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 Thanks Blues: After a sprinkling of false rumors yesterday, a post to the
Infogrames, 
Inc. Forums by Epic's Mark Rein (thanks JP) has word that Unreal Tournament 
2003 has gone gold as of 5:00 AM EDT this morning, and the game is expected in stores 
by the end of the month. He describes the contents of the three CD distribution, 
which will include the game and its over 35 levels, tools including Maya Personal 
Learning Edition from Alias|Wavefront, The Karma Authoring Tool, a mod "starter 
kit," the game's Linux support (which is not mentioned in the packaging), including 
the client and the server. He also mentions plans for future related releases such 
as a stand-alone server which will not require ownership of the game, the UDE (Unreal 
Development Environment), a customized version of Gmax, and other cool features 
for a bonus pack. In
a later 
post (thanks
Unreality), 
Mark also lists the names of the 37 maps the game will ship with. 
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