Uber Entertainment has confirmed that it has licensed Epic’s Unreal Engine 3 for their upcoming title “Monday Night Combat”. The game is a class-based third person shooter that mixes combat and finishing moves with game-show esque challenges and rewards. Players can fight for cash, fame and endorsements in the career and online modes. Monday Night Combat is released later this year on the Xbox Live Arcade.

“The Unreal Engine has enabled us to get ‘Monday Night Combat’ into a playable and great-looking state faster than any other engine on the market could have. We’re thrilled to be working with it,” said Bob Berry, president and chief executive officer of Uber Entertainment.

“We’re really pleased to see ‘Monday Night Combat’ make great use of Unreal Engine 3′s capabilities for downloadable console games,” said Mark Rein, vice president of Epic Games. “Uber Entertainment has achieved a lot with the game’s development in a short period of time and we can’t wait to play it online.”