Version 3 of the Jailbreak mod for Unreal Tournament has been released. There are several new features though one being touted specifically is the ability to form human ladders. Hm, yeah.

The Infogrames Unreal 2 forums have a post from Tim Sweeney, who talks about the Unreal game name changes as Gamespot reported on Friday (story). It seems that the name Unreal Episode 2 is not official quite yet, so right now the game is still called Unreal 2. Unreal Tournament 2003 is the new name for Unreal Tournament 2. However, the idea of releasing a new UT every year is just that, an idea. Here's more about that possibility

The next-generation Unreal engine's network code and file formats are stable enough that we could potentially ship UT(year x) and include the maps from UT(year x-1) and maintain backwards compatibility with existing servers. This obviously couldn't go on forever, but could assure a lifetime similar to UT. Remember, in over 2 years of UT, we only broke network compatibility once.
Anyway, ongoing Unreal Tournament releases aren't an actual plan, just an idea we've been tossing around.

Thanks Blues News.

The Strike Force Center website has been updated, offering a map pack for version 1.75 of the Strike Force Unreal Tournament mod. The map pack adds nine new levels. Also on the site is a 5.7mb movie showing off the mod in action, for if you aren't sure if you want to download this 110mb mod.

HomeLAN Fed has interviewed Laurent Delayen of the Tactical Ops team. This is that Unreal Tournament mod heading for retail. JCal asks about the improvements over the mod version and why they decided to do a retail version.

A new version of the Unreal Tournament mod Strike Force, has been released. They say version 1.75 is redesigned for "more action and a faster overall game play experience". Version 1.75 is a 110mb full download.

HomeLAN Fed has posted an interview with David Münnich, who is working on Operation Na Pali. This an upcoming single player mod for Unreal Tournament.

PC.IGN has conducted a Tactical Ops interview. They ask Laurent Delayen of Kamehan Studios and Rafael Currulla of Infogrames about this Unreal Tournament mod which is heading to stores.

A new version of the Weapons Factory mod for Unreal Tournament has been released. There are quite a few changes so I'm sure you will want to download this if you're into WF.

Gamespot has posted their own Tactical Ops: Assault on Terror interview, talking to Rafael Curulla about the Unreal Tournament mod which is gonna hit stores. Some new screenshots are included.

Another mod is being released as a retail game. The Unreal Tournament mod Tactical Ops is the latest, according to Gamespy Daily. Previous mods gone retail include Counter-Strike and Gunman Chronicles. Gamespy Daily has posted an interview with Infogrames producer Rafael Curulla. Infogrames will be publishing the product.

GameSpyDaily: Why did Infogrames decide to pursue Tactical Ops for commercial release?

Rafael: Infogrames noticed the developers of Tactical Ops several months ago. We were pretty amazed by the work they had already completed, the changes they had implemented to improve their game and the way they handled the Unreal engine. We decided to pursue a commercial relationship because we saw a lot of potential in this game as a stand-alone experience. ...

Beta 5 of the NeoCairo mod for Unreal Tournament has been released. The 92mb download offers several new weapons, new mechs and aircrafts to control, twenty new maps and a whole lot of other new features.

A new version of Tactical Ops for Unreal Tournament has been released, bringing this mod up to 2.2.0. There is a patch from version 2.1.x (25mb) and a full download (115mb). A list of features can be found here.

Computer and Video Games continues the pushing the envelope articles, this time Epic's Steve Polge gets to answer questions about AI in games.

StrikeForce v1.70 for Unreal Tournament has been released, you can read the details and grab the patch over at the official website.

Version 1.65 of the Unreal Tournament Strike Force has been released. The newest version has several new features, weapons and 7 new maps. It's a 57mb upgrade, you will need Strike Force 1.60 installed to play.

# Weapons
- Widow Maker, Steyr Aug, M203, Desert Eagle, Smoke Nades and HKG36 non-scoped added
- Weapons specs & position rebalanced
- Sniper rifles tweaked so they don't fire while crawling
- New sounds for smoke grenade and frag grenade
- Improved grenade and smoke grenade throwing code
- Made muzzle flashes for each weapon and added them all [ ... ]
# Misc features
- New anti-cheat code
- Dual primary option which allows 2 primary weapons + 2 secondary weapons (server side)
- New knife animations for third person knife attacks
- Turned hat around on terrorist models
- Added the new night vision goggles [ ... ]

Marathon|Rampancy for UT has been released this morning. A mod for Unreal Tournament with the simple goal of taking of the world. Sounds reasonable enough.

HomeLAN has a UT: Infiltration interview you can check out this morning. It's that hip Unreal Tournament mod that is racing up the charts and wowing all the ladies.

Tuncer Deniz of Inside Mac Games let us know that Mac Game Files is hosting the Unreal Tournament X patch. The 1.66mb patch adds OS X support to the game.

The Infiltration website has been updated with screenshots from the new FN Minimi machine gun. The update also briefly discusses new game modes for this Unreal Tournament mod. Thanks Stomped.

A new version of the Unreal Tournament Infiltration has been released. Details on new features can be found here. There's also six new maps and 3 reworked ones.