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Three years ago, a South Korean developer named Redduck took a chance released A.V.A.. The free to play first person shooter was the first Korean-made game to be released that used Epic Games' Unreal Engine 3 game development tools. Today Epic Games has an office in Korea and other titles using their Unreal Engine tech have been developed and released in that country. A.V.A. has also been released in the US as Alliance of Valiant Arms via the Ijji.com portal.

Today Epic Games announced a new agreement with Redduck for a new Unreal Engine 3 license. Redduck will use the engine for their next free-to-play first person shooter Metro Conflict: Presto. You can check out a fairly unusual trailer for the near-future based game after the jump. There's no word on when the game will be released.

Epic Games continues to expand its business to other parts of the world and this week at the Tokyo Game Show it was revealed that the developer will open up a new office in Japan. Our sister site Joystiq reports that the office will be based in Tokyo and will mainly be used to provide Unreal Engine customer support to Japanese-based development studios. However, Epic's president Mike Capps added that the office could expand to develop actual games.

This is just the latest in Epic's expansion plans. Besides their North Carolina home base they own two development studios in the West; Chair Entertainment in Utah and People Can Fly in Poland. They also operate Epic Games Korea for engine support and they are also involved (although more indirectly) in Epic Games China.

Epic Games continues to expand its offices with today's announcement of Epic Games Korea. The new office in Seoul, South Korea will be devoted to helping game developers in that area of the world with Unreal Engine licening and support. There's no iindication that the new studio will be active in its own game development.

In addition to its main hub in North Carolina, Epic Games owns two development studios, the Utah-based Chair Entertainment and the Poland based People Can Fly. It's also involved in Epic Games China, which licenses the Unreal Engine in that territory and who also creates their own games.

[Via email press release]