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Chinese Game Developer Perfect World Licenses ARM Enlighten Global Illumination Technology
Geomerics, an ARM (News - Alert) company, today announced that leading
Chinese gaming company Perfect World has licensed Enlighten™,
the advanced global illumination technology, to deliver richer graphics
in its highly anticipated mobile titles.
Perfect World, the developer of the top-selling Perfect World and Legend
of Martial Arts franchises, is one of China's leading mobile game
developers. Licensing Enlighten's advanced lighting technology will help
Perfect World meet the demand from China's 400 million gamers for
increasingly realistic computer graphics. In addition, its real-time
lighting workflow will enable Perfect World's designers to tailor games'
artwork efficiently and deliver the finished product to market faster.
"Enlighten is redefining the way computer game lighting is delivered to
the screen and sets a new standard for global illumination," said Ming
Cui, vice president of technology, Perfect World. "Using Enlighten in
our mobile gaming portfolio delivers the highest quality graphics and
assures our customers that we are investing in technology that can give
us unique advantages over our competition."
There are 900 million smartphone users in China with the ability to
access games on the move. To keep up with demand, more than 100 new
titles are being delivered on a daily basis. ARM's collaborative
ecosystem has deep foundations in this market and has already supported
Perfect World in optimizing their proprietary 3D mobile game engine,
ECHO-es, for ARM® Mali™ GPU based devices.
"China's game development market is incredibly vibrant and has an
audience that is hungry for the highest quality tites that take
advantage of the latest technologies," said Chris Porthouse, vice
president of gaming middleware, ARM. "Enlighten is already used by
developers of the global best-selling titles Battlefield Hardline,
Dragon Age: Inquisition and Lords of the Fallen. Perfect World will be
the first Chinese developer to innovate with this enriching technology."
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About Enlighten
Enlighten is the industry's most advanced dynamic lighting technology,
delivering real-time global illumination across all gaming platforms. It
has helped define the look of some of the most iconic titles in gaming
including Battlefield Hardline, Dragon Age: Inquisition and Lords of the
Fallen.
Its lightweight technology scales between mobile, console, desktop and
virtual reality (VR) platforms and is optimized to extract maximum
performance from the hardware, making Enlighten the industry standard
for game lighting. This complete solution enables fully dynamic
lighting, the baking out of static light maps or any combination of the
two. Enlighten is the technology of choice of the world's most
successful game studios; it is built into Unity 5 and available as part
of the Unreal Engine Integrated Partners Program or as a standalone SDK.
About ARM
ARM
(LSE: ARM, NASDAQ: ARMH.US) designs technology at the heart of the
world's most advanced digital products. We are enabling the development
of new markets and transformation of industries and society, invisibly
creating opportunity for a globally connected population. Our scalable,
energy-efficient processor designs and related technologies deliver
intelligence wherever computing happens, ranging from sensors to
servers, including smartphones, tablets, digital TVs, enterprise
infrastructure and the Internet of Things.
Our innovative technology is licensed by ARM Partners who have shipped
more than 75 billion System on Chip (SoCs) containing our intellectual
property. Together with our Connected Community, we are breaking down
barriers to innovation for developers, designers and engineers, ensuring
a fast, reliable route to market for leading electronics companies.
Learn more and join the conversation at http://community.arm.com.
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or registered trademarks of ARM Limited (or its subsidiaries). All other
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