Epic Games and Valve Software today announced that they have signed a licensing deal. Under terms of the agreement, Valve will provide Steamworks to all licensees of Epic's Unreal Engine 3 free of additional charge.
"Valve has created a world-wide phenomenon with Steam and we're excited to be able to have the Steamworks suite of services available to Unreal Engine 3 licensees so they can take full advantage of all that Steam has to offer," said Mark Rein, co-founder and vice president of Epic Games. "With Valve offering these services free of charge, the idea of providing the Steamworks SDK to all Unreal Engine licensees was a no-brainer."
Unreal Engine 3 is a middleware providing core technology, content creation tools, and support infrastructure necessary for AAA titles. Steamworks offers publishing tools like key authentication, copy protection, auto-updating, social networking, matchmaking, anti-cheat technology and more.
"Epic's technology is one of the most widely used engines in the industry and has powered many of the best games created in the past 10 years, on multiple platforms," said Gabe Newell, co-founder and president of Valve. "It's an honor to have Steamworks included in the technology offered to all Unreal Engine 3 licensees. It's hard to think of a larger, better targeted group of developers who could derive more benefit from the Steamworks services."
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May 5, 2010
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