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Aug 3, 2009

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Console Crysis 2 a "breakthrough" (News)

Jun 11, 2009

Eurogamer.net Writes:

Crytek boss Cevat Yerli has explained why it's taken the developer so long to commit to making its games for consoles, as it will with its next, Crysis 2: it's perfectionism.

There was 2 to 3 years of technical research and development into consoles before development on Crysis 2 started," Yerli told Gamespot. "We had to make a technological breakthrough before we could commit to those quality bars."

CryEngine 3: PS3 vs 360 (News)

May 17, 2009

The pros and cons of cross-platform middleware, as Crytek's Mark Atkinson says "If the game's shader-heavy it runs a bit faster on 360; if it's compute-heavy with physics and particles, the the SPUs take over and it's a bit quicker on PS3."

Rumour Killers: Gears of War MMO? Crysis on Consoles? Aliens RPG Canned? (News)

Feb 13, 2009

TGR: 1. Could Epic be developing a Gears of War MMO? We all know the Gears of War universe is expanding every day, thanks to the huge success Gears 1 and 2 have received on the Xbox 360 this last couple of years. Gears of War has been a benchmark left by Epic for all shooters to achieve. There have been comics, action figures, and even plans for a movie based on the franchise, and the continued support by Epic for Gears 2 has kept the community alive. Apart from the obvious Gears of War 3, how else can Epic expand the franchise even further? How about an MMO?

2. Could Crysis be coming to consoles soon? If there is one game console gamers envy, it is none other than Crysis. The open-world shooter developed by Crytek Studios is probably the best-looking game so far. The only problem with it is that you need one hell of a rig to play at maximum settings and get the most out of this beast. Ever since its launch, there have been rumors that the game would one day make the jump to home consoles. One said it would be on Xbox 360 only, one said PS3, and another said both.

3. Has Sega pulled the plug on its Aliens RPG? The last few days haven't been the best for Japanese gaming giant, Sega. The company has announced losses across the board, is closing down arcades around the world, and will be cutting quite a few jobs, worldwide, too. We were hoping that the games in development either internally or externally wouldn't be affected, but according to this rumor, we may see some games being axed. The game that's making real noise now is Obsidian Entertainment's Aliens RPG, which is based on the sci-fi horror films of the past.

Crysis not necessarily coming to the PS3, or 360 for that matter (News)

Feb 12, 2009

Gamezine: 'Crytek's admission that they are moving to console development excites Crysis fans, but the game isn't necessarily on the way to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

We reported on comments from Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli that their acquisition of Free Radical would speed up their move to consoles:

"This step will certainly bring us forward a bit faster to achieve our goal to develop high quality games on consoles."

He further commented that they'd of course be utilising their CryENGINE 2:

"[Free Radical] have a proven track record in developing great games on consoles and PC. This combined with our own CryENGINE technology and a very experienced team is more than perfect for us."

A couple of websites took this to mean that Crysis, the CryENGINE 2's show piece, would be coming to the PlayStation 3.'

News Roundup: EA Fails Big, Crysis Saves the Day, New LEGO Game Announced (News)

Feb 5, 2009

Today in the round up, Disney Interactive loses 45 billion dollars while LEGO Battles is revealed, and Crytek picks up Free Radical Design.

The 28 Best FPS Games (News)

Jan 3, 2009

From the dystopian corridors of BioShock's subterranean "paradise" to the Strogg-infested space stations found throughout the Quake franchise, First Person Shooters have found countless ways to establish themselves as rich, enjoyable experiences, capturing the hearts and trigger fingers of gamers worldwide.

Even if it's just blasting away wave after wave of demons in Blood, or perhaps saving mankind from itself as you traverse Half-Life 2's City 17, the FPS genre has proven itself time and time again.

Crysis Warzone Trademarked (News)

Jun 2, 2008

inCrysis writes: "It has come to our attention that Crytek has registered a new trade mark, and also a new website, for "Crysis Warzone". No additional information is available at this time.

Trade mark details for Crysis Warzone at UK Intellectual Property Office

The full list, as of 19 May 2008: www.ipo.gov.uk/search.htm?words=crysis

- Crysis Wars
- Crysis Warhead
- Crysis Warzone
- World in Crysis

Crysis Warzone website: www.crysiswarzone.com (registered by Crytek, currently a placeholder)."

Crysis on a console? Not yet (News)

Mar 6, 2008

Geekpulp speaks with Colin Robinson from EA about the Crysis franchise, with palm trees and shipping vessels in the back ground, comes the news that Crysis is not yet a definite on consoles.

