Earlier this month we heard from Epic VP Mark Rein that they were still in discussions with Microsoft to get Unreal Tournament 3 mods up and running on their Xbox Live service. Unfortunately for them and ultimately us, no progress on this has been made at all, which continues to leave us with no firm release date on the Xbox 360 build of UT3.

With all of the Xbox Live announcements made by Microsoft at this year's GDC, this decision to not allow mods come across as quite bizarre. To that end, Rein did point out that the infrastructure of Xbox Live is different from what they require.

On the other side of the fence, Rein commented that the PS3 mod system is far from perfect and that users can expect improvements in the near future.