EPIC GAMES AND NVIDIA KICK OFF "$1,000,000 NVIDIA MAKE SOMETHING UNREAL" CONTEST is a press release announcing an Nvidia sponsored contest which will reward people who make the best custom content for Unreal Tournament 2003 and 2004.

From June 2003 through Spring 2004, the "$1,000,000 NVIDIA Make Something Unreal" contest is broken into three phases, each offering a chance to win prizes. The first prize announcement will take place in Winter 2003. Grand prize winners will be announced at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) held in San Jose, CA, in March 2004.

In addition to cash prizes totaling US$500,000 and the ultimate prize of a commercial Unreal Game Engine license (valued at $350,000), contestants can compete for more than $300,000 worth of high-end PCs featuring the combined processing power of NVIDIA's GeForce FX graphics, the NVIDIA nForce2 platform and AMD Athlon processors, and more than $30,000 worth of Maya Software, the leading 3D modeling, animation and rendering software used in many high-end game and Hollywood production studios.

Prizes will be awarded in categories like best level, best model, best mutator, best vehicle, best use of Karma Physics and best non-FPS mod. More info can be found at www.makesomethingunreal.com.