In the all-new $1 Million Intel Make Something Unreal Contest, aspiring game developers create modifications (“mods”) for the PC version of Unreal Tournament 3 in a range of categories including levels, characters, weapons, game types, tools, vehicles and more. Winnings exceed well over $1 million in value, consisting of one coveted Unreal Engine 3 license as a grand prize in addition to other cash awards and prizes, including Intel Software Development Products and Velocity Micro PCs based on the Intel® Dual Socket Extreme Desktop Platform with two Intel® Core™2 Extreme quad-core processors. The 2008 “$1 Million Intel Make Something Unreal Contest” will be judged in four preliminary phases and a grand final. Judging began in June 2008 and will conclude, with the grand final prizes being awarded, in late 2009.

The competition rewards top mods created for Unreal Tournament 3 with cash and hardware prizes in four preliminary phases and a grand final judging. Epic will reveal the winners in all 10 Phase 1 categories later this month at the Austin Game Developers Conference, September 15-17, 2008.

The Best Game Type category finalists:

• Battle Team/ Freezetag Arena by Nico “BattleMode” de Vries
• Cubes of Serenity by Anna Beck-Thomsen, Lawrence Johnson, Jens Hammerhøj, André Johansen, Martin Larsen, Janusch Häring
• UT3DOM by Team Domination
• Domination Reloaded by spl0k
• Galtanor’s Invasion by Michael “Galtanor” Wells
• Proelium by Martin “Pfhoenix” Actor
• The Ball: Pehua by The Ball Team
• Unreal Demolition 2 by Dan Weiss
• UT2D by Team Joe Bates (and various mappers)
• Written Off by David Jenkinson and Ben Moser

The Best Game Type honorable mentions:

• Attrition by “OlympusMons”
• CTF++ by Shee Labs Game Development
• Endless Falling by Yuan Shen, Kai Song Liu, Chen Huang and Tao Cui
• Fleet Wars Alpha by Martin “Pfhoenix” Actor
• Mini-Golf Tournament by Rob Howland
• UT Race by Matthew Fawcett
• Zombie Invasion by Eric Blade

The Best Tool category finalists:

• Blender_export by John “Darknet”
• HMCS by David “DGUnreal” Green
• Mark4U by Andreas
• skUT3 by Nicolas “SkorpSSS” Imbert
• Ultimate Console by Matthew Fawcett
• uMax by Christian Herzog
• Unreal Visualization Toolkit by Alastair Hebson
• UnrealPackage by Sam Harwell
• UnrealRSC by Alan
• UT3 Tweaker by Brad G.
• UWindow2 by James Tan

Best Tool submissions with an honorable mention:

• rK DemoWatcher by Ulrich Scheller
• UnrealScript Editor Alpha 1 by Aurélien Reeves
• UT3 Cache Converter by Brad G.

The Best Use of Physics category finalists:

• Ash Gravity Gun by Aaron “Charybdis” Ash
• Cubes of Serenity by Anna Beck-Thomsen, Lawrence Johnson, Jens Hammerhøj, André Johansen, Martin Larsen and Janusch Häring
• DM-Blockland by Simeon “Lord_Simeon” Spargo
• DM-Nowhere by Remus Brailoiu
• JetPack by Martin “Pfhoenix” Actor
• Mini-Golf Tournament by Rob Howland
• Raggy Weapons by Martin “Pfhoenix” Actor
• The Ball: Pehua by The Ball Team
• Unreal Demolition 2 by Dan Weiss

Best Mutator honorable mentions:

• The Mutator Weeks by Shee Labs Game Development
• Gibalicious by Miles Asvachin
• VAS Volatile Ammo by Dion “KalCorp” Rentos
• Raggy Weapons by Martin “Pfhoenix” Actor
• Defector by Jeremiah Ellison
• BattleMOD by Nico “BattleMode” de Vries
• VAS Auto-Shields by Dion “KalCorp” Rentos
• Coda Sword by Denrei
• Portable Spawners by Antone Franich
• BattleTrans by Nico “BattleMode” de Vries
• Circus Mutator by James
• JukeBox by Jason Yu

Epic will begin accepting submissions for Phase 2 of the $1 Million Intel Make Something Unreal Contest on September 30, 2008, and the entry deadline for Phase 2 is October 17, 2008. Participation in Phase 1 is not required for eligibility in Phase 2. Visit www.makesomethingunreal.com for more details on the contest.