Midway Games announced a multi-year,
multi-product agreement with Epic Games to publish three new videogames based on the popular
Unreal franchise. The agreement marks Midway's entrance into the premium PC games sector
with a property that has sold more than seven million units worldwide and generated nearly
USD 200 million in revenue at retail since the introduction of Unreal Tournament in
1999.
Under terms of the agreement, Midway obtains worldwide publishing rights for
the three Unreal titles from Epic, including Unreal Championship 2, an Xbox exclusive title
scheduled to ship in 2005, and two future installments of Unreal Tournament on PC and
upcoming next generation consoles. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Only Korean PC rights were excluded from the deal.
Scheduled to arrive exclusively
for Xbox in February 2005, Unreal Championship 2 brings a whole new level of intensity to
the series as gamers are blessed with superhuman agility that arms them for battle against
deadly characters or readies them for hand-to-hand melee combat. Taking the battle online
and around the world, Unreal Championship 2 pits players against each other in an
eight-person Xbox Live! multiplayer challenge where only the strong survive. Built from the
ground up for the Xbox, Unreal Championship 2 features all new gameplay elements, including
a deep melee combat system that seamlessly blends in with the ranged weapon combat the
series is known for, a full story-driven single-player mode, dozens of all new maps, new
game modes and an arsenal of new
weaponry.
