Square Enix announced today that they have made a deal with Epic Games and purchased a license for the Unreal Engine 3. For those of you who don't know Epic Games, they are the creators of the Unreal series (that the graphics engine got named after) and of the recent Gears of War for the Xbox 360. There are already numerous games using the new engine and Square Enix has said that they are going to use it to develop games for the next-gen systems.
Until now Square has been using many different graphics engines made in-house but the cost of developing them has been very high and its been increasing, especially with the extremely powerful CELL architecture used by the PlayStation 3. The White Engine created for FF XIII and Versus XIII will still be used for other titles.
Taku Murata the general manager of the research and development division at Square Enix explains :
Its currently unknown what title(s) Square Enix is going to develop with the Unreal Engine but we'll keep you updated. Maybe we'll see a Final Fantasy FPS.
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It's for FFXIII and FF versus XIII. They won't be using the White Engine til after Fabula Nova Crystallis as said by Tosirou Tsuchida.
Closing off the Ge-maga feature, Kitase made mention of the fabled "White Engine," the next generation engine Square Enix is using for Final Fantasy XIII. He hinted that Square Enix is considering using the engine for games after Final Fantasy XIII. The recent announcement of the company's plans for the Unreal Engine 3 caused some concern that Fin