VideoGamer.com Rumour mill: X360 Crysis and PS3 Video Store (News)

Mar 5, 2008

The Rumour mill is VideoGamer.com's run-down of the big rumours currently doing the rounds in the video game industry. Every week VideoGamer.com hunts down the juiciest stories and gives its opinion on how legit they are. So, whether you want the ridiculous or the plausible, read on.

Rumours this week:
PS3 Video Store to open in spring
Disaster: Day of Crisis to hit Europe in May
In-game XMB set for summer
Crysis shown running on Xbox 360 at GDC

Rumor: Crysis shown on Xbox 360 to 'prospective publishers' at GDC (News)

Mar 5, 2008

Joystiq Writes:

A glib response from a Crytek representative may have revealed that Crysis is coming to the Xbox 360. The rep reportedly told Primotech that the Xbox 360 version was being shown behind close doors to "prospective publishers" at last month's Game Developers Conference.

This is far from a confirmation; the Crytek rep may have misspoken. Furthermore, we'd be surprised if Crysis PC publisher Electronic Arts didn't have the foresight to secure rights to the console game as well. We do know that Crytek planned on showing off a console version of CryEngine 2 (which runs Crysis), and although the assets were likely Crysis, perhaps the prospective publishers were just looking for a game engine.

GDC 2008: Crytek's Coy On Console Crysis (News)

Feb 22, 2008

Crytek's engine business manager Harald Seeley made the remark to clarify any rumors that Crysis would in fact make its way to Xbox 360 and PS3, despite persistent suspicions that the limited PC market and transition of CryENGINE 2 to console were indicative that such a move would occur.

While Seeley did say that work on CryENGINE 2 for console was proceeding well with quality exceeding the PC engine's medium-level settings at 720p, and that most assets would transition easily from the PC engine to the console engine, he was adamant that the company had yet to make the decision to actually port the award-winning game.

VideoGamer.com Rumour mill for Jan 30th, 2008 (News)

Jan 30, 2008

VideoGamer.com takes a look at the big rumours currently doing the rounds in the video game industry. Every week they'll hunt down the juiciest stories and give their opinion on how legit they are.

Retro Studios working on Zelda spin-off

The Rumour: Surfer Girl claims that Retro Studios' (the team behind the Metroid Prime series) next game will be revealed at or around the time of E3 (which takes place in July) and shockingly is a spin-off from the Zelda series.

Verdict: This seems too far fetched to make up. What's most puzzling is the kind of game this supposed spin-off will be. We're putting money on an action/adventure game of a similar style to Retro's cancelled GameCube project Raven Blade.

Plausibility rating: 3/5

Killzone 2 missing 2008

The Rumour: Killzone 2 is without doubt the most hyped game in development for the PlayStation 3, but with that hype comes much pressure. So much pressure that it's not going to be shipped until it's completely ready - even if that means 2009.

Verdict: This latest Killzone 2 rumour comes from Surfer Girl but that doesn't automatically make it 100% legit. Sony undoubtedly will want Killzone 2 released this calendar year, but all isn't lost if it doesn't happen. We're sure Insomniac's Resistance 2 will be more than happy to step into Killzone's FPS shoes. Sony probably won't get another chance to make Killzone into a big franchise, so Guerrilla Games will likely get all the time it needs.

Plausibility rating: 4/5

One step closer for console Crysis... (News)

Jan 29, 2008

Crysis and Far Cry developer Crytek is unveiling a cross-platform version of its latest technology at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco next month. Unless you've recently been born, you'll know that the proprietary tech - CryEngine 2 - is the engine behind Crysis. A select GDC audience will witness CryEngine 2 running on Xbox 360 and PS3, news which has already set our speculation (and common sense) hats in a twirl. Surely this is indication that Crysis is definitely console ...

Surfer Girl Rumours January 17 (News)

Jan 18, 2008

* Obsidian is NOT making Baldur's Gate 3.
* Crysis is NOT a PS3 exclusive.
* L.A. Noire is still NOT coming to the 360.
* A Wii Star Fox IS under development.
* Something called Gears of War 2 IS going to be at something called GDC.
* Guitar Hero DS IS one of the four Guitar Hero games that EGM mentioned and IS coming out this fall.
* Black Rock Studio's first game under its new moniker IS a PS360 off-road title coming in the fall.
* Grasshopper Manufacturer's next game, a PS360 title, IS delightfully polarizing.

Rumor Killer: EA Says No Plans For 360 Version of Crysis (News)

Jan 4, 2008

TheGameReviews.com decided to call EA today and ask if Crysis was going to come to the 360? Our contact in Licensed Games PR for EA said "There are currently no plans for an Xbox 360 version of Crysis."

