SpeedTree RT Chosen for Eight More Game Titles

"SpeedTree RT Will Be Featured in Five Xbox 360 Launch Titles

New Deals Include Ubisoft, THQ; WEBZEN Signs 3rd & 4th

Eight more games, including MMOs, Xbox 360 titles and PC strategy offerings, will feature SpeedTree RT’s unmatched approach to realistic, windblown trees and plants. With the addition of licenses for Huxley, by WEBZEN, and Saint’s Row, by THQ, SpeedTree is in five titles whose launch is expected to coincide with the debut of the Xbox 360 game platform in November 2005. Others among the five launch games include Bethesda Softworks’ The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, announced previously, and two Xbox 360 titles not yet publicly identified as SpeedTree-licensed projects.

“SpeedTree is driving the game industry’s wholesale adoption of a new environmental standard,” said Kevin Meredith, Director of Business Development for SpeedTree developer IDV. “Both traditional game developers and the pioneers of the next generation understand the dramatic effect realistic, animated foliage has on overall aesthetics and strategic game play. Players want natural foliage, and the best game developers will meet that demand in a way that only SpeedTree makes possible.”

SpeedTreeRT licenses announced today and described in more detail in accompanying press releases are: