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Hey, look, another Korean developer licenses Unreal Engine 3

by Samuel Axon Jun 17th 2008 at 8:00PM

Filed under: Sci-fi, MMO industry, New titles, News items

Epic Games is apparently doing a good job selling and supporting its Unreal Engine 3 in the Korean market. Yet another developer has licensed the engine for an MMO project. This time it's T-Entertainment, which is working on a "space opera" MMO called L2. Wow, that sounds like the name of another Korean MMO!

Welcome to the club, T-Entertainment! Meet AcroGames and Bluehole; they're also Korean developers using Unreal Engine 3. Oh, and of course you know about Webzen's Huxley, which is built on Unreal Engine 3. Yes, also Korean. Let's not forget the illustrious NCsoft, which already used the previous version of Unreal for Lineage II, and plans to use version 3 for not one but two new projects.

There was an interview with Epic Games' Mark Rein at Gamasutra several months back. He said that Epic is working hard to propagate Unreal Engine 3 in Korea, but described serious challenges -- particularly with customer support. It looks like Epic is finding ways to deal with those challenges after all.

[Via Worlds in Motion]

Tags: acrogames, bluehole, epic-games, gamasutra, huxley, interview, l2, lineage-2, lineage-ii, mark-rein, ncsoft, t-entertainment, ue3, unreal, unreal-engine, unreal-engine-3, unreal-engine-3.0, webzen, worlds-in-motion

Bluehole joins vast ranks of Unreal-using devs

by Samuel Axon Mar 29th 2008 at 6:30PM

Filed under: MMO industry, New titles, News items

A new Korean development studio called Bluehole announced this week that it has licensed Epic's Unreal Engine 3 for its "flagship" MMO project, which is codenamed Project S1. The studio just started up last year, and is composed of "key members from some of the leading development and management teams in Korea." Specific, that!

Project S1 is being developed for the PC, and according to a statement by Epic's Jay Wilbur, its team has "plans to reinvent MMO design and battle system mechanics." Sounds promising, but it's awfully soon to tell. We're looking forward to hearing more about this project in the months to come.

Bluehole joins fellow Koreans NCsoft and Webzen, along with seemingly countless other studios like Cheyenne Mountain and 38 Studios in using the prolific and popular Unreal engine.

Tags: bluehole-studio, epic-games, korea, license, project-51, ue3, unreal, unreal-engine, unreal-engine-3