I plan to continue running the site and the forums indefinitely. When I took over BeyondUnreal, I told myself that I would keep the site running as long as I was capable of doing so. For the foreseeable future, the front page will struggle as the remaining BU team is small and the number of games to cover keeps rising exponentially. Our last news post was almost an entire year ago and we only had maybe a dozen posts in all of 2015. Even the concept of a "game forum" has begun to be an outdated form of engaging and communicating about our favorite games.ġ7 years ago it was a fantasy to try to share a video clip of a game you were playing.Īs most of our community is probably aware, this has left BeyondUnreal in a kind of odd place. Most independent sites have moved to Youtube and Twitch where readers and viewers tend to go for their game news today. The vast majority of video game community sites have been swallowed up by a few massive players. PlanetUnreal hasn't been updated since May 2011. To emphasize how the landscape has changed, Gamespy is gone having been through multiple owners and now essentially run as an archive of those many years of gaming coverage. When PlanetUnreal launched in 1999, it was one of a small cadre of Planet sites that joined the Gamespy network. These two games proved that the model could work and it did.Īlong with that, an amazing community formed to learn and play the game together. Today, more games than ever are sold as multiplayer games with a single player component as opposed to vice versa. Modern gaming owes a lot to UT and Quake 3. But neither of those games were sold using their multiplayer component as the primary focus of gaming. Sure, Unreal and Half Life had fairly simple to use multiplayer. But in 1999, games went from including multiplayer as an afterthought because it was complicated to configure and use to being a primary focus and the selling point of many games. It's not that multiplayer games didn't exist before 1999. 17 years ago, Unreal Tournament was unleashed on the world beginning a new age of multiplayer gaming. Today it is hard not to think of how the time has flown.
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