Late last week Epic Games announced that it had struck a multi-year, studio-wide licensing agreement with LucasArts for its Unreal Engine 3. The agreement covers multiple projects to be developed by LucasArts using the engine for multiple platforms.

Unreal Engine 3 is the game engine that Epic Games developed and was designed to run on Windows, OS X, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and most recently iOS. It certainly opens up the possibility of LucasArts expanding their development of iOS games, which currently only consists of The Secret of Monkey Island given the simplification of porting games is made with Unreal Engine 3 across platforms.

In their announcement, Epic Vice President Mark Rein said, “LucasArts is now primed to capitalize on Unreal Engine 3’s ability to scale across platforms, from mobile, through PC and console all the way up to the next generation of games.” Earlier this year Gameloft revealed that they had licensed the Unreal Engine for four iOS games following the success of Epic Citadel and Infinity Blade - demonstration games made by Epic Games that showed the power of the game engine on iOS.

[Via TouchArcade]