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Lots of exciting news for fans of the tech behind games as well as the final products. Check out the next generation of Epic’s ubiquitous Unreal Engine.

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Winners of the Train2Game and Epic Game Jam, a 48-hour event held the first weekend in November, have been selected, with the teams behind the three top iOS apps along with a fourth team to participate in Make Something Unreal Live.

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Epic Games has updated its Unreal Development Kit – UDK – to include iOS Facebook functionality and tools for creating more attractive foliage and landscapes, so there’s no excuse for ugly trees in your creations.

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Mac support has been added to the September release of Epic’s Unreal Development Kit, which is a precursor to Mac support in the commercial version of Unreal Engine 3. Other improvements have been added as well. You can view the release notes and download the newer version of UDK through the links.

Epic Games has released the August 2011 UDK beta, which is now available for download. The update includes a movie capture system, material functions, adaptive tessellation, and iCloud document saving for iOS. It also contains improvements to the Unreal Editor, including Unreal Matinee, Unreal Cascade, AnimSet Viewer, the material editor and more. You can get more update details through the notes. There is also a a video below which gives you an inside look at the update. UDK, the free version of Unreal Engine 3 has been installed 900,000 times.

While you’re looking over the updates to the kit, check out these cool projects from the Takenaka Corporation, as well as Q.U.B.E. and Desert Zombie: Last Stand for iOS.

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Epic Games has substantially raised the royalty threshold on its Unreal Developer Kit, granting financial breathing room to smaller and independent developers.

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Epic has released the updated January 2011 UDK beta, and the latest version includes PhysX support for iOS.

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Epic’s updated the Unreal Development Kit Beta with Steamworks and Scaleform interface support.

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Epic’s Mark Rein was on hand at GDC last week, chatting about Unreal Engine 3, some of the games created with it, and some of the winners from the Make Something Unreal contest.

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Epic has announced the winners of its Make Something Unreal contest, with the grand prize for the best mod created of UT3 using the Unreal Development Kit going to The Haunted by Michael Hegemann and The Haunted Team.

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Epic has announced that over 50,000 users worldwide have downloaded the Unreal Development Kit since its launch last week.

“We are very excited to see the uptake of UDK cross over the 50,000 mark in only one week, and we’re looking forward to seeing amazing games and applications come out of it,” said Epic VP Mark Rein.

“We’re also thrilled to finally be able to offer UDK free for schools and students so they can work with the same awesome Unreal Engine 3 tools used by many of the top game developers and publishers around the world.”

More through the press release below.

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Filefront’s carrying the just-released Unreal Development Kit. This is Unreal Engine 3 pretty much the same tools used to create, you know, games.

Up till now the only way you could get hold of this was by buying a PC copy of UT3 or Gears of War. No longer.

Here’s the installer. Get with the making stuff.

Full PR below the break.

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