Epic Games has announced that they are joining up with chip developer Intel to follow up the original “$1 Million Make Something Unreal Contest” with an all new competition.   Winnings exceed $1 million in value, and consist of one coveted Unreal Engine 3 license as a grand prize and other cash awards and prizes, including Intel Software Development Products and Velocity Micro PCs based on the Intel Dual Socket Extreme Desktop Platform with two Intel Core2 Extreme quad-core processors.  The 2008 “$1 Million Intel Make Something Unreal Contest” will be judged in four preliminary phases in June 2008 with the grand final prizes being awarded, in fall 2009.

To participate, aspiring game developers create modifications for the PC version of Unreal Tournament 3 in a wide range of categories including environments, characters, weapons, gameplay, tools, vehicles and more. The content created for this contest will be freely available to players of the PC version of Unreal Tournament 3 worldwide.