 The game was announced by Epic in a Twitch livestream on May 8.During the livestream, senior programmer and project lead Steve Polge said that there had been demand for a reboot of the "Unreal Tournament" and that the release of the Unreal Engine 4, made this the ideal time to do so.He said, "For years, we've wanted to reboot Unreal Tournament, but we knew we had to do it in concert with developers and the mod community, and in an environment that sets them up with the proper tools to make it happen.