Rumor Mill: Crysis Coming to 360 in November? (News)

Jan 2, 2008

January 2nd, 2008 -- Gaming Today reports that an electronic store in Austria, GamesOnly.at, has among its various listings of Crysis for PC a couple of listings of Crysis for the Xbox 360. The most interesting detail to note here is the release date given for those: November 20, 2008. (Click on the image below to see the full Crysis listings at the store.)

The simExchange - Industry to set Software Sales Record (News)

Dec 10, 2007

The simExchange has released their monthly industry report.

Key Topics:
- Video games to break record sales
- PC Games continue to cannibalize each other
- Assassin's Creed - the woes of new intellectual property
- Rock Band - Too many hands in the cookie jar
- Wii - Can it handle M-rated titles

Analyst Jesse Divnich comments on sales:

"The prediction market expects November's software sales to be $1.15 billion which is a 42% increase over sales last year... [Software Sales] will be the highest ever seen in the month of November and the first time November sales will break $1 billion... Combining The NPD Group's estimates in October, retailers will net over $4.04 billion in software sales this holiday quarter, a 39% increase year-over-year-a record as well. "

MMO The Day using Crysis tech (News)

Dec 6, 2007

Dec 6, 2007 Crytek's CryEngine 2 - which powers a little game known as Crysis - is to form the beating heart of Korean MMO The Day. The Day is some way off - it's targeted for release in 2010 - but first info reveals it's a third-person action MMO for PC. Knowing that, it's not surprising that PvP will be a major focus of the title. According to Reloaded, the game will feature a unique, immersive story that's set in the near ...

Underclocking Crysis (News)

Oct 29, 2007

Oct 29, 2007 The much anticipated Crysis single-player demo was released for download Friday night, and naturally we had to have a go at it. Most of us (PC editor excluded) lack any significant horsepower under our desks, so its DX9 and low settings or nothing. To our delight, our mediocre systems are at least capable of rendering Crysis intricate jungle setting well enough to play. Our chugging machines, however, cant produce anything akin to the quality of the low setting DX9 screen ...

Crysis - "Maximum" gameplay trailer 10-23-07 (Video)

Oct 23, 2007

The 360 version was announced and then retracted. Basically, we're all waiting for official word of when we'll be stalking North Koreans in the jungle with super-solider powers.

Crysis success could lead to console version (News)

Oct 5, 2007

Oct 5, 2007 Crysis dev Crytek has revealed that a success for the super-hyped shooter on PC would urge it to seriously consider delivering console versions of the title. "...first we want to see how the game is received, publicly and critically... We believe it will be received at least as strong as Far Cry. I hope personally a 5% average increase... That would give us an argument to [say], 'OK, let's see how we can bring Crysis to consoles,'" Crytek boss Cevat Yerli has told Game Informer in ...

Microsoft green-lights Crysis mod (News)

Sep 25, 2007

Sept 25, 2007 Notch one up for the little guy, as a mod team working on a MechWarrior-based project has secured an official thumbs-up from MechWarrior license holder Microsoft. "Through MANY correspondence and phone conversations with the licensing and legal department over at Microsoft corporation's legal and corporate affairs offices, we have finally been given the 'go ahead' for this project!" a post on the mod website reads. "Microsoft grants MechWarrior: Living Legends a personal, ...

Crysis - Ice level gameplay 09-13-07 (Video)

Sep 13, 2007

The 360 version was announced and then retracted. Basically, we're all waiting for official word of when we'll be stalking North Koreans in the jungle with super-solider powers.

GCDC: Epic, Cryptic, Crytek, Vicious Cycle Talk Engine Tech (News)

Aug 25, 2007

An Engine Panel at the 2007 GCDC examined the benefits and challenges of licensing an engine versus deciding to build ones own, and addressed questions to ask during the decision process and what to look for in support after the decision has been made.

Krawall Gaming Network's Goetz Klingelhoefer moderated, and Cryptic Studios' (City of Heroes, City of Villains) Bruce Rogers, Crytek's (Crysis

Game Critics Awards: Best of E3 2007 Winners (News)

Jul 31, 2007

The votes have been tallied and the Best of E3 2007 Winners have been announced.

Rock Band with 3 seperate votes took first...just barely ahead of Mass Effect who placed second with 2 votes. However, the surprise comes with the games that took the rest of the places:

Bioshock
Burnout Paradise
Call of Duty 4
Crysis
Halo 3
Killzone 2
LittleBigPlanet
Madden NFL 08
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
Virtua Fighter 5
World in Conflict

Gamecriticsawards.com even broke down the tally further and the console with the most wins was...Xbox 360 (acquiring 11 wins), followed in second by the Playstation 3 (aquiring 8 votes). Third place was the PC (with 4 votes), and tied for fourth was both the Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS. Oddly enough, the PSP was last...not even getting one game on the list this year!

