Sony’s PhyreEngine coming to PSP

Sony Computer Entertainment has announced that its free to use, cross platform PhyreEngine adopted by a number of studios and used in PSN titles is going to be available to the PSP platform this spring.

Sony Computer Entertainment has announced that its free to use, cross platform PhyreEngine adopted by a number of studios and used in PSN titles is going to be available to the PSP platform this spring.

According to the press release sent by Sony, “PhyreEngine is an advanced graphics rendering engine provided as source code and tools to PlayStation 3 game developers, publishers and Tools & Middleware licensees, and used in a number of titles released on the PlayStation Store and Blu-ray Disc. PhyreEngine for the PSP system will enable game franchises to be efficiently developed to make use of the strengths of PSP platform.”

Used in games like Sidhe Interactive’s GripShift, thatgamecompany’s Flower and flOw, and Codemasters DiRT among others, Sony is set to demonstrate PhyreEngine for the PSP along with a demo of Tunnel Shooter, a game using one of PhyreEngine’s game templates at this week’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.