NVidia today has announced that they’ve sealed an agreement with Sony to put their PhysX engine into the PS3 SDK, making it the standard for hardware accelerated physics simulation on the console.

“NVIDIA is proud to support PLAYSTATION 3 as an approved middleware provider,” said Tony Tamasi, senior vice president of content and technology at NVIDIA. “Games developed for the PLAYSTATION 3 using PhysX technology offer a more realistic and lifelike interaction between the games characters and other objects within the game. We look forward to the new games that will redefine reality for a new generation of gamers.”

via NVidia Press Release