Develop Industry Excellence Awards 2009: Best engines
Unreal Engine 3 is a complete development framework for DirectX 10-equipped PCs, Xbox 360 and PLAYSTATION 3, providing the vast array of core technologies, content creation tools, and support infrastructure required by top game studios, advanced visualization and simulation developers and creators of 3D animated content for linear productions.
Emergent’s Gamebryo is a flexible, cross-platform game development engine and toolset. It’s optimized for current- and future-generation game development for any genre or type of game.
For nearly a decade, Blitz has invested heavily in tools and technology for game development. Everything developed within Blitz is founded on a shared engine and tool set. This encompasses over 25 entertainment titles, across 8 platforms including PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii and PC.
Rapidly breaking free from its indie and hobbyist stereotype, Unity is now being used at high end studios like Funcom and EA. The in-browser support has been coupled with new MMO functionality to provide an increasingly popular tool.
Trinigy´s powerful Vision Engine 7 is a cutting-edge game engine technology powering numerous Game Titles and Serious Games Applications in Europe, Asia and America.
Well-known game companies like Ubisoft, Firefly, Take 2, Neowiz, Zed, JoWood, dtp and Spellbound rely on the Vision Engine for developing their innovative titles. Serious Games industry leaders such as EADS, IHC Systems and Camber Corp. use the Vision Engine for their training, visualisation and simulation applications.
The pronunciation of PhyreENGINE is "Fire Engine" - because FIRE (the fire) is the feeling/idea which was put together in doing it. It was designed to be the pipeline of art data preparation/processing as an engine. Together with the Engine it comes a module full of source support, the package contains the engine itself, samples of games (70+ samples) and their full code source and artwork, also the full documentation and manuals. In wath it seems a "late start" (by SONY, related to XNA and other competitors) PhyreEngine comes out in great condition and it can become the main 3D game engine in the industry.