AcroGames signs up for Unreal Engine 3

Epic Games today added yet another company to its ever-expanding array of business associates when it announced that Korean developer AcroGames, Inc. has licensed Unreal Engine 3.

Nothing was revealed about what sort of game AcroGames will make with the engine, but the studio does have developers that worked with Epic technology before, most notably on NCsoft's Unreal Engine 2-based massively multiplayer online game Lineage II. Members of the development team also had a hand in the Magna Carta series from Softmax.

AcroGames joins a stable of existing Unreal Engine 3 licensees that includes Microsoft, Electronic Arts, Activision, Vivendi Games, Midway, Capcom, Square Enix, and THQ. It has been used at the heart of a handful of games, including Gears of War, Stranglehold, and BlackSite: Area 51, and is the source of a legal dispute between Epic and unsatisfied licensee Silicon Knights, which signed on to use the engine for Too Human.