7 gives them a big new lead

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... 965 at 61400, 66045 and 72778, compared to Phenom X4 9950's 33661. Crysis 1680 x 1050 shows 140.9, 150.6, 162.7 frames per second on 920, 940 and 965, compared to 107.8 on Phenom X4 9950. Unreal Tournament ...

7. NVISION LAN party sets world record

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   ... all, 203 people played games for 36 hours starting at 11PM Monday August 25th till 11AM Wednesday August 27th.  Most of the players battled it out on traditional LAN party games like Quake, Unreal ...

8. Nvidia touts physics, but financial trouble ahead

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... technology. The first “Power Pack” has the sole purpose to get GeForce card owners interested in PhysX acceleration: According to Nvidia, in the PhysX-enabled levels of Unreal Tournament 3, the GeForce ...

9. Nvidia to bring WHQL-certified PhysX drivers on August 5th

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

     After demonstrating beta drivers featuring GPU-accelerated physics on 3DMark Vantage and Unreal Tournament III (GeForce GTX and 9800 boards), Nvidia is getting ready to release the official Windows ...

10. Outrage over physics drivers: Is Nvidia guilty?

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... was published, ATI partners contacted us with similar claims about Unreal Tournament 3. The whole revolves around driver Nvidia’s driver version 177.39. It all would be fine and dandy if somebody actually ...

11. Who needs D-SUB, DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort? USB rocks!

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... However, the bandwidth limits showed up in games such as Unreal Tournament III, Gears of War and Call of Duty 4: It seems that those games don’t like the tiling architecture. In Need for Speed: Pro Street ...

12. Crytek, Epic lost billions of dollars because of piracy

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... at the 2008 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, CA. We spoke with Mark Rein, VP of Epic Games, and learned that the Unreal Tournament 3 servers received over 40 million attempts at illegitimate ...

13. Midway may become part of Viacom

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Brief)

    ... strong entity for [Viacom executives] and it strategically fits in with their overall plan," said Booty. One of Midway's most revered properties is Unreal Tournament.  It it also a large publisher ...

14. 3D Monitors coming down in price, but still expensive

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... told). Owners of the monitor we talked to reported that Unreal Tournament 3 as well as other Unreal Engine 3-based games look great on the 3D LCD. ...

15. Epic confirms Unreal Tournament III Xbox 360 release date

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Brief)

    Los Angeles (CA) - Midway and Epic Games have announced that first-person shooter Unreal Tournament 3, previously exclusive to the PlayStation 3 and PCs, will receive an Xbox 360 release with new content ...

16. Inside Intel's ray tracing research

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... founder and Unreal creator Tim Sweeney, we learned about the future integration of CPU and GPU instructions, indicating that we will see code that executes on graphics chips or the CPU, whichever proves ...

17. Valve unites Epic Games, id Software and themselves under the same roof

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... Steam, making this three out of three for founders of FPS gaming. Steam is now expanded with a complete Unreal line-up, starting with Unreal Gold and Unreal II: The Awakening for single-player titles, ...

18. Tim Sweeney, Part 3: Unreal Engine 4.0 aims at next-gen console war

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

      Interview - We are wrapping up our interview with EPIC Games CEO and Unreal creator Tim Sweeney today with an outlook into the future of video gaming. What will be the next generation of game ...

19. Tim Sweeney, Part 2: “DirectX 10 is the last relevant graphics API”

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

      In the second part of our interview Tim Sweeney, creator of the Unreal game engine and CEO of Epic Games, discusses the challenges and dramatic changes that are just ahead for game developers ...

20. “A LAN party by gamers, for gamers” – PDXLAN 11

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... what daddy does,” Crooker told me. I often see LAN parties fade into obscurity because organizers couldn’t understand business aspects of the event.  After all, a top score in Unreal Tournament doesn’t ...

21. DJ Tiësto and computer games form an unholy alliance

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Famous rave DJ Tiësto has joined forces with Streamline Studios, the makers of music and special effects for famous game titles like Gears of War and Unreal Tournament 3. Amsterdam (Netherlands) – ...

22. Unreal Tournament 3 Beta demo unleashed today

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Midway announced today that the beta demo version of Unreal Tournament 3 for the PC will be available this afternoon. Chicago (IL) - Midway announced today that the beta demo version of Unreal Tournament ...

23. Unreal Tournament 3 likely to be pushed back to 2008

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Midway has announced that Unreal Tournament 3, originally set to be its killer PS3 app for the holiday season, may not make it out this year after all. Chicago (IL) - Midway has announced that Unreal ...

24. Playstation: The Rumblepack returns

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... titles for North America and Europe that will be support the Rumblepack initially. These titles include Biohazard 5, Turok, FIFA, Metal Gear Solid 4, Unreal Tournament 3, Condemned 2, EchoChrome, F1 Championship ...

25. Comic-Con a tale of two conventions - UPDATE gallery 3 added

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... the busier game booths included Unreal Tournament 3 and Blizzard Entertainment showing off World of Warcraft Burning Crusade.  Even though the Burning Crusade was released several months ago, gamers ...

26. Epic Games gets slammed with lawsuit over Unreal Tournament

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Silicon Knights is suing Epic Games over the Unreal Tournament engine, claiming a breach of contract caused significant damages to its upcoming game Too Human. Raleigh (NC) - Silicon Knights is suing ...

27. E3 2007

    (Event Coverage/Event Coverage Features)

    ...  DS games that break the mold (image gallery) Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction (image gallery) Unreal Tournament III (image gallery) ...

