| Sumario: | The article discusses middleware, software that is used by electronic-game developers to support their entertainment products with cross-platform libraries. Topics are: contracting out middleware development to specialized companies; the websites for Criterion's RenderWare graphics engine, Softimage's Alienbrain asset management package, Scaleform's font rendering engine, and Havoc's physics engine; the Dynamic Motion Synthesis technology developed by the middleware company NaturalMotion which is used in LucasArts' "Star Wars: The Force Unleased" and Rockstar's "Grand Theft Auto IV"; the opinion of NaturalMotion's chief executive officer Torsten Reil that middleware is intellectual property; and the outlook for academia to be a source of free middleware.
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