By Lawrence Casiraya
INQUIRER.net

SHANGHAI, China–Intel and Epic Games have announced a contest for aspiring gaming developers to create modifications or “mods” for the PC version of Unreal Tournament 3.

Developers can create mods in various categories including environments, characters, weapons, vehicles and game play.

The “Make Something Unreal” contest carries a $1 million prize, including an Unreal Engine 3 license as grand prize.

Other prizes include Intel software development products and Velocity Micro PCs, using Intel’s Dual Socket Extreme Desktop platform running on Core 2 Extreme quad-core processors.

Judging will begin this June and grand prizes will be awarded next year. Contest mechanics can be found at www.makesomethingunreal.com