Midway's Gamers' Day in Las Vegas provided a lot of information and excitement, but none more so than the name change of Unreal Tournament 2007 to Unreal Tournament III.

Epic's VP Mark Rein explained the name change as paying tribute to the game's history -- UTIII is the third generation of the Unreal Tournament franchise and it uses the third generation of the Unreal engine technology.

For more on Unreal Tournament III, check out a minute of gameplay footage of this hotly anticipated shooter on Gamers Hell