28. PS3 is "ideal" for Unreal Torunament mods, says Epic Games producer

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... robust online community, but the PS3 is more attractive for developers, according to Epic Games's lead producer Jeff Morris. Check out the ambitious Unreal Tournament III We went through a demo ...

29. E3 media briefing: Sony goes for the overkill

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... the look to the future for games like Unreal Tournament 3, MGS 4, and other unnamed online games Sony won't talk about yet, which is pretty much where things stood before.  And even at that, the ...

30. Update 3: E3 2007 game announcements and lineup

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ...       Midway Stranglehold PS3, Xbox 360, PC 8/2008   BlackSite: Area 51 PS3, Xbox 360, PC 9/2007   Unreal Tournament 3 PS3 November 2007   Ultimate ...

31. Unreal Tournament can improve vision - study

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... into an experimental group that played Unreal Tournament while the control group played Tetris. Both groups played their respective games for one hour a day. After one month, the Unreal Tournament players ...

32. Unreal Anthology ships

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Midway Games, the publisher of the popular Unreal games series, today announced that it has shipped Unreal Anthology, a collection of four of the Unreal PC titles. Chicago (IL) - Midway Games, the publisher ...

33. Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 invades AMD territory on price/performance chart

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... indices, along with replacing performance estimates with across-the-board real-world figures for Unreal Tournament IV and older processors. The new figures give the E6400 a performance index score of 2.74, ...

34. Some AMD Athlon 64 X2s now 41% below Intel price/performance curve

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... the P4 2 GHz period. But Doom III, to borrow a term from gamers, is "old," so we've replaced the Doom III performance data with new data from Unreal Tournament 2004. Tom's Hardware Guide has compiled data ...

35. Team Fortress 2 and the Resurgence of Class-Based Gaming

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... Call of Duty 2 and Quake IV. However its popularity has waned significantly, and only the advanced Deathmatch we see in games like CS and Unreal Tournament remains a consistently popular form of the good ...

36. Is Physics The Third Wheel In Gaming?

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... the question of games, which are taking full advantage of all the features that a dedicated physics card can offer. Unreal Tournament 2007 is one example that Ageia's Hegde gave us. "When physics become ...

37. Matrox ships TripleHead2Go

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... works under Windows as well as with currently 135 video games, including World of Warcraft, Half-Life 2: Lost Coast and Unreal Tournament 2004, according to Matrox. The TripleHead2Go is available directly ...

38. TG Daily Video: eFocus Part 2

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... a home user and a server on the Internet side. A simulated 256 kilobit per second DSL connection was running both Unreal Tournament 2004 and a file transfer in the background. Gameplay was jerky at times, ...

39. Hello Los Angeles! Pictures from the frontline, plus a timetable of the week ahead

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... to the Tournament of the Unreal Tuesday morning will be kicked off by Nintendo, who will be hosting their conference at a venue no less than the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, home to the Oscars. Their conference ...

40. Unreal Tournament 2007 to be demonstrated at E3

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... Entertainment Expo next week. Among the titles show visitors will be able to see is Unreal Tournament 2007 (PC, PS3), the latest version of the Unreal franchise, which is currently developed by Epic games. ...

41. E3 2006 Preview: The showdown between consoles and PCs

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... fans? This could be a bright comet of a game that burns out fairly quickly, as franchise role-playing and strategy titles such as Midway's Unreal Tournament 2007 appear well positioned to command and conquer ...

42. ATI releases April Catalyst driver update

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... in Unreal Tournament 2004 on all Radeon X1x00 non-Crossfire configurations. The "Chuck" patch, which enables high dynamic range lighting (HDR) with anti-aliasing (AA) in Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, is ...

43. To buy, or not to buy? Your answer, for ten pints...

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... back on. Half-Life 2 can wait, Unreal Tournament 2004 is out and so is Dangerous Waters (shock and horror from the audience... it was taking up too much of my time, and I was far too obsessed with hearing ...

44. Matrox TripleHead2Go connects three screens to mainstream graphics cards

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... of Empires III, Doom 3, FEAR, Flight Simulator 2004, Quake IV and Unreal Tournament 2004. Software that cannot be displayed on all three displays will be limited to the center screen, Wood said. "Running ...

45. Unreal Tournament 2007 headed to PC before PS3

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Brief)

      An Epic Games producer has denied claims originating in a US PlayStation magazine that Unreal Tournament 2007 will be a PlayStation 3 launch title. An Epic Games producer has denied claims originating ...

46. ATI releases Catalyst 5.12 driver

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 25 percent in speed, Comanche 4 about 40 percent, Tomb Raider Angel of Darkness und Unreal Tournament 2004 up to 10 percent, Half-Life 2 up to 8 percent and Splinter Cell up to 8 percent as well. Performance ...

47. AsylumLAN raises money for tornado victims

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

      LAN Gamers usually compete for the most kills in games such as Quake or Unreal Tournament, but over this past weekend gamers at AsylumLAN 22 played games to raise money for nearby tornado victims. ...

48. PC gamers muster using Xfire

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Brief)

      For many PC gamers, getting a group of friends together to engage in online battles in such multiplayer games as Unreal Tournament 2004 or Battlefield 1942 has always been a major problem. For ...

49. New ATI Catalyst driver has HDTV wizard and 64-bit extensions

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... 3DMark2001, Pacific Fighters, Sail Simulator 4, SolidWorks 2004, Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, and Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic. Corrected Linux issues affect Unreal Tournament 2004 as well as Viewperf ...

50. Game titles for World Cyber Games 2005 announced

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Brief)

    ... console titles for the event. While the number of official WCG games remains the same, two titles from 2004, 'Unreal Tournament 2004' and 'Project Gotham Racing 2' were replaced with a Real Time Strategy ...