Mark Rein, een administrator van het Epic Games Forum, heeft dit eerder vandaag aangekondigd. Rein verteld dat een formele aankondiging volgende week zou moeten komen en dat de game de winkels in Amerika zal bereiken op 11 december. Epic werkt nog steeds aan de localisatie voor de PAL-terratoria, het is daarom nog onbekend wanneer de game in Europa uitgebracht zal worden.

Het bericht van Mark Rein op het forum van Epic Games:

"Folks,

The PlayStation 3 version of Unreal Tournament 3 has gone gold! We got news last night that Unreal Tournament 3 has been approved by SCEA and has been released to North American manufacturing.

Midway has started talking to retailers to figure out exact timing and they will have a formal announcement early next week when everyone is back from the Thanksgiving holiday. My guess is that Midway will start shipping the title to North American retailers on Monday December 10th and it could show up in stores as early as December 11th but more likely toward the middle of that week.

I think PS3 owners are going to really enjoy UT3 this holiday so make sure you get it on your shopping list!

For PAL territories, specifically UK and Europe, we have a few localization-related tasks to complete and then we should be starting the certification process pretty soon. My best guess is early next year (January or February) for the game to ship over there."