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Why Crysis 2 Is Console Bound
Crysis is coming to consoles. Check out the trailer right here, folks. The German developer probably must have a pretty good reason to bring the PC series to home consoles. It does. More »
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Comment by Winterbringer: Chances of it looking as good as the first? None. Chances of it still blowing every other console game out of... 46 Responses | Other threads
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germany
German Pols Push to Ban Development of Violent Games
Germany's latest demagogue tantrum against "killerspiele" - violent video games - could be shrugged off as hot air, except for the fact it would ban even their development. So Germany-based Crytek would have to move. More »
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By Owen GoodComment by Allcars: I'm pretty sure 4chan had alot to do with this. I do remember a post by this killer the night... 22 Responses | Other threads
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Crysis 2 Trailer Is Light On The Crysis 2
Crysis 2 is going multi-platform. Don't expect this E3 trailer to shed light on how it will look on consoles. It doesn't.
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Crysis 2 Is Announced, Multi-Platform
Crysis, the gorgeous sci-fi shooter from German developer Crytek Frankfurt, is a PC game. So is its sequel, Crysis 2 — that, and an Xbox 360 and a PS3 game. More »
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Comment by robpe36: Wow so if Crysis 2 is being made for consoles, that means Crysis 2 is going to look worse than... 38 Responses | Other threads
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These Dreams
Crytek Helps Free Radical Realize Their Dreams
How did Crytek get picked to purchase Free Radical over the various other companies vying for a piece of the floundering studio? By harnessing the power of dreams. More »
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By Mike FaheyComment by Archaotic: Agreed, Fahey. If TimeSplitters 4 isn't finished this year, I will cry. Verily so. 15 Responses | Other threads
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New Crytek Trademarks
German developer Crytek, the studio behind Far Cry and Crysis, has trademarked a couple new names: More »
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onlive
Crytek: The Internet Isn't Ready For Streaming Game Services
Crysis developer Crytek reveals that they have done research into providing streaming game services like the ones Onlive is promising, only to conclude that the internet wouldn't be ready for them until at least 2013. More »
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By Mike FaheyComment by FlagshipFighter: Even if it isn't ready now one thing is confirmed, the technology that Onlive provides is the future of gaming. 33 Responses | Other threads
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New CryENGINE 3 Trailer, Screens
We got a quick look at Crytek's new engine the other day, but it was small, and it was grainy. Didn't really do the thing justice. So today, we'll take another look. More »
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Comment by WonkersWatilla: Wow! I swear I've seen this engine before! Oh wait it was CryEngine 2 and it looked better there. 31 Responses | Other threads
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First Footage Of New Crytek Engine
Earlier in the month, Crysis developers Crytek announced the latest version of their in-house game engine, CryENGINE 3. With no footage. They were saving that for today. More »
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PC Gaming Getting New Crytek Engine (Time To Upgrade)
Still can't run Crysis at full settings? You're far from alone. You're also about to be left in technology's dust, as developers Crytek have announced a new game engine. More »
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Comment by Fredgeot: ALREADY!?? WTF? Cryengine 2 didn't even reach its full potential. Looks like we are gonna need a core i7 OCTACORE... 35 Responses | Other threads
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Crytek Putting On A Warface?
