Yes, that's right. You can now download UE3 and make (obviously) non-commercial games with it for free.

damn 8 gigs of ram and 64bit windows recommended?

That comes with the territory of this sort of thing.

UT sucked horribly, granted, but at least we got to use the toolkit, good to hear it's free for everyone now.

Also Unreal 3.1 engine?

god, 8gb? forced 64bit, sounds unpolished.

No, for this type of development environment.... they are just making it so people who DO try it out dont instantly get discouraged/complain about how slow it runs.

I am rather suprised they completely opened up the engine to making free stand-alone mods though. Leaves me to wonder if this should be taken as a measure of success, and an effort to ensure new generations of aspiring devs learn on their tools to make all their licensees who will be hiring them someday happy, or an act of desperation to attract new talent to the platform.

Either way, Unreal is a wonderfull engine - quite simply the best , most documented and complete engine for do homebrew games and mods. Yes, the engine is not flawless but its still damn good all thinsg considered.

Personally, you will find me on DA:O toolset though once its available. Though DA:O of course will be limited to modding for people who own DA:O and not totally open like Unreal.

Cool deal for anyone that just wants to fiddle around with Unreal, interesting deal for indie developers. It's nice they don't have to worry about licensing an engine but 25% is A LOT.

Wow, that's gre.........I need a new computer T_T

Xoj said: god, 8gb? forced 64bit, sounds unpolished.

you have zero idea then. its completely refined. there is no game engine now-a-days that doesnt need 64bit for development purposes. While you code in 32bit, if you want, the power beind 64bit apps allows a more effective floor to create animations, graphics, etc. Why do you think a lot of developer PCs cost serveral thousand dollars?