TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HI CORPORATION (JASDAQ:3846)(ISIN:JP3160860007)(Headquarters: Meguro-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Kazuo Kawabata hereinafter "HI") today announced that HI’s 3D rendering engine MascotCapsule eruption (hereinafter "eruption") has been adopted by CAPCOM Co., LTD. (Headquarters: Chuo-ku, Osaka; President and COO: Haruhiro Tsujimoto) for CAPCOM’s game---"resident evil 4" for Mobile edition (http://www.capcom.co.jp/iphone/re4/) —developed for iPhone™ and iPod(R) touch.

Supporting the industry-standard OpenGL(R) ES (*1), eruption has an advantage of high-speed rendering by making the best use of the 3D graphics accelerators of iPhone and iPod touch, enabling more sensitive and realistic 3D graphics than the existing mobile phone games.

The eruption has been developed based on the widely used MascotCapsule V3 (*2), allowing game developers and content developers to use their development know-how without learning new techniques. It also has many functions for various effects that support the development, enabling effective 3D graphics programming. This has actually contributed to cutting the development time for this game.

HI is committed to further strengthening its support so that eruption will be widely used in games and content development and spread across the world.

[About MascotCapsule eruption]

An OpenGL(R) ES 1.0/1.1 compliant 3D engine that achieved a dramatically improved processing speed compared to existing 3D rendering engines. By using eruption, game developers and content developers can fully utilize the performance of 3D hardware accelerators offering increased speed as well as developing content with rich expression at high-frame rate.

For details on specifications for eruption, visit our web site at http://www.hicorp.co.jp/english/product/eruption.html.

*1　OpenGL ES

Abbreviation of OpenGL for Embedded Systems (OpenGL is a registered trademark of Silicon Graphics, Inc.).

A 3D graphics API for embedded devices.

For more information, visit the Khronos Group website at (http://www.khronos.org/opengles/).

*2　V3

A light 3D full software rendering engine that does not require a specific hardware.

For more information, visit our website at http://www.hicorp.co.jp/english/product/v3.html.

* iPhone and iPod are trademarks or registered trademarks of Apple Inc.

* MascotCapsule(R) is a registered trademark of HI CORPORATION in Japan.

*Other company names and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of respective companies.

[About HI CORPORATION]

Please visit our web site (http://www.hicorp.co.jp/english/index.html).

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