Epic Games update the Unreal Tournament website linking to the free downloads from OldUnreal

By Liam Dawe - 11 December 2024 at 10:02 am UTC [updated]

Back in November, I reported on Epic Games giving their approval for Unreal 1 and Unreal Tournament becoming completely free to download. Now, Epic Games have updated the official Unreal Tournament website to link to the OldUnreal community.

Their new website is to go along with the Unreal Tournament episode of Amazon's Secret Level series, which is a new adult animated anthology series featuring original stories set within the worlds of some of the world's most beloved video games.

Epic likely did this since Secret Level having an episode revisiting Unreal Tournament might have caused some to think Epic themselves were going to attempt to revive it, again. Clearly though, Epic are done with it, as they continue building Fortnite into a Roblox-styled Metaverse with all sorts of games.

Nice to see Epic putting up a proper website to give thanks to the OldUnreal community like this though, who have been patching up Epic's classic first-person shooters for years.

Epic Games only previously announced Unreal 1 and Unreal Tournament as being freely available, but the page also links to the OldUnreal website for Unreal 2, but they only host the demo and patches not the full game. It's not clear at the moment if this will also become freely available. I've reached out to Epic Games for confirmation on that and the later Unreal Tournament games. Update 3PM UTC: Epic Games replied to mention "we have nothing more to share right now".

See more on the Unreal Tournament website.

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

Tags: Native Linux, Epic Games, FPS, Free Game, Retro | Apps: Unreal Tournament (1999)

12 Likes

About the author - Liam Dawe

I am the owner of GamingOnLinux. After discovering Linux back in the days of Mandrake in 2003, I constantly checked on the progress of Linux until Ubuntu appeared on the scene and it helped me to really love it. You can reach me easily by emailing GamingOnLinux directly.
See more from me

Some you may have missed, popular articles from the last month:

Steam Desktop and Steam Deck update fixes lots of bugs for Game Recording, Remote Play, ROG Ally X

Mesa 24.2.7 out now and Mesa 24.3 may come sooner than expected

Check out Miniatures, a short mixture of strange tales

Half-Life 2 free to keep until November 18th, Episodes One & Two now included with a huge update

6 comments

Chrisznix 7 hours ago

Link

View PC info

Ooooh, a warm wave of nostalgia hitting hard. We somehow got hands on the beta, and we met with our clunky towers, coaxial 10BaseT-Cables, cold pizza and granular tea. There was always one computer where the network would not work, but it was so much fun playing this. I just found a video of the old theme song on youtube. Do i try it again just to find out how bad my aim is now?

Last edited by Chrisznix on 11 December 2024 at 12:55 pm UTC

5 Likes, Who?

Leahi84 5 hours ago

Link

View PC info

Hopefully there will be a something like this for Unreal Tournament 2004 (My favorite) at some point. Unreal Tournament 3 however, I'm not sure if I'd care or not because It was just okay and a disappointment following UT2k4. I don't think it sold very well either.

Last edited by Leahi84 on 11 December 2024 at 2:25 pm UTC

0 Likes

Eike 5 hours ago

Link

View PC info

Supporter Plus

Quoting: ChrisznixOoooh, a warm wave of nostalgia hitting hard. We somehow got hands on the beta, and we met with our clunky towers, coaxial 10BaseT-Cables, cold pizza and granular tea. There was always one computer where the network would not work, but it was so much fun playing this. I just found a video of the old theme song on youtube. Do i try it again just to find out how bad my aim is now?

Play against the old friends - they share the problem. ;)

5 Likes, Who?

Thetargos 5 hours ago

Link

View PC info

Just installed them (Unreal Gold, UT99 & UT2K4) on my Steam Deck just for kicks. Man! The nostalgia as I saw Nali Castle and Liandri fly bys! Steam Input works wonders! Next goal: to attempt to run them natively, with the new OpenGL renderer (which, on the Deck, has text artifacts, like MSAA used to produce on bitmap text, in the menus).

I wonder if you could run an ad-hoc LAN hosted listening server with some other Deck users, a la Nintendo DS ad-hoc connections...

0 Likes

Liam Dawe 5 hours ago

Link

View PC info

Admin

Updated with message from Epic.

2 Likes, Who?

a0kami 1 hour ago

Link

View PC info

what epic has done to unreal games is disheartening, had a blast like all nerds my age on ut2k4, but never manage to get as much fun on ut3, now about the joke that is the "ut" reboot which was secretly dusted off and put on the shoulders of the community to make everything, that in favour of paragon which got dropped as well, in turn in favour of fortnite. I get it, alright, it's hard making both a fully fledge top notch engine and games, sure, I get it, but you can't just tell people you love linux and promise the moon and leave them hanging in the water to end up insulting them few years later, this is not how this should work
in the other words, thanks to the community for the free efforts, they deserve it, actually they deserve more, respect first of

I'll keep waiting for their competitors to figure out server side anti-cheat, make peace with linux user base and cook the next best fps mechanics, epic has forever lost me

0 Likes

While you're here, please consider supporting GamingOnLinux on:

Reward Tiers: Patreon. Plain Donations:

PayPal.

This ensures all of our main content remains totally free for everyone! Patreon supporters can also remove all adverts and sponsors! Supporting us helps bring good, fresh content. Without your continued support, we simply could not continue!

You can find even more ways to support us on this dedicated page any time. If you already are, thank you!