# Epic Games to make new Unreal Tournament, will be open-source and free (and not just free-to-play)

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**Created:** [May 8, 2014, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epic-games-to-make-new-unreal-tournament-will-be-open-source-and-free-and-not-just-free-to-play/687995 "2014-05-08T19:00:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epic-games-to-make-new-unreal-tournament-will-be-open-source-and-free-and-not-just-free-to-play/687995/1 "2014-05-08T19:00:22Z")

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> **[Remember Unreal Tournament? Epic's making a new one and it's free](https://www.engadget.com/2014-05-08-unreal-tournament.html?ncid=rss_truncated)**
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> Epic Games is known for a lot of things, the Gears of War game franchise and development tool Unreal Engine prime among them. But old-school game fans might know Epic Games for another classic franchise: Unreal Tournament. The long-dormant series is...

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> Epic announced this afternoon that the next Unreal Tournament game begins development starting today with “a small team of UT veterans” focused on development for Windows, Mac and Linux. The entire development is open source, which Epic characterizes as, “a collaboration between Epic, UT fans and UE4 developers.” As that line infers, the game’s being created using Unreal Engine 4. Best of all? When the game’s ready to play, it will be free. As Epic puts it: “Not free to play, just free.”

This looks to be months if not years away, but I’m looking forward to it. The various versions of UT were my favorite multiplayer FPSs.

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**Author:** ![JKilez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@JKilez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKilez)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epic-games-to-make-new-unreal-tournament-will-be-open-source-and-free-and-not-just-free-to-play/687995/2 "2014-05-09T03:28:10Z")

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Here’s hoping that it ends up being more UT2004 and less UT3.

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epic-games-to-make-new-unreal-tournament-will-be-open-source-and-free-and-not-just-free-to-play/687995/3 "2014-05-09T13:52:50Z")

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To me, it never got better than the original Unreal Tournament. That game would run on a Casio wristwatch connected to the internet via smoke signals which was great for me because that’s essentially what my rig was at the time.