Crytek, developer of Crysis and Far Cry, has registered trademarks for an upcoming project dubbed Warface. Whether that's a poorly named sequel to Crysis: Warhead, we don't really know at this point. More »
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free radical
RIP "Free Radical" As Developers Get A Name Change
Look, it's great for the staff at Time Splitters developer Free Radical that the studio found a buyer. Nobody likes to be out of a job. But did they need a name change? More »
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Comment by moehannes: "Haze 2: The Hazerer" Featuring the multi platinum selling theme song by Nickleback inspired by the game. 36 Responses | Other threads
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acquisitions
Crytek Buys Free Radical
Timesplitters and Haze developer Free Radical Design has found financial sanctuary in German developer Crytek, who is reported to have purchased the struggling Nottingham, UK dev for an undisclosed amount. More »
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Comment by Silveth: Is it weird that I actually liked Haze? Sure, the graphics were terrible, and the gameplay parts were a little... 13 Responses | Other threads
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Crysis Warhead
Crysis Warhead Performance Put To The Test
We know Crysis Warhead has some odd nomenclature for graphic settings, but how well do those graphics settings actually performed. After all of the complaints about the original game's outrageous system requirements, developer Crytek promised that this side story would be tweaked to run well on a much more affordable computer, but did they deliver? The guys over at TechSpot have gone in-depth to analyze the game's performance, providing benchmarks for 14 different video cards at each of the game's three quality levels, and the results aren't too spectacular. What they basically discovered is that said tweaks are negligible, and only a very high-end video card is capable of breaking past 32 frames per second at the lowest resolution they tested, 1440x900. More »
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By Mike FaheyComment by macr0planet: They really didn't. I almost want to say the graphics don't look that good, at least compared to Crysis... 8 Responses | Other threads
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Crysis Warhead Has Stupid Graphics Settings
Did a memo go out saying that the accepted terminology for graphics settings in a PC game were no longer going to be used? We must have missed it. It must have been signed "EA marketing team", too, because no developer in their right mind (and we hope Crytek are in their right mind) would go changing "low", "medium" and "high" to "minimum", "mainstream" and "gamer". As for "enthusiast", Lord only knows where that's meant to go. An enthusiast of what? UFO conspiracies? North Korean military insignia? Cross-stitching? More »
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uwe boll
Oh Noes: Far Cry Releasing in Germany Only
Kidding! We mean the piece-of-shit movie Uwe Boll is making under the same title. It has a Germany-only release date of Oct. 2, at least according to the press kit Big Download dug up. But still, big month for Uwe: Postal's out on DVD, he's got a game coming out, 1968 Tunnel Rats, which nevertheless sounds like the name of some second-division Bundesliga team. I wonder though, if he makes a movie based on the game of 1968 Tunnel Rats, would that be like a dog eating and then crapping its own turd? More » -
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Crysis and Warhead Available on Steam
Crytek and Valve have reached an agreement to bring both Crysis Warhead and Crysis to Steam this weekend. So if you drop 7 hundy on your Crysis-branded PC rig but don't want to shell out or drive to the store for a retail copy of its namesake, there you go. And if you're keeping your old setup and want to know what you need on board, check the specs. Valve says both titles are available for pre-purchase now, and will release "mid-September." Warhead's commercial street date is Monday. More »
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Crysis Warhead
Crysis-Branded PC: Full Specs, Comes Bundled With XP Pro
We saw some brief specs for the Crysis-branded "Warhead PC" the other day, but they were just that, brief. Today, ads for the system have started appearing, which not only give us the full tech specs for the machine, but also some new details. For starters - and this is most important considering the price tag - the machine comes bundled with XP Professional, already updated to the latest service pack. Also included is a Realtek HD sound card, keyboard, mouse, 250GB HDD and an assurance that the whole thing will have Warhead running on the highest graphical settings at 30FPS. More » -
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Crysis-Ready PC Specs, Price
First announced in July at Comic-Con, we now have the first hard details on the official, Crysis-branded PC that's due for release later this month. The end result of an assurance by Crytek that their games game could run - at "high" settings - on a $900 machine, the rig actually comes in at $699, has been christened the "Warhead PC" in honour of the upcoming expansion, and will launch alongside it on September 16. Specs are as follows. More »
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Comment by Preyfar: Meanwhile, I have trouble playing keeping a smooth framrate in Crysis on High with 9800 GX2's in Quad SLI at... 8 Responses | Other threads
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Crysis Wars
Crysis Wars Trailer: Explosions
Crysis Warhead is coming with a little bundled extra: Crysis Wars, a new take on Crysis' multiplayer aspects. This trailer, made from in-game footage, shows that it's looking both nice and fast, but if they don't fix it so the Koreans don't take 1,736 bullets to kill, it'll all be for naught.
