The future of Unreal Tournament will be revealed next week, according to Epic.
A tweet from Mark Rein, vice president and co-founder of Epic Games, reads: "I love #UnrealTournament - So excited for the comeback! More next week!" Rein confirmed the news again, saying "Yes UT coming back!" when a fan asked for clarification.
Paul Meegan, vice president of product development at Epic, followed Rein's tweet with information on when we'll know more: "UE4 Dev Community + Epic. The future of Unreal Tournament. Tune in to Twitch.tv/UnrealEngine Thursday at 2pm ET."
This news comes as quite a surprise, as just last month, Epic founder Tim Sweeney said “We’re not [planning on] shipping an Unreal Tournament game. We have a lot of nostalgia for the game but we’re actually not developing anything in the Unreal game universe at all at the moment."
The last game in the series, Unreal Tournament 3, released over six years ago on PC, PS3, and Xbox 360.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/05/02/epic-games-co-founder-teases-unreal-tournament-comeback
