With next-gen game development picking up speed, Epic Games, the developer behind the Unreal Engine 4, has chosen to optimize its relationships with various developers with a newly-instated Integrated Partners Program. According to Tim Sweeney, founder and technical director of Epic Games, “The new Integrated Partners Program helps Unreal Engine 4 developers maximize their time with the most advanced toolset we’ve ever developed.” 

The first round of program inductees has already been revealed:

• Audiokinetic – Wwise
• Autodesk – Autodesk Gameware
• Donya Labs – Simplygon
• Geomerics– Enlighten
• IDV – SpeedTree for Games
• Intel – Intel Threading Building Blocks (TBB)
• NaturalMotion – morpheme and euphoria
• NVIDIA – PhysX and APEX
• Oculus VR – Oculus Rift
• RAD Game Tools – Bink Video and Telemetry Performance Visualizer
• RealD – RealD Developer Kit (RDK)
• Umbra Software – Umbra 3
• Xoreax – IncrediBuild-XGE

Source: Develop-online