Well, it most definitely had a good run. Epic Games halted the development for Unreal Tournament. The latest iteration will be free and available in online game stores, but the developer will not update the game. Unreal Tournament is still in the prealfa phase.
The news comes from Epic Games CEO, Tim Sweeney, who mentions this to Variety. The developer would be planning to sell some of his older titles via GOG.com.
“‘Unreal Tournament’ remains available in the store but isn’t actively developed,” he told Variety. “We’ve recently worked with GOG on making classic Epic Games titles available and we’re planning to bring more of them to the store in their original glory.”
“Unreal Tournament” is the ninth installment in a first-person shooter franchise created by Epic Games and Digital Extremes in 1999. This latest installment was announced in 2014 as a sort of opensource development version of the game. But as “Fortnite’s” popularity increased with the release of its free Battle Royale mode, resources were pulled from other parts of the studio to focus on “Fortnite.”
While the game isn’t officially dead, the “Unreal Tournament” hasn’t received an official update since the summer of 2017.
