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UT3 has sold more than you think. Or maybe it hasn’t. Maybe we’re just naive.

“Factoring in the launch of the PS3 version in North America on the 11th December, Midway has already shipped over 1.2 million units of this fantastic FPS,” Midway said in a press release today.

The PlayStation 3 version of Epic’s shooter is out in Europe on Friday. Tom at Eurogamer gave it 9/10, which should be good enough to buy it, we reckon. See if you can help get it to the 2 million mark.

Still no mention of the Xbox 360 date. Full press release after the link.

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So says this. Midway’s now confirmed that the PS3 version of UT3 will hit Europe on February 22. The PC SKU shipped last November. There’s still no announcement on the Xbox 360 version, although Epic boss Mark Rein suggested that we should hear something soon last week. Considering the studio has the second largest stand at GDC, we’d say it was reasonable to expect new details this month.

Epic boss Mark Rein has said in an interview that user-generated mods for the Xbox 360 version of Unreal Tournament 3 – which still has no release date – is still subject to Microsoft approval. PS3 users have been enjoying the feature since the game released for the console last Christmas.

“Not yet but we’re hopeful,” he said, when asked if Epic was closer to resolving the issue. “Microsoft hasn’t said ‘no’ yet, but then they haven’t said ‘yes’ either. We need them to say ‘yes,’ and we need them to do it soon.”

Asked whether or not he thought the problem was that Microsoft didn’t want to “lose control” of Xbox Live over the issue, Rein said, “Well, yeah and we don’t fault them for that. They’ve got a closed system where everything’s checked, users know the quality of everything they download, and you know it won’t crash your machine. User generated content – well, it can be dangerous, you could theoretically download a mod that uses too much memory and crashes your machine.”

A release date of the shooter’s Xbox 360 version is expected soon.