Crytek: "Crysis could be on the 360 or PS3" (News)

Jul 31, 2007

Crysis heading to PS3 and Xbox 360 - it's the speculation that's refused to lay down and die. And now, dangling a carrot in front of the faces of those who wish it would, Crytek says it could happen. "Theoretically, anything could run anywhere," Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli told UK PC Gamer magazine when asked if he still believed the first-person shooter couldn't run on console. "Crysis could be on the 360 or PS3," Yerli said. "It requires optimization, that's what we've always communicated," he ...

Crytek: "Crysis could be on the 360 or PS3" (News)

Jul 31, 2007

Crysis heading to PS3 and Xbox 360 - it's the speculation that's refused to lay down and die and now, dangling a carrot in front of the faces of those who wish it would, Crytek has said it could happen.

"Theoretically, anything could run anywhere", Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli told PC Gamer (UK) magazine when asked if he still believed the first-person shooter couldn't run on console.

"Crysis could be on the 360 or PS3", Yerli said.

Game Critics: Best of E3 2007 Nominees Announced - COD4, LBP,UT3, Bioshock, Halo 3 and more (News)

Jul 23, 2007

Game Critics: Best of E3 2007 Nominees have just been announced. List follows:

Best of Show
- Bioshock (Irrational Games/2K Games for PC, Xbox 360)
- Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Infinity Ward/Activision for PC, PS3, Xbox 360)
- Fallout 3 (Bethesda Softworks for PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360)
- Mass Effect (Bioware/Microsoft Game Studios for Xbox 360)
- Rock Band (Harmonix/MTV Games/EAP for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360)

Read On.

GameTrailers: E3 Game Awards (Part-02) (News)

Jul 20, 2007

Yesterday's openly salvo of GameTrailers.com's "E3 Business & Media Summit Awards" offered up nominations and winners across various categories, such as Best Racer, Best Action Adventure, Best PSP Game, and Best DS Game. And, to be honest, the winners and loses didn't really throw up many surprises.

However, today's second round of E3 Awards coverage may well stoke the fires of fervent fanboy fanaticism. And why?

Oh, because the Best First-Person Shooter category does not include nominations for Halo 3 and Killzone 2, because Sony comes under fire on various fronts in terms of Most Disappointing, and neither Mass Effect nor Assassin's Creed is given a nomination nod for Best Graphics Â¿ while a revamped PC port of Gears of War certainly is.

Crysis - hands-on (Preview)

Jun 12, 2007

This is not Far Cry. The nanosuit your character wears in this spiritual successor turns you into a full-blown superhero, and it renders you near-unstoppable. That means theyve had to make your task exponentially harder to compensate, of course. This time youre taking on whole armies, fleets of vehicles, aliens the size of volcanoes and stranger things still. The resulting conflict is action of a higher order of magnitude. Every ten seconds something explodes, and a Crysis explosion is a hell ...

Crysis (Screenshots)

Jun 12, 2007

Crytek plans two Crysis demos (News)

Mar 22, 2007

Developer Crytek and EA plan to release both a single-player and multiplayer demo of Crysis shortly before the hotly anticipated FPS releases, fansite InCrysis is reporting. In addition, it's stated the shooter will be out in Q3 2007 - so between July and September - however EA was unavailable to confirm this at the time of ...

Crysis not coming to consoles... yet (News)

Feb 28, 2007

Much like a soap opera, it's getting pretty confusing following the twisted saga of Crysis' fate on consoles. We just want to know whether it's coming or not. Some of us pour all our money into consoles, not massive computer updates including new graphics cards or operating systems. What do we know so far? First, thats not how you spell “Crisis.” It is if youre Crytek, creators of the rather beautiful, original PC version of Far Cry. It is, in fact, a rather clever spelling in ...

Stunning Crysis gameplay trailer (News)

Oct 26, 2006

Thursday 26 October 2006 This amazing gameplay footage from PC super-shooter Crysis shouldn't show you anything new - unless you've been living in a box under the sea for the past two years - but it'll still blow your mind from here to next Tuesday with some truly gobsmacking jungle-based blasting and a teasing glimpse of the brittle ice-world at the centre of Crysis' pacific island locale. Hit the movies tab and enjoy. With you fighting both a trigger-happy Korean army and a horde of ...

Crysis ready for consoles (News)

Oct 9, 2006

Monday 9 October 2006 Crysis, the spiritual successor to Far Cry and one of the most visually impressive games shown at this year's E3, could make the shift from PC to next-gen consoles, according to developer Crytek. "I don't think there would be any problem," reckons lead artist Michael Khaimzon, contrary to the response given to GamesRadar by Crytek's president, Cevat Yerli, who stated, "It's PC only". "We have enough power here to be able to do such a thing. It's just a matter of making ...