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CHAT WITH SPONSORS OF THE “NVIDIA $1,000,000 MAKE SOMETHING UNREAL” CONTEST

MONDAY, JUNE 30TH AT 2PM (PST)

John the sponsors of the “NVIDIA $1,000,000 Make Something Unreal” contest to discuss and ask questions about the contest with one of the largest overall prize purses in the video game industry.  This contest rewards and publicly recognizes talented individuals from around the world who can create the ultimate game and entertainment mods based on the best-selling Unreal Tournament 2003 and upcoming Unreal Tournament 2004.

Digital Extremes, co-creators of the award-winning Unreal® game franchise, along with NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), Atari, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATAR), AMD, and Alias|Wavefront have backed the contest prizes worth US $400,000; $300,000 worth of high-end PCs featuring the combined processing power of NVIDIA’s GeForce? FX graphics, the NVIDIA nForce?2 platform and AMD Athlon processors; more than $30,000 worth of Maya® Software; and a Unreal Tournament commercial licence (value of $350,000).  Entries can be made in 13 categories, including “Best Mod,” “Best Character,” “Best Use of 3D Sound,” “Best Real-Time Non-Interactive Movie (also known as Machinima),” and many more.

Participants of the IRC Chat will include:

 
Mark Rein (Epic Games)

Tim Sweeney (Epic Games)

Steve Polge (Epic Games)

Geoff Foulds (Alias/Wavefront)

Jason Busby (creator of the Mastering Unreal web site www.masteringunreal.com 

Kyle Peschel (moderator -- Atari Games)

 
Plus, representatives from the other sponsors.
 

How to Join the IRC Chat for “NVIDIA $1,000,000 Make Something Unreal” contest

To join:
 

-      Go to irc.enterthegame.com

-      The chat will take place in #ut2003

 
You will then be able to type in your questions about the “NVIDIA $1,000,000 Make Something Unreal” contest and your questions will be answered in real-time.