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Gamebryo's Next Gen Engine Now Supports Wii(TM)
| Source: Emergent Game Technologies
CALABASAS, CA--(Marketwire - September 12, 2007) - Emergent Game Technologies today announced
the Wii™ version of its highly acclaimed next generation games engine,
Gamebryo. Already powering many of the industry's leading console and PC
titles, Gamebryo is optimized for accelerated cross-platform development on
symmetric and asymmetric multiprocessor and single processor systems.
Designed to enable teams to focus on their games and not on integrating
complicated or poorly documented tools, Gamebryo now gives developers of
Wii titles a significant head start by implementing numerous necessary
development features that do not typically come with standard SDKs.
"We are delighted to announce the Wii port of our Gamebryo engine. With the
success of Nintendo's Wii console catching much of the industry off guard
and offering fresh interactive features, developers need new tools to be
able to develop for multiple platforms that offer vastly different
capabilities and require different programming techniques," said Geoffrey
Selzer, CEO of Emergent. "We are committed to making multiplatform
development as painless as possible while still delivering industry leading
performance. Gamebryo for Wii simply sets a new standard for middleware
designed for this top selling platform. We are very proud to be part of
Nintendo's Third Party Tools program."
Emergent also recently unveiled a significant upgrade to its Gamebryo games
engine focused on performance and feature enhancements for next-generation
platforms. With the release of Gamebryo 2.3, dramatic rendering results are
now possible with significantly fewer development resources required for
production.
Gamebryo is a powerful component of Emergent Elements, a family of modular
tools designed to give developers the flexibility and control they need to
create breakthrough gaming experiences.
Gamebryo has been fully optimized for development on PLAYSTATION®3, Xbox
360™, and PC, and has recently gained attention as the engine used in
Bethesda Softworks' record-breaking Xbox 360™, PLAYSTATION®3 and PC
title, "The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion" and on its upcoming "Fallout 3"
across the same platforms. Gamebryo is also being used by EA-Mythic on its
upcoming "Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning." Gamebryo is a mature
software product that ships with 3,500 pages of fully indexed, searchable
documentation. To date, Gamebryo has been used in more than 200 games
titles ranging from massively multiplayer online games, high-end retail
games across multiple genres, and casual games.
About Emergent
Emergent Game Technologies provides flexible technologies and services that
give developers an unmatched range of integrated capabilities for building,
testing and managing games. These proven, stand-alone solutions, known as
Emergent Elements, include the award-winning Gamebryo game engine used to
create hit next-generation games for the Wii™, PLAYSTATION®3, Xbox
360™, and PC. Emergent Elements give developers the flexibility they
need to fuel creativity while reducing risk.
Emergent is headquartered in Calabasas, Calif., and has offices in Chapel
Hill, NC, Austin, Texas and London. To learn more, visit www.emergent.net.
About Nintendo
The worldwide leader and innovator in the creation of interactive
entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and
markets hardware and software for its popular home and portable video game
systems. For more information about Nintendo, visit the company's Web site
at www.nintendo.com.
"PLAYSTATION" is a registered trademark and "PS3" and "Cell Broadband
Engine" are trademarks of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. "Xbox 360" is a
registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. "Wii™" is a trademark of
Nintendo.