“Hope you’ve been preserving nicely, however we nonetheless don’t have any new info to share right here,” Epic Video games know-how comms supervisor Brian Sharon tells The Verge.
This was at all times a extremely bizarre scenario as a result of Epic’s itemizing for the ad-free, DLC-free, cross-platform Unreal Event 3 X was by no means added to Steam as its personal distinct sport. As a substitute, Epic seemingly overhauled its itemizing for the unique Unreal Event 3 (from 2007!) to replicate the brand new sport’s options as an alternative.
In December 2022, Epic wouldn’t even affirm or deny the existence of the sport and wouldn’t inform us if there’d been a mistake or a hack or a bug. However it did, nevertheless, add a line to that web page with what appeared like tacit affirmation: “This title is presently unavailable and might be out there sooner or later. Keep tuned!”
Perplexingly, that line nonetheless exists on the Unreal Event 3 web page as we speak. Does it imply that we should always nonetheless “keep tuned” for Unreal Event 3 X? Or keep tuned for the 2007 sport to return, not less than?
Maybe the corporate’s saving an announcement for this summer’s cavalcade of gaming events and plans to do all of it contemporary. Maybe it’s not a Steam title however fairly an Epic Video games Retailer unique. Or maybe it’s {dead}.
On December twenty fourth, the sport was examined as suitable with the Steam Deck, according to SteamDB records. I used to be considering it’d be enjoyable to host it at a Steam Deck LAN social gathering.