Epic Games, Inc. said on the 23rd that it signed a 10-year technology partnership agreement with Nexon Korea (hereafter Nexon).
Through this agreement, Epic Games, Inc. will supply the "Unreal Engine" across the major titles and long-term development roadmap of Nexon, a global game development corporations. All projects developed by Nexon will be able to use Unreal Engine.
Through this partnership, Epic Games, Inc. will provide technical support with "Epic Pro Support," which covers the entire spectrum of game development. It will support the development stability and quality standards required for large-scale AAA projects, and provide long-term support to enable smaller genre projects as well.
Epic Games, Inc. said it aims to enable Nexon to build a consistent development environment and quality standards even for large-scale multi-platform projects by leveraging Unreal Engine's high-performance rendering capabilities and highly scalable development pipeline. Nexon is expected to enhance development quality and boost the speed and completion of new intellectual property (IP) and global projects.
Park Yong-hyun, Nexon executive vice president overseeing development, said, "Through this partnership, Nexon will adopt Unreal Engine as its integrated development engine to more aggressively target the global market, strengthening technical stability and expanding development capabilities across various platforms," adding, "We will do our best to strengthen the next-generation game development ecosystem with development capabilities aligned with global standards and to deliver higher-quality game experiences to users."
Park Sung-chul, head of Epic Games, Inc. Korea, said, "It is very meaningful to sign a long-term Unreal Engine partnership with Nexon, a global game development corporations that represents the domestic market," adding, "So that Nexon's development philosophy—which has consistently delivered not only AAA blockbusters but also experimental and original games—can be further strengthened and advanced through this agreement, we will actively support the development process using Unreal Engine as a development foundation with the performance, scalability, and quality required by Nexon's high project standards."