Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) announced today that it has entered into a licensing agreement with Epic Games, the developers behind the Unreal Tournament franchise.
The agreement entitles Sony to sublicense Unreal Engine 3, the software framework behind Epic's games, to development studios working on titles for the upcoming PS3 console.
"We're very happy to have a strategic licensing agreement with Epic Games." said Masa Chatani, corporate executive and CTO, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. "The power of Unreal Engine 3 demonstrated at E3 was so highly received. By providing the outstanding content development technology of Unreal Engine 3 for PS3 developer community, we believe that many high quality content maximizing the power of PS3 will become available. "
The agreement entitles Sony to provide an evaluation version of
Unreal Engine in the PS3 Software Development Kit and provide direct support for the use of the engine on it's platform. It puts Sony alongside Microsoft, who entered a license agreement with Epic back in March.
We at I.T. Vibe are encouraged by the weight being thrown into backing the future console by both major parties. Using proven MiddleWare technology will allow developers to spend more time on the content of their game rather than the code behind the scenes, hopefully the developers wont disappoint!
|
|
Reader Comments: 0
