After years of rumours, speculation and even a cancellation, the Prey series is finally making its return next week. Over the years, the Prey license has been handed over to Arkane Studios, opting for a reboot of the series. In preparation for next week's launch, publisher Bethesda has released a …
Read More »Crytek to shutter five of its seven studios
Following news that months have gone by without many of Crytek's employees being paid at all, the long-time video game company has now announced that it is closing five of its seven studios. While Frankfurt and Kiev-based studios will remain, those in Hungary, Bulgaria, South Korea, China and Turkey will …
Read More »Crytek launches CryEngine V with new business model
CryEngine has proven to be one of the more impressive graphical engines since its debut with version 1. Now today, Crytek is launching CryEngine V and has also announced a change in business model, allowing developers wanting to use the engine to ‘pay what they want'. “CRYENGINE V launches today …
Read More »Crytek’s Dinosaur Island VR game is free on Steam now
Earlier this year, Crytek impressed us all with its Dinosaur VR demo. Now, you can play it for yourself, as the studio has released Back to Dinosaur Island for free on Steam. The game has been built from the ground up to take advantage of the Oculus Rift, so you …
Read More »It looks like Crytek might be making a game for Amazon
Rumor has it that Crytek has just entered a huge licensing deal with Amazon, worth between $50 million and $70 million. The developer, which recently faced some financial struggles, will now be kept afloat for quite some time, according to several anonymous sources speaking with Kotaku. Crytek did say last …
Read More »Crytek wants to develop virtual reality games
Crytek, the studio behind Crysis, the original Far Cry and the CryEngine, is looking to start developing for virtual reality, hoping to one day deliver a “fully-fleshed VR experience”. The developer is currently experimenting with virtual reality and has some future plans in place. During an interview with Gamespot, Crytek …
Read More »Ryse gets fidelity boost on PC
Ryse: Son of Rome, originally an Xbox One exclusive, caused developer Crytek a lot of problems, as despite being a beautiful rendering of what new-gen games could look like, its gameplay was lacklustre, with quick time events galore and repetitive combat. However now in an effort to recoup a little …
Read More »Crytek wants to fix its damaged reputation
Crytek hasn't been in good shape recently, it lost a fair amount of staff members and had to sell off the Homefront IP in addition to its UK studio development staff to Publisher, Deep Silver. However, the company is now looking to move forward and fix its damaged reputation according …
Read More »Crytek sells Homefront dev, downsizes US prescence
Crytek has been in a spot of bother for some time now, with cashflow seeming to be a real problem. Last month we heard how developers had only been paid £700 a piece over the preceding 30 days and now it turns out that Crytek has sold its Homefront licence and …
Read More »Crytek’s UK employees stopped going to work
It might have only just released Warface to the world like it's business as usual, but all is not well at Crytek. We heard late last month that many staff at the UK arm of the developer were paid as little as £700 for a month's work and now there's …
Read More »Crytek UK developers were only paid £700 last month
We already know that Crytek seems to be in financial trouble, the company has reportedly cancelled its sequel to Ryse Son of Rome after the Xbox One launch title flopped and staff are leaving left, right and centre. It turns out that the developers currently working on Homefront 2 haven't …
Read More »Here’s what Crysis 3 looks like in 8K
Crysis has always been one of the best looking games as well as one of the most demanding titles to run but what will it look like in ten years time? A resolution hack has allowed Flickr user, K-Putt, to run Crysis 3 in 8K to take some pretty good …
Read More »Crytek to adopt AMD Mantle API for CryEngine
Advanced Micro Devices has announced that Crytek, a leading developer of video games and game engines, will adopt the company’s proprietary Mantle application programming interface for CryEngine. Once the latter gains support for Mantle, games based on CryEngine may get a performance boost on systems featuring AMD Radeon graphics based …
Read More »Crytek, Epic make engines available on subscription
If you're an indie developer that always wanted to build a game using the prettiest engines in the world, but could never afford it, then today's your lucky day. Both Epic Games and Crytek have announced that they're making their respective engines available to anyone for a low monthly fee. …
Read More »Star Citizen developer hires fan video maker
Star Citizen it's just the biggest crowd funded project ever, but it's also garnering a seriously rabid fan base around it, with early backers already thinking ahead to what the game will be like at full release. Some fans have even been making videos using some of the few assets …
Read More »Crytek wants to use open street map data for video game environments
Crytek, the development group responsible for one of the most beautiful game engines to date, Cryengine, and subsequent games Crysis and the original Farcry, have challenged software makers to create a programme that could use open source street maps to render open world environments, in turn saving on development time. …
Read More »Well the new Cryengine is pretty
As you might expect, Crytek, the makers of all the Cry franchises (Far Cry and Crysis), has announced a new version of its CryEngine back-end development tool and game engine, though this time around it's not numbering it: simply calling it, CryEngine. We can call it CryEngine 4 all we …
Read More »Cryengine SDK 3.4.3 is now freely available
The last version of Crytek's Cryengine that was freely available was 3.4.0, which was released back in April. Since then the company has made a lot of changes to its game creation tools, but none of them have been usable by those without a paid license. Now though, it's updated …
Read More »CryEngine 3 licensed for Digital Visualization Projects
Crytek GmbH (Crytek) announced that it closed a licensing deal for CryENGINE 3, its proprietary real-time development solution, with Crystal CG, a world leading digital image service provider. Crystal CG is dedicated to providing customized solutions based on 3D digital visualization technologies and has been working on a number of …
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