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EA has narrowed down the release date for hotly-anticipated shooter Crysis 3. The publisher revealed both the European and US release dates for the title at a preview event highlighting its Q1 2013 line-up. As reported by Joystiq, Crytek founder Cevat Yerli revealed at the event that the game would …
Read More »Crytek shooter Warface garners 5m users in Russia
Free-to-play title set to be released in North America and Western Europe 'in the near future'
Read More »Crytek’s Warface hits 5m registered users
Free-to-play FPS Warface is seemingly doing the business for Crytek in Russia. The studio has announced that the game has now reached 5m registered players in the territory. The news comes in the same week as the shooter received the Best Online Game accolade in Russia’s Runet Awards. Reaching the …
Read More »Crytek offers TimeSplitters fans hope of series return
Petition started to bring back beloved first-person shooter
Read More »Crytek throws TimeSplitters fans a lifeline
Cevat Yerli, the CEO and president of Crytek, has offered the vocal TimeSplitters fanbase a glimmer of hope. Ever since the release of TimeSplitters: Future Perfect way back in 2005, fans have been calling for the IP to be resurrected. And with Crytek having acquired TimeSplitters dev Free Radical in …
Read More »Crysis struggles to break even as dev ponders free-to-play switch
It’s one of the biggest triple-A franchises in gaming – so it might surprise you to learn that Crysis is struggling to break even. I’m not talking about being greedy and we want more sales. But effectively Crysis 1 and 2 and 3 are just about breaking even. If we …
Read More »Can free games work on console?
If you believe the boss of developer Crytek, then games consoles are facing a crisis. The firm’s CEO Cevat Yerli says that its three upcoming console titles – Homefront 2, Crysis 3 and Ryse – will be its last 50 products. After then it’ll focus all its efforts on creating …
Read More »MCV digital edition goes free-to-play
This week’s MCV isnow available to view online – and it is absolutely free. The issue is dedicated to the free-to-play games market and features the biggest names in freemium, including Wargaming, Nexon, Ubisoft, CCP, Crytek, InComm, Qinqo, Disney, EA, Gameloft, GREE, GameForge, Jagex, Trion Worlds, Square Enix, MarvelousAQL, Perfect …
Read More »Getting to grips with UI
Develop discovers whatâ??s next for the future of user interface design and development
Read More »VIDEO: Crytek shows off CryEngine 3
Crysis 3 tech video demos the engine behind FPS franchise's latest
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