Midway has confirmed that the timed PS3 exclusive Unreal Tournament 3 has been delayed until 2008 due to technical issues with the Unreal Engine for the PS3.

The CEO of Midway has come out and cited technical issues with the Unreal Engine 3.0 as the reason that the company was forced to delay the upcoming PS3 timed-exclusive Unreal Tournament 3 as well as other big upcoming PS3 games such as Stranglehold and Area 51: Blacksite.

Those other two games were pushed back by 3 weeks while Stranglehold was still released on the Xbox 360 without any delay at all.