CALABASAS, Calif. (April 1, 2008) – Emergent Game Technologies announced today that NCsoft®, the world's leading developer and publisher of online computer games, has signed a licensing agreement for the award-winning Gamebryo video game development platform with the company’s North American business unit. NCsoft’s product portfolio includes the world’s largest massively multiplayer franchise, Lineage®, as well as the award winning Guild Wars® and City of Heroes® franchises.
“Gamebryo offers a comprehensive development framework with the right balance of flexibility to integrate with our proprietary tools and existing projects,” said Chris Mayer, VP of product development for NCsoft North America. “It allows us to very quickly take projects from concept to prototype on a variety of platforms which is a tremendous advantage from a creative execution standpoint. Having our creative teams worrying less about fighting with technical challenges and focused more or making sure the product is fun is the right strategy for developing our games.”
“Gamebryo was engineered as a flexible and modular platform supporting multiple genres of games,” said Geoffrey Selzer, CEO of Emergent. “Our cross-platform technology gives NCsoft unlimited options for extending its current products and creating new content for the global gaming audience.”
About Gamebryo
Gamebryo has been fully optimized for development on PLAYSTATION®3, Xbox 360™, PC and Wii™, 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 include the award-winning Gamebryo game engine used to create hit next-generation games for the Wii™, PLAYSTATION®3, Xbox 360™, and PC. Emergent gives 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; London; Tokyo; China; and Korea. To learn more, visit www.emergent.net.
About NCsoft Corporation
NCsoft North America is headquartered in Austin, Texas and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Korea-based NCsoft Corporation. NCsoft, with its own development and publishing offices in Texas and California, also works with other NCsoft subsidiaries and third party developers throughout North America to develop and publish innovative online entertainment software products. The company has successfully launched multiple online titles in the last three and a half years and continues to support its franchises, which include Lineage®/Lineage II, City of Heroes®/City of Villains®, Guild Wars/Guild Wars Factions®/Guild Wars Nightfall®/Guild Wars: Eye of the North™, Dungeon Runners™ and Richard Garriott’s Tabula Rasa®. More information about NCsoft can be found at www.plaync.com.
“PLAYSTATION” and “PS3” are registered trademarks of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. “Xbox 360” is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. “Wii™” is a trademark of Nintendo.
Contact:
Susan Kramer
Double Forte for Emergent Game Technologies
(415) 848-8113
skramer@double-forte.com