Unreal Engine 3, one of the industries most used third-party game engine has now gone FREE.

This is major news, all besides the obvious “mods made on the engine can now be redistributed without the original UT3 game”. All new companies have an excelent engine on which to forge their game and since all the deal requires is that Epic Games get 25% off after the first 5000$ made by a game, it all comes down cheaper then buying the license first hand. Really this is great news for indie developers world-wide and we’ll see a huge tide of great games and mods coming out of apparently nowhere. Props.

Edit: More details here