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Read More »Dead Space 3, Crysis 3 US retail sales for February revealed
We now have specific sales figures to go with EA’s relative dominance last month at US retail. Info provided to Gamespot, following NPD’s February 2013 report, revealed chart topper Dead Space 3 sold 605k units for the month. The game was on top of the UK weekly software charts in …
Read More »Lack of support ‘killed’ Crysis 3 on Wii U
Publisher and platform holder disinterest prompted project cancellation
Read More »Crytek insists Crysis 3 is the best in the series, despite lowest review scores
"It is better than Crysis 2. It is better than Crysis 1. Technical and creatively, and storytelling – all aspects." That’s the analysis of Crytek founder Cevat Yerli, who believes that the studio’s latest release Crysis 3 is the best it has ever released. Obviously you’d expect him to say …
Read More »Devs predict F2P focus for new gen consoles
CCP and Crytek predict monetisation model will be core to the make up of future hardware
Read More »Crysis 3 beta hits 3m downloads as pre-orders swell
EA has revealed impressive beta figures and a spike in pre-orders for Crysis 3, as the game readies for launch this week across multiple territories. The publisher announced Crytek’s sequel reached 3m players during beta, helping pre-orders to a 35 per cent increase compared to Crysis 2. The beta reached …
Read More »Dev contest challenges students to map new worlds
Year-long project aims to unearth future talent through building interactive environments
Read More »Crytek to be F2P only ‘in two-to-five years’
Studio investigating potential for business model on consoles
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 »Crytek considered Vigil bid
German company passed on studio because it didn't want Darksiders IP
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