Epic has released a new Unreal Tournament 2004 bonus pack, adding the Editor's Choice Edition content to owners of the original retail game. The bonus pack adds six new characters, three new vehicles (the Paladin, the Cicada, and the SPMA), and four new Onslaught maps to UT2004. Your game must be patched to 3323. We have some screenshots of the new content right here.

Epic sends along this about making your entry to the Make Something Unreal Contest eligible for the Educational category: "To be eligible for consideration students or faculty members will be asked to provide the name of their educational institution and the contact information for the school. Schools must verify that they will accept the computers and provide them for student use. For consideration in this category, the mods do not have to be school projects, but the students or faculty must be presently enrolled or employed by the institution". The person to contact is jeff@epicgames.com.

Vision Studios has released Strike Force for Unreal Tournament 2004, allowing you to try two maps from this military action game in TeamDM mode. Additional maps, weapons, etc will be released through patches in the coming weeks, but Vision Studios is holding back on most content for now, hoping to a land a contract with a publisher.

The guys at Epic send along the fourth Unreal Tournament 2004 patch, updating the game to version 3323. The new update offers various Onslaught gamemode related fixes, as well as updates to networking and general gameplay (check the entire change list here). As with previous updates, this patch is compatible with any older versions of the game.

The latest Make Something Unreal mod contest deadline was last night, and as a result a whole bunch of Unreal Tournament 2004 mods saw their first or updated release yesterday. We're working feverishly to add all the mods to FileShack, here's what we have so far (mod site link first, file link second).

Action Unreal Tournament - beta 0 release Air Buccaneers - version 1.0 release Alien Swarm - version 1.2 release Call To Arms - demo release ChaosUT2: Evolution - version 3.5 release Checkmate - version 1.0 release Damnation - version 1.0 release Deathball - version 2.2 release Eden Eclipse - demo 1 release EikoBattle - version 1.0 release MetaBall - version 1.00 release. Neosaka: The Forgotten - beta 1 release Robin Hood & The Kings Ransom - release 1 RoboStorm - version 1.0 release Shattered Oasis - version 2.50 release Troopers: Dawn of Destiny - version 4.0 release USkaarj: Battle for Earth - public alpha release Zionite War: Manifest Destiny - beta 1 release

On the official website and on FileShack you can find a trailer for Red Orchestra 3.0: Combined Arms, the latest version of the popular World War 2 mod for UT2004. Version 3.0 should be released August 27.

Epic Games sends along the third Unreal Tournament 2004 patch, updating the game to v3270. The update offers changes/fixes related to the Onslaught gamemode, general gameplay, networking, engine and mods among other things. As before this patch is compatible with the retail version and previous patches. Here are some of the network changes

- Fixed "weapon not firing" bug, caused by reliable bunches from client getting queued up on server under certain packet loss conditions. - Improved low net bandwith (modem) client net performance: [...] - Made super shock beams not bNetTemporary (so you always see your shots even w/ packet loss) - Improved server performance by removing some expensive (and never tripped) checks - Fixed network jitter at low game speeds (gamespeed mutator) - Speed hack checks enabled when flying redeemer - Colored names exploit fixed again - Fixed Web Response exploit - Fixed server crash exploit

Atari and Epic Games Announce Unreal Tournament 2004 - Editor's Choice Edition to Be Available This Fall is a new press release, announcing a new version of Unreal Tournament 2004 with additional content. It will retail later this year for $39.99. Here's what will be added vehicle wise

Three new vehicles are being added for Onslaught mode to help gamers tear up the countryside and bring their enemies to their knees. New battle machinery includes the Cicada, a two seat air vehicle; the Paladin, a deadly new tank that includes a player-oriented directional shield; and the Self Propelled Mobile Artillery (SPMA), a long-range artillery vehicle with a deployable hovering spotter camera.

Epic has added a Mod Author Support page to the Unreal Developer Network website, offering tutorials, mod tools and links for Unreal Tournament 2004 mod makers.

The official Unreal Tournament website has been updated with a list of finalists of the FPS and Gametype categories for Phase 3 of the NVIDIA $1,000,000 Make Something Unreal Contest, as well as a list of "Honorable Mentions".

The Frag.Ops team has released a new patch for their UT2004 mod, adding five new maps and fixing several bugs among other things. An update for NeoTokyo is availabe as well.

Epic sends along an updated Unreal Tournament 2004 patch, updating the game to version 3236. A Linux server/client patch has been released as well (amd64 and x86). The patch offers quite a few changes related to the Onslaught game mode, menus, networking, the editor and other areas of the game - you can find the full list of changes here.

Some Networking Related Fixes: - Fixed speedhack detection false positives - Fixed client-side game time getting screwed up - Improved jumping/dodging/etc. not getting lost when there's significant packet loss - Fixed Cheat protect to view most voicepacks as ok - Fixed *hopefully* the ServerBrowser locking packages and tripping cheat protection. - Make sure that mutators are properly reported to master server - Onslaught server performance improvements - Fixed "flying player" exploit. ...

A demo version of Unreal Fortress: Evolution has been released, allowing you to try out the Rocket Arena-like part of this UT2004 mod. We have a mirror on FileShack.

More Unreal Tournament 2004 mod releases, list courtesy of Beyond Unreal. There's a new Heroes of Exion, Duffers Golf, Domain 2049, Anomaly, Arrrgh!! and Excessive UT2004.

More Unreal Tournament 2004 mod releases to qualify for Phase 3 of the Make Something Unreal contest (or just because). There are new/first releases of UT2004 Troopers, Frag.Ops, Rocketeer, Unreal Demolition, Mutai and DeathBall. Thanks Beyond Unreal.