Buena Vista licenses Gamebryo for multiple next-gen titles

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“This toolset is a proven cross-platform technology that will allow our teams to fully leverage our intellectual properties and focus on our core competencies in developing for next-gen consoles such as the PLAYSTATION 3 and Xbox 360,” said Mark Meyers, Vice President of Internal Studios, Buena Vista Games. “Gamebryo gives BVG the flexibility and hands-on customer support we demand from new technology that will be used across multiple development teams — each of which uses a mix of different technologies to create games spanning a full range of genres.”

Aside from licensing Gamebryo, Buena Vista Games also engaged the help of Emergent’s Custom Engineering group. Both are gearing up for a collaboration on a range of upcoming development projects. There has been no official word yet on what those projects are or on what games will run on Emergent’s award-winning game engine, but we expect those games to be true representatives of the power of next-gen consoles.

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“This toolset is a proven cross-platform technology that will allow our teams to fully leverage our intellectual properties and focus on our core competencies in developing for next-gen consoles such as the PLAYSTATION 3 and Xbox 360,” said Mark Meyers, Vice President of Internal Studios, Buena Vista Games. “Gamebryo gives BVG the flexibility and hands-on customer support we demand from new technology that will be used across multiple development teams — each of which uses a mix of different technologies to create games spanning a full range of genres.”

Aside from licensing Gamebryo, Buena Vista Games also engaged the help of Emergent’s Custom Engineering group. Both are gearing up for a collaboration on a range of upcoming development projects. There has been no official word yet on what those projects are or on what games will run on Emergent’s award-winning game engine, but we expect those games to be true representatives of the power of next-gen consoles.