Emergent Enters Gamebryo Licensing Agreement With Gorilla Banana

Emergent Technologies said Wednesday that it licensed its widely-used Gamebryo engine to Korean developer Gorilla Banana Entertainment, which will use the engine in the MMORPG Red Blood. It’s the latest Asian licensing deal Gamebryo has announced in recent weeks, as the engine provider is making an effort to significantly expand its business in the region. Other Korean studios that recently struck Gamebryo licensing deals include Crossfire developer SmileGate and Iris Online creator Entwell. Gorilla Banana’s MMORPG Red Blood is a futuristic action game revolving around companies that have created an improved, genetically-altered human race. Players choose to join one of four countries. Red Blood is the first game from Seoul-based Gorilla Banana, which was founded in 2006 by former NCsoft developers who worked on the Lineage series. Emergent’s Gamebryo has been used in games including Warhammer Online, Defense Grid: The Awakening, Divinity II, Fallout 3 and Civilization: Revolution. The engine has been used to developer over 200 games, according to Emergent.