Epic Games is officially cool with the Internet Archive preserving early Unreal games
Epic Games is officially cool with the Internet Archive preserving early Unreal games
The Unreal series may have been shelved years ago, but Epic is letting its first two installments live on through the Internet Archive.
Thats because Epic didnt make the games, only ever licensed them.
Digital Extreme did the actual work.
I'm not sure what your claim is based on. Epic members including Tim Sweeney and Cliff Bleszinski are among those credited for programming and designing them.
Also, if you're the copyright holder, no amount of contract work would take away from that, so you'd still have every right to not allow your IP to be used.
This is great news! I had to use Internet Archive to download Unreal Tournament 1999 as i lost the disk ages ago and still play online to this day. Epic shut down the UT99 master server browser a year ago, but everyone is playing it using the community patches anyways.
Links for those who wanna play UT99:
https://archive.org/details/unreal-tournament-complete
https://github.com/OldUnreal/UnrealTournamentPatches/releases/tag/v469d
Wow UT99 is still going. I might have to take a look at that again. It's been years.
It looks like the reviews are full of harmful links likely containing malware. Not sure about the main file.
Thank you Tim Epic
Easy goodwill. Good call.