In December 2022—so, just a few months again—Epic determined to shut a bunch of servers for outdated Unreal Event video games. This was dangerous information for long-suffering followers, however it was met with one small silver lining: Epic leaked/introduced plans to re-release Unreal Event 3, without spending a dime, “no strings hooked up”.
An replace on Unreal Event 3’s Steam web page—which was left public and accessible for months—revealed the recreation would characteristic cross-play throughout all three of the PC’s main shopfronts (Steam, Epic Video games Retailer and GOG) and Epic mentioned wrote on the web page “No microtransactions and no strings hooked up. That is the fully-featured, award-winning first-person shooter you fell in love with… fully free.”
Turns on the market was not less than one string hooked up, although, as a result of as pointed out in this Wario64 tweet, the sport has now merely disappeared, with all mentions on Unreal Event 3’s Steam web page of there being a brand new, free model having lately been eliminated. In the meantime should you seek for Unreal Event on Epic or GOG you get zero outcomes.
Requested for affirmation of the discharge’s cancellation, an Epic spokesperson informed Kotaku “we have now nothing to share”. Man, this sucks! The server shutdowns had been dangerous sufficient, but when this launch has been cancelled as properly which means there shall be zero Unreal Event video games accessible on any of the three largest shopfronts on the PC. And that is the second time one thing like this has occurred, after Epic cancelled an earlier Unreal Event reboot in 2018.
UT was an enormous sequence, and whereas its later video games didn’t have fairly have the identical impression, its earlier titles had been foundational within the growth of the multiplayer first-person shooter as we all know it as we speak. To see the sequence’ legacy uncared for like this—by the corporate who initially launched it, no much less—is a big bummer to followers now having to depend on group servers and piracy to play the video games.
