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SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT ENTERS INTO STRATEGIC
LICENSING AGREEMENT WITH EPIC GAMES
Unreal Engine 3 Evaluation To Become Available With Software Development Kit for PS3
Tokyo, July 21, 2005 - Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) announced today that it
had entered into a strategic licensing agreement with Epic Games, a games engine developer
and based in North Carolina, U.S.A., effective July 20, 2005. Through this agreement, SCEI
obtains sublicensing rights of Unreal Engine 3, a complete games development framework
developed by Epic Games.
Unreal Engine 3 framework includes a programmable shaders tool, physics engine,
and GUI based physics attribution tool, along with various other tools, such as scenario
development, movie scene development, animation and particle animation tools. The most
significant among these engines and tools are the programmable shaders. By effectively using
this technology, content creators will be able to reproduce photo-realistic images without going
through a complicated calculation process. A wealth of tools contained in the Unreal Engine 3
framework will enable developers to create content to a certain level without requiring
specialist programming skills. An evaluation version of the Unreal Engine 3 will now become
available for the PLAYSTATION?3 developer community…