Ryse, Crytek's Kinect-powered first-person melee combat game set in ancient Rome, may be headed to Microsoft's next-gen console (whatever that may be). A former senior level designer at Crytek has indicated as much on her LinkedIn profile.
Piranha Games' upcoming MechWarrior Online may be a free-to-play game, but it promises not to look cheap. The company has licensed the highly-regarded CryEngine 3 to power the online game, and is one of "over 20" F2P games currently in development using Crytek's engine.
"It is definitely the best choice for us," Piranha Games president Russ Bullock said in a press release. "Both the character animation pipeline with the procedurally and physics based animations and the destruction system fit our goals perfectly."
Two months after a console version of Crysis was spotted in a ratings database, Crytek has announced a "remastered" version of the original Crysis for Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network this October. Though Crysis 2 hit Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 as well, the 2007 original was only ever released on PC.
An anonymous blog materialized on the Internet last week, alleging that Crysis 2 developer Crytek had "unlawfully" fired a number of employees and treated staff as "disposable pieces of meat to be discarded at will." While it's unknown who's making these claims, Crytek co-founder Avni Yerli has piped up to dispute them.
The battle of the engines continues. Crytek has announced that the SDK for its CryEngine 3 will be free--not unlike the competing Unreal Engine 3 from Epic Games. The free toolset includes the CryEngine 3 Sandbox level editor, and promises to be updated regularly, "to make sure our community has access to all the advances we make to CryEngine 3."
Curiously, the press release says the free SDK will make "next generation games for PC," omitting the fact that the engine also works on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
Crysis 2 developer Crytek has announced that its free-to-play Warface will come Westward in 2012. The sillily-named shooter was previously only confirmed for South Korea and China, where the F2P model is hugely successful.
Along with the PvP modes you'd expect from a class-based multiplayer shooter, Warface will pack PvE co-op missions. It's being co-produced by Crytek Seoul.
Crytek is diversifying its portfolio, continuing to work on games that don't have "Cry" in the title. Having shipped Crysis 2 recently, the company is working on a new multiplatform shooter IP, reports Supererogatory. Mention of the new IP comes from a LinkedIn profile, which mentions a "New IP, shooter genre, TBA title for Xbox360, PS3 and PC." Vague, but there you have it.
The company was also working on another shooter, which was quietly canceled.
"Can It Run Crysis?"
Gamers that played Crysis 2 on the PS3 or Xbox 360 unlocked the tongue-in-cheek achievement after running through the tutorial. But, while the consoles could run the CryEngine 3-powered sequel, many gamers wondered if it would be able to play the benchmark of benchmarks: the original Crysis. Read more »
Crysis developer Crytek used Microsoft's E3 2011 press conference to formally unveil Ryse, the Xbox 360 exclusive previously known as Codename: Kingdoms.
A Kinect-controlled first-melee game set in the world of Ancient Rome, Ryse will see players using Kinect gestures to block attacks with their shield, swing their swing, kick foes, deliver headbutts, and throw blades at foreheads. Read more »
Crytek is planning a low-cost version of its Crysis 2-powering CryEngine, akin to Epic's Unreal Development Kit, company co-founder Avni Yerli has told Develop. While there are no concrete details for now, it's good to hear.
"We have a business model in mind for this--which I can't get into details of right now--but it will be extremely user-friendly," Yerli said. "The barriers for entry will be very low, and perhaps even for free. Of course this will be compared to UDK and Unity and so on, but we think this sort of competition is very good for the community." Read more »
Crytek's awkwardly-named Warface, its new CryENGINE 3-powered free-to-play shooter for Asian markets, has secured a publisher for China. Tencent will publish the game in the country and introduce it to the market there, which should give the game a decent shot of becoming incredibly profitable for Crytek.
The game was originally announced for South Korea out of Crytek's Seoul office, but was always planned for operation in additional territories. Now, unless you live in that part of the world, you'll probably never play Warface, but you can look at this trailer comprised of pre-Alpha gameplay from the game. Read more »
Crysis developer Crytek has announced that it's working on a free-to-play multiplayer shooter for Asian markets, powered by the engine behind Crysis 2. The name of the game? Warface.
No, stop laughing. Co-produced by Crytek Seoul in South Korea, Warface--stop it!--will feature co-op missions as well as your regular class-based PvP play. Free-to-play games are commonplace in many Asian markets, usually supported by microtransactions for premium features and in-game bonuses. Read more »
Nexuiz, originally released on the PC, Mac, and Linux in 2005 using a heavily modified Quake engine, is in development for release on PSN and Xbox Live Arcade. The console versions of the FPS will use Crytek's CryENGINE 3 and will become the first PSN and XBLA release to utilize the new engine.
Crysis developer Crytek is developing an Xbox 360 exclusive currently known only as "Codename: Kingdoms," Microsoft has revealed during its E3 press conference.
The reveal was light on details, though Kingdoms appeared to be a medieval-ish action title. Crytek filed a trademark for "Kingdoms" in April 2009. Read more »
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