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Crytek is currently experimenting with virtual reality and how its CryEngine technology can power such an experience. The company’s managing director Faruk Yerli said Crytek has big plans for the VR space, claiming that his team had "already found solutions" to dealing with motion sickness – an inherent problem with …
Read More »Crytek CEO: ‘We’re not perfect; we paid the price for transformation’
The founder and CEO of Crytek has admitted that the studio has ‘paid the price’ to downsize and cut costs. The Far Cry, Crysis and Homefront: The Revolution developer was hit by job losses and staff salary payment issues earlier this year, before selling the Homefront IP to publisher Deep …
Read More »GameSpy shutdown means 50 EA games will terminate online support
The closure of GameSpy’s online multiplayer servers is going to affect 50 EA games, the publisher has said. The list includes Battlefield 1942 on PC and Mac, Bulletstorm on PS3, Crysis and Crysis 2 on PC and a host of DS titles including some FIFAs and Need for Speeds. Since …
Read More »Crysis Trilogy available on Origin
EA has bundled all three of its Crysis games – and more – in a single digital release. The Crysis Trilogy contains Crysis, Crysis: Warhead, Crysis 2: Maximum Edition, Crysis 3: Digital Deluxe Edition and Crysis 3: Lost Island Expansion. It’s available on Origin for 34.99. It’s probably worth noting …
Read More »Audio Special: Crysis management
Steve Parker details Side's recent audio work on Crysis 3 and what you can learn from it
Read More »Crytek: Graphics are 60% of the game experience
Crytek CEO claims visuals are the biggest part of immersion for games
Read More »Lack of support ‘killed’ Crysis 3 on Wii U
Publisher and platform holder disinterest prompted project cancellation
Read More »Crytek wants to be the king of new hardcore free-to-play market
Crysis developer Crytek foresees a future for the company where none of its titles make it to retail. That’s because the German developer wants to become the leader in what it believes is the emerging hardcore free-to-play space, with its own Gface platform at the centre of it – much …
Read More »Future Crysis titles may abandon the FPS genre
Crysis 3 is unlikely to be the last in the series… but it could turn out to be the series’ last first person shooter. "At this point I don’t want to give anything away," Crytek producer Michael Elliot Read told OXM. "But I think the Crysis franchise itself has life …
Read More »Free-to-play and retail can co-exist, says Yerli
Crytek CEO details the studio's vision for the future of gaming
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