Epic Games has announced that it will make Illuminate Labs a part of Epic's prestigious Integrated Partners Program. This means that we will be working even more closely with one another and that Beast will be available to any publisher or developer that licenses UE3.

Unreal Engine 3's new toolset is designed specifically to accelerate developers' productivity for ultra-complex, next-generation content, and by being an Integrated Partner, we will be able to bring the power of Beast’s lighting solutions to even more UE3 artists. Epic only establishes such formal business relationships with a limited number of exceptional companies that produce exceptional cross-platform technologies that integrate with or complement UE3.

The end result will make it even easier to create even cooler games, and to utilize the best global illumination techniques in the universe while doing so. To read the entire scoop in press release form, click here.