Epic and EA Announce Unreal(R) Engine 3 Adopted for Select Next-Gen Titles

[Trotter]

From Yahoo! Finance:

State of the Art Engine to Be Used Alongside EA's Proprietary Tools & Technology Library

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 18, 2006--Epic Games and Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS - News) today announced that they have entered into a license agreement for EA to adopt the Unreal® Engine 3 for use in several next-generation titles that are currently under development. With the largest studio operation in the world, EA employs a variety of engines, tools and technologies to best serve the needs of each game and development team.

Unreal Engine 3 is a vast array of core technologies, content creation tools, and support infrastructure used for developing next-generation console and PC games. The Unreal Engine has been designed to ease content creation and programming, with the goal of putting as much power as possible in the hands of artists with minimal programmer assistance; and to give programmers a highly modular and extensive framework for building, testing, and shipping games in a wide range of genres.

Paul Lee, president of EA studios commented, "At EA, we give our development teams the tools they need to make great games. We license cutting edge tools like the Unreal Engine 3 and combine them with our own systems to create state-of-the-art development technology."

"We're obviously thrilled to license Unreal Engine 3 to EA, the world leader in our industry," said Mark Rein, Vice President, Epic Games, Inc. "They have extremely talented development teams, and we're excited to see how they apply our technology to their high profile game projects."

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[Ridlyn]

Wait is the saying EA is buying the rights to the unreal 3 engine, i hope not, cus i dont want them to screw it up.

Or is EA just saying there gonna use the unreal 3 engine, if so thats awesome.

 

[baronvongogo]

I think its just them using the unreal engine.

 

[The General]

Yeah they are just using it, kinda like how America's Army uses the UT2k4 engine, or how Prey uses the Doom 3 engine.

Which is a good thing for EA, because they'll have a solid engine with good graphics that they can use on all three next-gen consoles and current AND next-gen graphics cards easily. (Thank you OpenGL! )

 

[Ridlyn]

Good that means that they have a lees of a chance of screwing things up, with bugs.