Today Epic Games and Valve Software have announced their partnership to bring Valve’s Steamworks SDK, for free, to Unreal Engine licenses. This is great news for game developers who are looking to incorporate the Steam service to their Unreal Engine games. The Steamworks suite includes tools to help in "product key authentication, copy protection, auto-updating, social networking, matchmaking, anti-cheat technology and more."
“Valve has created a world-wide phenomenon with Steam and we’re excited to be able to have the Steamworks suite of services available to Unreal Engine 3 licensees so they can take full advantage of all that Steam has to offer,” said Mark Rein, co-founder and vice president of Epic Games. “With Valve offering these services free of charge, the idea of providing the Steamworks SDK to all Unreal Engine licensees was a no-brainer.”
“Epic’s technology is one of the most widely used engines in the industry and has powered many of the best games created in the past 10 years, on multiple platforms,” said Gabe Newell, co-founder and president of Valve. “It’s an honor to have Steamworks included in the technology offered to all Unreal Engine 3 licensees. It’s hard to think of a larger, better targeted group of developers who could derive more benefit from the Steamworks services.”
To see more details on Epic Games’ Unreal Engine, visit unrealtechnology.com. Visit Valve’s Steam service at steamgames.com.
If you’re at GDC, visit Epic’s booth at Moscone Center’s South Hall -Expo Suite 202 to view demonstrations of the latest Unreal Engine features (March 11 to 12 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and March 13 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.).
