Emergent Game Technologies, a worldwideleader in 3D videogame engines, today reported a 35% increase in revenuesyear over year and a 58% increase in profitability for the year ending2009. Strong licensing deals and reduced expenses led the fourth quarter,ending the year with over 120 deals closed. Growth was strongest in NorthAmerica, Japan and China, with Emergent聶's Gamebryo LightSpeed gainingrapid adoption and driving the strong 2009 results.
"Emergent has made changes to weather the tough economic climate and ispoised to become stronger than ever as a result of those changes," saysScott M. Johnson, Emergent's CEO. "While the Asian market and the US visualsimulation market never slowed paper bag printing for us, we are now seeing signs that gamedevelopment is starting to pick up in North America and Europe. Our coremessage of reducing redundancies by using Gamebryo LightSpeed is resonatingwith publishers and developers."
Based in Calabasas, CA, Emergent creates technologies that are drivingprofessional videogame development. Emergent's revolutionary game engine,Gamebryo LightSpeed, was released in May 2009 and provides both establishedand newly emerging studios with a flexible engine that continues to expandand grow with their evolving development needs. LightSpeed empowersdevelopers to create their games in any genre and continues Emergent'sdedication to providing a one-stop cross-platform toolset forPlayStation庐3 computer entertainment system, Xbox庐360, Wii聶 and PC.
Fourth Quarter Fiscal 2009 and Recent Highlights:
-- Growth was in large part attributed to multi-SKU, multi-year commitmentsfrom licensees in six countries, driving market share for Emergent.
-- Larian Studios commits to Emergent's technology for developing diversetitles, including Divinity II - Ego Draconis (Xbox 360/PC) released Jan 5th2010 and educational PC title Monkey Labs.
-- Cyanide Studios launches Blood Bowl for Windows PC and Xbox 360 inJanuary 2010, powered by Emergent's engine technology.
-- Emergent signs master licensing agreement with Interactive Believe(InbeEdu) at Chongqing University in China and launched the GamebryoEngineer Certification Training Program with Gamebryo integrated directlyinto the curriculum, and with all InbeEdu videogame engineering studentsnow trained using LightSpeed.
-- IPKeys, an emerging strategic partner in the government defense sector,selected Emergent's LightSpeed to create counter-IED simulations for U.S.Forces, specifically with the Joint Improvised Explosive Device DefeatOrganization's Technical Gaming Team (JIEDDO TGT).
Fendi Replica Handbags-- Emergent and Scaleform庐 Corporation co-developed an out-of-the-boxintegration that combines Scaleform GFx聶 with LightSpeed, extendingLightSpeed's rapid iteration benefits to make it faster and easier thanever for developers to create cutting-edge user interfaces (UIs) and videousing Scaleform and the Adobe庐 Creative Suite庐 and Flash庐 tools.
-- Three additional development technology providers joined more than 20members of Emergent's partner program in creating integrations; Evolver'seasy-to-use web interface for building and customizing 3D character modelsand avatars, Pixelux' Digital Molecular Matter and Sundog'sSilverLining聶 for physically realistic skies, clouds, lighting, andprecipitation effects.
Emergent's game development products have been used for more than 300successful projects. For more information, please visit .
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