Epic to Sponsor Unreal University

PepsiProgrammer writes "Epic and Nvidia are teaming up to create the first annual Unreal University, a two-day tutorial covering techniques for creating mods for the Unreal Tournament 2004 game engine. It'll be held at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, on November 8th and 9th, 2003." With this event, the million-dollar Make Something Unreal contest, and the free Unreal Technology video tutorials, looks like Epic is pushing their engine heavily as weapon of choice for FPS modders.

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[Dreadlord]

UT2K3 was released last year, I got a copy back then, the game was fun to play for a while, then it became a bit boring, so I started to look for mods, and I found some interesting mods, but none kept me playing for a long time.
Later, when Epic started to promote the UT2K3 engine for mods (Something Unreal contest, releasing the engine for free ...) I noticed a increased number of mods, I also noticed that the quality got higher, actually, UT2K3 is back to life for me now, one of my favorite mods is FaceOff UT2003, it has nothing to do with UT2K3 fancy SiFi setting, it's a real world combat game, something like TacOps or CS.
Another great mod is Deathball (created by TeamVortex who made the greatest UT mod ever, Operation Napali), this mod improves UT2K3's Bombing Run mode.
So I guess that Epic's new strategy along with the fact that UT2K3 is pretty new (not like the aged HL engine) makes UT2K3 a heaven for modders.