EA Announces Multi-Title Unreal Engine 3 License

An anonymous reader writes to mention a Gamasutra article about a surprising announcement from EA. They've made the move to license the Unreal 3 Engine for a series of next-generation titles. "The brief announcement states that EA 'employs a variety of engines, tools and technologies to best serve the needs of each game and development team', but raises interesting issues regarding the Criterion-authored Renderware engine, purchased by EA in 2004 alongside the Burnout developer, and its intended global EA rollout."

Cool.

[Antony.S]

(well, someone had to reply eventually)

Re:Game engine consolidation

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> vacuuming up small game companies

Aside from the Mythic acquisition, EA hasn't been purchasing companies.......