sinx, the MapMixer surgeon, has done it again. In the face of adversity, sinx has been able to rise above all the odds and deliver us yet another version of the legendary award winning UT map mixing software. Dedicated to releasing nothing short of the best quality UT Tool possible, MapMixer for UT3 is a must have mutator that will not disappoint.

Get the Alpha version 3.00 (920k) of MapMixer for UT3 right here!

MapMixer 3 for UT3 is still in development, however Alpha Version 3 has now been made publicly available for download and evaluation.

Although there is currently no documentation, those familiar with MapMixer for UT2K3 and UT2K4 shouldn't have a problem, however there is some important information in the enclosed ReadMe file and everyone is *strongly* encouraged to read it!

UT3 has provided numerous serious challenges in the development of MapMixer 3 and thus has taken a little longer to get off the ground.  The whole mod has been completely re-written from scratch and almost every feature has been re-worked and expanded upon in some form, to make it even more flexible.  While the core concepts of MapMixer remain, it's not just a simple port of version 2 for UT2K4.

Everyone is encouraged to give the alpha version a go, as it appears quite stable considering it is a work in progress.  Feel free to leave feedback or suggestions at the MapMixer forum.

MapMixer website: http://mapmixer.oceaniaut.com

An Unreal Tournament 3 'Old School' Level Design Contest being sponsored by Epic Games has officially commenced and is offering some handy prizes.

To enter, contestants must submit a playable Deathmatch UT3 map using ONLY the assets included with UT3; They'll need to create a thread in the UT3 Old School Contest forum on 3D Buzz; And final entries must be submitted by 11:59:59 PM CST on June 30, 2008.

Judges will consider entries based on Artistic and Architectural Style; Originality; Flow and Gameplay; Performance; And the quality of Work In Progress Update Posts.....

The newly formed Association of Gaming Professionals (AGP) have recently announced their first tour, focusing specifically on First-Person-Shooter 1v1 games. Beginning in 2009, the AGP Tour™ will be hosting four international tournaments, called the AGP Majors. Held every three months, each Major will feature one FPS 1v1 game. Following each Major, a new game season will begin based on another 1v1 FPS title. The games chosen for the 2009 seasons are as follows (in no particular order):
Quake 4
Quake 3 or potentially Quake Live
Warsow
Unreal Tournament 3

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Faust has again released a new version of UTcomp fixing alot of bugs.

All information can be seen on the unreal north website:

http://www.unrealnorth.com/news.php?action=view&id=1640

Shout out to h00dz

More bug fixes and additions!

Faust again has released a new version of UTComp for UT3 with various bug fixes and extra features added.
Unfortunatly no net code just yet, but its in the pipeworks.

Download: http://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=1536318

Dodge Russian Mirror: http://www.playground.ru/files/11032/

Local forum regular, or should I say virtuoso, 'Subz' recently contacted me and requested that I participate in a Radio Interview which focused on OceaniaUT.com.

You see there's more than meets the eye with Subz, the dude is actually studying Journalism and works part time as a Radio Producer based out of Bathurst.

Last week he advised me that the show he represents titled 'Homepage', which takes a look at all the best websites and latest IT technology, wanted to do an interview that mainly revolved around the OceaniaUT community. He also asked OUT.com forum member 'Lukeb' if he was up to it. So together we teleported into Bathurst's 2MCE Radio Station for the interview and came up with the following Podcast.

The actual interview itself was broadcasted live via the community broadcasting sector on Subz's show 'Homepage' (3pm every Monday for Subz groupies & fanboiz) and to a potential audience of 3 million peeps. Lukeb and I are now celeb's so we're expecting to receive thousands of fan mail letters very shortly. :P

Cheers Subz & Good luck with Uni, Journalism, Radio & anything else you decide to get involved with dude! ;)

Download/Stream the podcast here (6MB - 6.27mins)

April Fools: Melbourne Australia - Epic Games has today announced the aquisition of leading Australian/New Zealand Unreal Games Community 'OceaniaUT.com'.

In a transaction that's believed to involve a six figure sum, OceaniaUT founder 'Fulton Zylstra' stated that it was great to see OceaniaUT come from being just another game site, to a potential leading player in the Aus/Nz Gaming Community and was extremely pleased by the offer from Epic Games. 

'With Epic at the helm of OceaniaUT, we will now be able to expand our resources and opportunities far beyond the Unreal Tournament series games' said Fulton.

With the acquisition from Epic likely to be finalised in the coming weeks, Fulton also suggested that full time positions as Administrators for the new community are likely to become avaliable. Work on a new 'OceaniaUnreal' website is also expected to commence in the not so distant future. OceaniaUnreal will cover the Asia/Pacific region which includes, Australia, New Zealand, Eastern Asia & India.

About Epic Games : Epic Games Inc., based in Raleigh , NC and established in 1991, is a developer of cutting-edge computer and video games. The company is best known as the creator of hit PC 3D action games Unreal and Unreal Tournament , both award-winning blockbuster hits having each sold more than one million copies. Epic is also responsible for the Unreal Engine, which is the underlying technology for a wide range of games including, 2002 Console Game of the Year winner, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell ™ from Ubi Soft; PC Gamer’s 2000 Game of the Year, Deus Ex from Ion Storm/Eidos; America’s Army: Operations , from the United States Army, and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (PC) from Electronic Arts. Additional information can be obtained through Epic's Web site at www.epicgames.com .

Stay tuned for a further update later today.

Epic has just released their first Unreal Tournament 3 Bonus Pack weighing in at 160MB. The pack consists of 3 maps (including two remakes) DM-Morbias, CTF-Facing Worlds and CTF-Searchlight. PS3 users can also download the pack via the PlayStation Network.

Download from BU