Another rumored Unreal Tournament 2007 release date – for the 360

You have to love online retailers; they know how to make a writer’s blood pressure blip up half an inch. Especially when they “let slip” a potential release date for a game. And somehow, you have the feeling they’ll retract it later. Anyway, today’s victim: the Xbox 360 version of Midway Games‘ Unreal Tournament 2007. The perpetrator: The UK-based Play.com. And their crime: October 10, 2007.

It is October 1, 2007, right? We decided to check out EBGameStop – you know, that other release date leaker – and they don’t even have a marker for the 360 UT2k7. We don’t even recall hearing much about a 360 UT2k7, except for this little report that the 360 would get UT2k7, and that was way back in August. IGN says that “a possible Xbox 360 version has been considered but not actively developed”, but Wikipedia cites a 2006 E3 Next-Gen interview with Midway CEO David Zucker that mentions that the 360 will get UT2k7.

Heck, the only question is, is it October 1, 2007? Only a press release from Midway can answer this satisfactorily, but chances are getting a hard date right now from them is as unreal as it gets. Perhaps after the PC launch – and even that one comes with its own bag of rumors.

You have to love online retailers; they know how to make a writer’s blood pressure blip up half an inch. Especially when they “let slip” a potential release date for a game. And somehow, you have the feeling they’ll retract it later. Anyway, today’s victim: the Xbox 360 version of Midway Games‘ Unreal Tournament 2007. The perpetrator: The UK-based Play.com. And their crime: October 10, 2007.

It is October 1, 2007, right? We decided to check out EBGameStop – you know, that other release date leaker – and they don’t even have a marker for the 360 UT2k7. We don’t even recall hearing much about a 360 UT2k7, except for this little report that the 360 would get UT2k7, and that was way back in August. IGN says that “a possible Xbox 360 version has been considered but not actively developed”, but Wikipedia cites a 2006 E3 Next-Gen interview with Midway CEO David Zucker that mentions that the 360 will get UT2k7.

Heck, the only question is, is it October 1, 2007? Only a press release from Midway can answer this satisfactorily, but chances are getting a hard date right now from them is as unreal as it gets. Perhaps after the PC launch – and even that one comes with its own bag of rumors.