Epic Games formally halts Unreal Tournament improvement

Due to the rising success of Fortnite, Epic Games has put additional improvement of Unreal Tournament on maintain.

Work on Unreal Tournament was placed on maintain again in September because the staff directed all its effort in direction of growing Fortnite. Epic Games CEO and founder Tim Sweeney not too long ago instructed Variety that “Unreal Tournament remains available in store but isn’t actively developed”, in a disappointing blow to Unreal followers.

Epic Games has introduced a brand new Epic Games Store to rival Steam, which has had an inevitable influence on additional improvement of older titles.

Epic Games formally halts Unreal Tournament improvement

Sweeney additionally stated that Epic Games had “recently worked with GOG on making classic Epic Games titles available”, so we’ll hopefully see some previous favourites restored on the GOG storefront quickly.

Unreal Tournament is a first-person shooter franchise created by Epic Games and Digital Extremes all the way in which again in 1999. Back in 2014, Epic Games introduced that it will begin work on the newest title, however assets have been pulled to be able to deal with Fortnite.

The final Unreal Tournament replace was launched in 2017 and it doesn’t appear like there can be any extra updates any time quickly.

 
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