The Graphics Engine Merry-Go-Round
If you can’t build them, sign a license for them. That’s what Electronic Arts did to Epic’s excellent, and recently in-demand, Unreal Engine 3. This puts EA as just one of the companies licensing the graphics engine for new games slated for the next gen consoles, PS3 and Xbox 360. It plans to use the engine for mostly action games like the latest Medal of Honor: Airborne and an upcoming FPS named Dead Space.
What made the EA deal a bit more notable is that the company also bought, last 2004, Criterion. It’s known for its Renderware graphics engine which was used for nearly 25 percent of all games for the ps2“>PS2 and Xbox. The deal? A cool $48M. We guess EA was waiting for a line of licensees that never came. But was it ever profitable for both companies? The Burnout games did pretty well, Black fell a bit short but at least gave them a chance for a sequel.
As for the present, Epic is on a running on a high thanks to its Unreal Engine 3. No other graphics engine company comes close to what it can offer. In the past, with its older Unreal Engines, it was basically stuck on the PC. In the foreseeable future, Unreal Engine 3 graphics will be the norm.
So gear up for better graphics here on!
Via CNN
If you can’t build them, sign a license for them. That’s what Electronic Arts did to Epic’s excellent, and recently in-demand, Unreal Engine 3. This puts EA as just one of the companies licensing the graphics engine for new games slated for the next gen consoles, PS3 and Xbox 360. It plans to use the engine for mostly action games like the latest Medal of Honor: Airborne and an upcoming FPS named Dead Space.
What made the EA deal a bit more notable is that the company also bought, last 2004, Criterion. It’s known for its Renderware graphics engine which was used for nearly 25 percent of all games for the ps2“>PS2 and Xbox. The deal? A cool $48M. We guess EA was waiting for a line of licensees that never came. But was it ever profitable for both companies? The Burnout games did pretty well, Black fell a bit short but at least gave them a chance for a sequel.
As for the present, Epic is on a running on a high thanks to its Unreal Engine 3. No other graphics engine company comes close to what it can offer. In the past, with its older Unreal Engines, it was basically stuck on the PC. In the foreseeable future, Unreal Engine 3 graphics will be the norm.
So gear up for better graphics here on!
Via CNN
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