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HI's 3D Rendering Engine "MascotCapsule(R) Eruption" Is Adopted for "Resident Evil(R) 4: Zeebo Edition" for a 3G Wireless Entertainment System "Zeebo(TM)"
TOKYO - (BUSINESS WIRE) - HI CORPORATION (JASDAQ:3846)(ISIN:JP3160860007)(Headquarters: Tokyo,
Japan; President and CEO: Kazuo Kawabata; hereinafter "HI") announced
today that HI's 3D rendering engine MascotCapsule eruption
(hereinafter "eruption") has been adopted by Capcom
Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Osaka, Japan; President and COO: Haruhiro
Tsujimoto; hereinafter "Capcom") for their video game "Resident
Evil 4: Zeebo edition" developed for a 3G Wireless
entertainment system "Zeebo", targeting consumers in BRIC
countries. The Zeebo is manufactured by Zeebo, Inc.
(Headquarters: San Diego, California, United States; CEO: John Rizzo).
"By using eruption, we were successfully able to easily port the game
utilizing the BREW(R) version. In addition, thanks to eruption's high
quality graphics, we can represent our high technologies to Zeebo
users," said Takeshi Tezuka, General Manager of Mobile Content
Development and Senior Manager of Business Development, R&D Management
Group at Capcom.
"It's great to see popular brands like Resident Evil come to the Zeebo
platform," said Mike Yuen, Senior Vice President, Content & Services at
Zeebo, Inc. "HI's MascotCapsule technology is very well known and widely
used by Japanese game publishers, and we hope this is just the first of
many more great titles to be made available for our system."
Now that eruption supports Zeebo, game publishers are able to use it for
developing new games for Zeebo. They can also use MascotCapsule V3, a
full-software 3D rendering engine, for Zeebo.
How to Obtain Software Development Kit
To obtain the software development kit of eruption, you need to accept
the commercial license agreement (A license fee is required). Contact adinfo@hicorp.co.jp
for details.
* MascotCapsule(R) is a registered trademark of HI CORPORATION in Japan.
* Other company names and product names are trademarks and/or registered
trademarks of respective companies.
About HI
HI CORPORATION is a leading research and development company in
middleware development for embedded devices. Its flagship product,
real-time 3D rendering engine "MascotCapsule", has been adopted by five
Japanese mobile network operators as well as by major handsets
manufacturers for their global releases. For more information, visit our
website at http://www.hicorp.co.jp/english/index.html.
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