Midway Warning of Unreal Delay
The PS3's Christmas line-up continues to shrink.
Unreal Tournament III is still on track to arrive for PC this November but the prospects for the PlayStation 3 version aren't looking as bright.
Midway, the publisher of the series, said on Tuesday that it "expected" the PlayStation 3 version of the latest Unreal Tournament game to slip into early 2008.
The PS3 version of Unreal Tournament III had until now been considered a timed exclusive for the console, with the Xbox 360 edition to follow in 2008.
But just because Midway expects the game to be delayed, that's no reason to give up all hope of playing it before Christmas. Epic's Mark Rein said after Midway's revelation that the development team is trying its best to get the game out on PS3 before the end of the year.
"However," Rein said on the Epic forums, "we will only ship it once it's ready and is the best game we can deliver."
Though the delay is bad news for PS3 owners with itchy trigger fingers, it could work out for the best. Rein said that the PS3 game, which was expected to come with a fraction of the maps from the PC version, will now include all of them.
In Midway's statement on Tuesday, the company also said that it would be pushing back the European release of the PS3 version of alien-themed shooter BlackSite: Area 51 into the first quarter of 2008.
Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo
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