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Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. has announced a partnership with Epic Games, giving SCEI sublicensing rights of Unreal Engine 3. An evaluation version of Unreal Engine 3 will now be available to the PlayStation 3 developer community, with support offered by Sony.
Unreal Engine 3 includes a programmable shaders tool, physics engine, and GUI based physics attribution tool. Other tools include movie scene development, and animation and particle animation tools. The benefit of using the engine is that developers will be able to create content of a high level without needing any specialist programming skills.
“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.“
“We’re very excited to be able to work closely with SCEI to provide our complete end-to-end solution to PS3 developers,” said Tim Sweeney, CEO, Epic Games. “Now, every PS3 developer will be able to try out Unreal Engine 3 and be productive on their very first day of PS3 development.“
Epic’s partnership with Sony could see the Unreal Engine 3 become the development tool of choice for the PlayStation 3. Microsoft have already done a deal to use the Unreal Engine 3 in a number of first party Xbox 360 games and the engine seems to be the engine of choice for next-gen game development. Epic’s Gears of War was revealed at E3 and is one of the most visually spectacular games seen for the 360.
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