Square Enix today announced a licensing agreement with Epic Games to implement Unreal Engine 3 middleware into its next-generation game development process. There are no specific details on the new titles which will benefit from this licensing agreement, but the press release mentions the Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest and Kingdom Hearts series as highly successful franchises which pushed game consoles to their limits. If the trend continues, we expect that new titles from these series will be powered by the Unreal 3 engine.