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Comment by DragonNinja: @Arlips: Considering Crysis was a huge let down, do you blame me? "Hey guyses, we has awesomest grafix evar!!!111!" Yet the actually... more » | Other threads
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Crysis Warhead System Specs
Worried you won't be able to play Crysis Warhead? Check the specs. EA have posted these on the game's store page, meaning that while you may not find solace in them, you can at least be assured that they're official. Basically, if you could play Crysis, you can play this. If you couldn't, and still can't, we're sure you're still squeezing hours of fun out of Oblivion. Or Starcraft. Or Nancy Drew: Phantom Of Venice. More »
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Comment by AsianAfro77: I deeply wonder if these minimum specs allow you to play a slideshow of Crysis Warhead, not the game. 1 Responses | Other threads
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Crysis Warhead Launching Next Month
Well that was relatively quick, wasn't it? It was only two months ago that EA and Crytek announced the development of the next installment of Crysiss, Crysis Warhead, and now they've revealed the game is only a month away from release. Warhead should be hitting retail shelves in North America on September 16th, four days after the European release on September 12th. More »
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By Mike FaheyComment by alf717: Just starting playing Crysis again and am glad to here that Warhead is less than a month away. I hope... more » | Other threads
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Games Convention 2008
Video Games Live Brings Crysis Music Home
The Video Games Live concert series is adding Crysis to their amazing arsenal of audio artistry, and they'll be debuting music from the title on Crytek's home turf. As with any giant industry event, Tiny Tommy Tallarico's traveling tour event will be hitting the Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany next week, where Inon Zur's masterful score will be performed, accompanied by game footage and lighting effects to drive the sound home. More »
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By Mike FaheyComment by Omnimon: @balls: Funny, my wife and I went. Together. more » | Other threads
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Crysis Warhead
Crysis Warhead Screens
Some new Crysis Warhead screens (along with bigger versions of some old ones) have been released, courtesy of Japanese site 4Gamer. We know they're for Warhead, and not the same-island-same-bad-guys Crysis, because Crytek were good enough to stick Psycho's (the expansion's protagonist) in half of them just to be sure of it. Particularly #s 5 & 6, which should make for a great "spot the difference" print-out for your next children's birthday party. More » -
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EA Looking To Market Crysis Ready PCs
Now here's an interesting tidbit that came out of Comic-Con this past weekend. Electronic Arts is looking at marketing a line of desktop PC systems to coincide with the release of Crysis Warhead, branded with the Crysis name. The reasoning? More people who don't regularly use a PC to game will pick up a PC branded with a game name simply for the assurance that the system will run the title. They are looking at providing multiple systems at a price tag between $600-$800 to coincide with how well the gamer wants the game to run. More »
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Crysis Warhead Screens
These aren't from the original Crysis. Promise! They're from Crysis Warhead, Crytek's upcoming sequel/expansion thing. We know, it's the same bad guys, same island, but you'll just have to take our word for it. Also take our word that it's probably best to call this a mission pack, like we used to in the good old days. More »
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Crysis Warhead Sure Looks A Lot Like Crysis
Not that we were expecting the Crysis series to be turned on its head, but Crysis Warhead looks perhaps a bit too familiar. Maybe we're reading a bit too much into this action packed teaser trailer for the EA published shooter and, no, it's not a proper sequel and maybe Crytek has already spoiled us with the gorgeous original, but I can't shake the feeling of deja vu. More »
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Comment by Syndicated Terence: I loved Crysis but could really need to add a seperate "energy bar" for the stealth mode... Just saying. more » | Other threads
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Crytek's CEO: Piracy Threatens PC Exclusivity
Tucked into a wide-ranging interview with IGN is this nugget from Cervat Yerli, the CEO of Crytek, developer of Crysis: More » -
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Crysis Warhead Much Easier On Your Machine
It looks like Crysis Warhead won't be nearly as much of a strain on our gaming PC's as the original title was. In an interview excerpt posted at German magazine site PCGame.de, Crytek boss Cevat Yerli promises that a PC costing around €400 ($620) should be able to crank out a consistent 30 to 35 frames per second, whereas the original Crysis would have the FPS of a View-Master on a similar machine. More »
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By Mike FaheyComment by Melonfodder: @MadonnaProject: You seem like an incredibly bitter person. Got get some air, kiddo. I just came back from some custom maps for... more » | Other threads
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Crytek Moving Toward PSP Development?
