Epic received’t say why it simply purged Unreal Tournament 3 X from Steam

“Hope you’ve been preserving properly, however we nonetheless don’t have any new data to share right here,” Epic Games expertise comms supervisor Brian Sharon tells The Verge.

This was all the time a extremely bizarre scenario as a result of Epic’s itemizing for the ad-free, DLC-free, cross-platform Unreal Tournament 3 X was by no means added to Steam as its personal distinct recreation. Instead, Epic seemingly overhauled its itemizing for the unique Unreal Tournament 3 (from 2007!) to mirror the brand new recreation’s options as a substitute.

In December 2022, Epic wouldn’t even verify or deny the existence of the sport and wouldn’t inform us if there’d been a mistake or a hack or a bug. But it did, nevertheless, add a line to that web page with what appeared like tacit affirmation: “This title is at the moment unavailable and will likely be accessible sooner or later. Stay tuned!”

Perplexingly, that line nonetheless exists on the Unreal Tournament 3 web page at this time. Does it imply that we must always nonetheless “keep tuned” for Unreal Tournament 3 X? Or keep tuned for the 2007 recreation to return, at the least?

Perhaps the corporate’s saving an announcement for this summer time’s cavalcade of gaming occasions and plans to do all of it recent. Perhaps it’s not a Steam title however relatively an Epic Games Store unique. Or maybe it’s useless.

On December twenty fourth, the sport was examined as suitable with the Steam Deck, in response to SteamDB data. I used to be pondering it’d be enjoyable to host it at a Steam Deck LAN get together.