One of the better deals during Steam’s holiday sale was the Stalker series for something like $5—pretty much an insane deal. The games are the definition of the PC shooter (as opposed to console shooter like Killzone or Halo): freedom of movement, no silly scripted sequences, mods all day long, etc. Well now it looks like a group of modders, from Russia, have taken it upon themselves to port the game to the engine that powers Crysis. → Read More
After watching the Duty Calls parody video from this morning, we were discussing how the open-ended shooters of yore, like Delta Force and the first halves of Far Cry and Crysis, are pretty hard to come by these days. I’m not sure exactly how open Crysis 2 is going to be, but brother, that doesn’t change the fact that it looks awesome. → Read More
Bad news for Crysis 2 fans, EA had their financial announcement today, and confirmed that Crisys 2 will be delayed unti 4Q2011. It was originally scheduled to come out this winter. EA didn’t let out any official reason for the delay, but it could be related to the recent addition of 3D graphics. I say let ‘em hold off and get it right the first time. [via Destructoid] → Read More
Does the mere idea of a console exclusive game from Crytek make your blood boil? Yeah, me neither, but it’s sorta weird seeing the once PC-only developer embrace consoles so forcefully. The big one, obviously, is Crysis 2, being developed for the PC, Xbox 360, and PS3. But then word hit at E3 that Crytek would be developing a 360-only game, Codename: Kingdoms. Hearts, they are broken! And is Crytek now planning on developing a PS3-only game? → Read More
Pretty sure Crytek, of Crysis fame, is usually associated with blazing fast graphics cards and extreme edition processors, so color me surprised to see it embracing Microsoft’s Project Natal and Sony’s Move. Surprised and disappointed, to be exact—I shan’t be participating in this motion control business, that’s for sure. → Read More
The World’s video game press gathered in New York on Tuesday for the world premiere of Crysis 2, the sequel to the game whose memory lives in on the question, “Yeah, but does it run Crysis?” It’s no coincidence that Crtyek, the game’s developers, and EA, the game’s publisher, chose New York to show off the game, with Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli calling the city “symbolic of the pride of mankind.” Clearly he hasn’t been to the more rubbish sections of Queens. Yes, you’re in an altogether different type of jungle this go-round. → Read More
Steam has yet another great weekend sale going on right now. Both Crysis and Crysis Warhead are $15 each this weekend and let me just say, they are totally worth it. → Read More
This is a scene from the movie Blade Runner rendered using CryENGINE 2, the game engine that powers Crysis. → Read More
Gotta admit that I didn’t see this one coming. Apparently in anticipation of Crysis Warhead, Electronic Arts will be getting into the hardware business with some gaming PCs made to “correspond to Crysis Warhead’s levels of graphical detail, with a likely price range being $600-$800,” according to Remowned. The rumor was overheard at EA’s Comic-Con booth. A rep for the company apparently mentioned that the PCs would be released alongside Crysis Warhead in order to calm people’s fears that games from Crytek require multi-million dollar machines to run smoothly. I had a hell of a time trying to get Far Cry to run on a 486DX2/66 that I use for gaming, but people have been telling me that it’s time to upgrade anyway. [via Ubergizmo] → Read More
In an interview with PC Play Magazine, when asked about the current state of PC gaming, Crytek president Cevat Terli said: “We are suffering currently from the huge piracy that is encompassing Crysis. We seem to lead the charts in piracy by a large margin, a chart leading that is not desirable. I believe that’s the core problem of PC Gaming, piracy. To the degree PC Gamers that pirate games inherently destroy the platform. Similar games on consoles sell factors of 4-5 more. It was a big lesson for us and I believe we wont have PC exclusives as we did with Crysis in future. We are going to support PC, but not exclusive anymore.” Plenty of other PC game developers have raised the same complaint about piracy. You’ll recall that THQ chimed in a couple months ago and Gears of War developer Epic Games announced that it’ll be going console-only from now on. via ALBOTAS → Read More
Crytek has been pretty mum about the console plan for its GPU-taxing hit, Crysis. They said they’d be showing it on consoles at GDC, but it was nowhere to be found unless you did the legwork yourself. This intrepid gamer/reporter found that they were in fact showing it on the 360 behind closed doors, but only to publishers. Of course, the 360 was the obvious choice, what with the DirectX framework already in place. Still, it’s good to know that the Xbots will get their shot at 2007′s prettiest shooter. GDC 08: Crysis on Xbox 360 Shown Behind Closed Doors [Primotech] → Read More