PSP programmers take note—Crytek is hiring. The developer of Crysis and Far Cry is looking to bring its wares to the PlayStation Portable in some form, looking for experienced PSP developers to relocate to its Budapest studio to work on an unspecified project. Odd choice for a platform, considering Crytek president Cervat Yali said the company was "suffering currently from the huge piracy that is encompassing Crysis" earlier this year, as piracy on the PSP platform isn't exactly rare. More »
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Comment by SeraphX2: But this piracy we speak of. Does it involve actual new titles? Crytek suffers from piracy OF Crysis.... more » | Other threads
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Game Reveal
Crysis Warhead Revealed
EA and Crytek invite PC gamers to go completely Psycho this fall in the newly announced Crysis Warhead, teased yesterday via CrysisTheGame.com. Developed with a focus on story and game performance, Warhead isn't so much a sequel as it is a parallel story, told from the point of view of Sergeant Sykes, codenamed Psycho, probably my favorite character from the first game. He'll have his hands full on the other side of the island while Nomad is doing his thing. New weapons and vehicles will be at his disposal, and the game will also feature new multiplayer content for those of you who enjoy killing each other. More »
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By Mike FaheyComment by freespeech: enhanced version of the cryengine 2 engine???? so they want to make so that absolutely no one can play... more » | Other threads
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Crysis Warhead Is Certainly Something
What's all this then? Awhile back developer Crytek filled for trademarks on a variety of Crysis-related names, among them Crysis Warhead, though back then we had no earthly clue as to what it was referring to. Well now we still have no earthly clue what it is referring to, but we can definitely tell you it is something terribly official if this image, which is appearing on the front page of the official Crysis website is any indication. More »
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By Mike FaheyComment by SegevRaz: Well it turns out this "expansion" is just the game but from Psycho's point of view, means you'll be playing... more » | Other threads
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Crytek Get All Mysterious Over Future Crysis Support
A few days back, Crysis developers Crytek announced that they were, apparently, cutting off support for the title. That the 1.3 patch that was supposed to be released would not be released. And that they were sorry. Cue loads of upset Crysis owners. But just what does that mean? I think their explanation for the patches cancellation is more interesting than the cancellation itself: More »
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Far Cry 2 Is Not Ubisoft Trying To Outdo Crysis
Far Cry was developed by PC developer Crytek. Crytek made Crysis, and that game is very, very pretty. But Crytek isn't doing Far Cry 2 — Ubisoft is! The photorealism of Crysis must be somewhat intimidating, even for Ubisoft. But the Far Cry 2 developer is going a different direction. Says the game's art director Alex Amancio: More »
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Crytek Ditch PC Exclusivity, Blame Pirates
Crytek were probably the last great dev team devoted solely to making PC users feel inadequate about their system specs. No longer. In an interview with PC Play, Crytek president Cevat Yerli has said that thanks to both "huge piracy" and the small returns PC games bring in compared to console titles, the company will no longer be making games exclusively for the PC market. They'll still make games for the PC, of course, just...not only for the PC. More »
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What If Oblivion Ran On The Crysis Engine?
Your computer would explode. That's what. So let's just play hypotheticals, then, and check out this clip showing what the Imperial City and surrounding countryside look like running on Crytek's CryEngine. The city assets are dropped straight in from Oblivion, but the natural stuff and lighting, that's all new. And gorgeous. More » -
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Crysis To - Apparently - Run Real Nice On Console
While we're still a little light on info relating to the inevitable console ports of Crysis, developers Crytek are more than happy to tell us all about the game's engine, and how they think it'll run once its chugging along on a console. Crytek's Harald Seeley:We expect the final outcome will result in games that look like they're running at high settings, or nearly high settings, on a PC.
Should this be the case, we expect anyone that shelled out on an expensive PC just to play Crysis to be a little frowny :( More »
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PS3 Crysis Is 50% New Content?
It's not so tough being a PS3 owner waiting for ports of PC and/or 360 games. Sure, you've gotta wait, but when a game does make the jump, it normally brings with it some free extras. Like Oblivion did. And now Crysis, if the latest issue of PSW is to be believed:...it won't be a straight conversion of the PC game. We understand PS3 Crysis will be an almost 50% new game, with many of the original games staff taken off PC Crysis months before release to begin to work on Crysis 2 and a port to PS3 that will include aspects of the sequel - but a new structure, environments, weapons and enemies will feature on PS3.
Sounds great for PS3 owners...I guess...but really, that sounds messy. Staff being pulled off the PC version so half a sequel can be put on an (as of yet) unannounced console port? Urgh. More »
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Comment by Tyle-Shananigin: Oh great another excuse for just slapping on half of what Crytek has completed for Crysis 2. Cause Blue-Ray's got... more » | Other threads
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Blue Mars MMO Will Satisfy Fans Of Mars, Women's Fashion
First announced aaaaallll the way back in March 2007, Avatar Reality have today released the first screens and solid info on their upcoming MMO Blue Mars. Set on Mars in the year 2177, they say "players will be able to live out their fantasies through personalized avatars", and that a public beta will kick off later this year. Oh, and it's all looking very gorgeous, as you'd expect from anything powered by Crytek's CryENGINE 2. More »
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Comment by slappyMCslappy: so I'll basically have to travel to the future and by a pc then I can run this "game" huh??? more » | Other threads
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