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Electronic Arts and Crytek Working on New Video Game

Video game developer Crytek and publisher Electronic Arts seem to be working on a whole new video game project, as suggested by a new job listing which seeks a new video editor for a studio in Guilford, United Kingdom. The job ad says that knowledge of the CryEngine is an asset for those who apply and that the perso...

22 February 2012
02:25 GMT

NY Video Game Critics Honor Crysis 2 as Most City Centric Title

Video game critics in New York have launched a new awards initiative which is designed to honor games hat have a connection with the city and have displayed outstanding quality, with the first batch given out late on Friday. Here are the winners of the awards given out by video game critics in New York City: Manhat...

4 February 2012
06:06 GMT

GOTY 2011: Best First-Person Shooter – Crysis 2

Quite a lot of great first-person shooters have been released this year, with two special ones, Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 being released in quick succession, one after another. While both those titles were very good, the best shooter experience I had this year was with Crysis 2. Crytek stomped...

29 December 2011
16:31 GMT

GOTY 2011: Best Graphics Runner Up – Crysis 2

While video game graphics these days are being weighed down by the aging consoles, like the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3, there were still quite a lot of great titles that were released this year which managed to push current platforms to their limits and delight us with their visual fidelity.Among them was Crysis 2, co...

19 December 2011
06:50 GMT

Crysis 1 Available on October 4 for PS3 and Xbox 360 Consoles

The original Crysis first person shooter from Crytek will be released onto consoles like the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on October 4, after being announced earlier this month.Seeing as how Crysis 2 impressed not just PC gamers but also console owners, Crytek, together with its publishing partner, Electronic Arts, hav...

27 September 2011
14:21 GMT

Remastered Crysis 1 Coming to PS3 and Xbox 360 This October

Crytek has just confirmed that the original Crysis first person shooter is making its way onto consoles like the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in the form of a remastered downloadable version this October. Crytek impressed a huge amount of gamers earlier this year with Crysis 2, one of the most technologically advanc...

9 September 2011
04:28 GMT

CryEngine 3 SDK Gets More than 100,000 Downloads in Five Days

The Software Development Kit that developer Crytek has been offering on its official website has managed to get more than 100,000 downloads in the five days since it was uploaded, although it's not clear how many developers will actually use it to create actual video games.Crytek allows anyone interested to down...

24 August 2011
13:31 GMT

EA Wants to Have All Games on Steam, Clarifies Crysis 2 Situation

Electronic Arts has clarified its position about how it will treat its newly launched digital distribution platform Origins and rivals like Steam, Direct2Drive, Impulse and GamersGate saying that the publisher will seek to make its games available through as many outlets as possible. David DeMartini, who is the le...

7 July 2011
04:58 GMT

Download Crysis 2 Patch 1.9, DirectX 11 and High Resolution Textures Updates Now

Crysis 2 has just received a brand new patch, taking it to version 1.9, as well as two major updates that bring support for the DirectX 11 rendering software and a high-resolution texture pack. Crysis 2 impressed a lot of people back in March when Crytek, its developer, together with Electronic Arts, its publisher...

28 June 2011
02:20 GMT

Crysis 2 Gets DirectX 11 and High Resolution Texture Patches Next Week

Crysis 2 will finally receive support for DirectX 11 as well as for high resolution textures, as Crytek, the developer of the first person shooter, has pinned a concrete release date on the free updates that include these features.Crysis 2 was a stunning game in terms of graphics, showcasing the power of the new CryE...

23 June 2011
04:00 GMT

Electronic Arts Responds to Crysis 2 Removed from Steam

Crysis 2, the first-person shooter from developer Crytek, a game published by Electronic Arts, has been removed from Steam this week and a lot of industry watchers were quick to speculate that the move was done in order to make the game an exclusive digital offering on the new Origin distribution service from EA.Now ...

16 June 2011
04:41 GMT

Cloud Gaming Is the Future, Crysis Developer Says

Gaming might soon be departing from home consoles or PCs to the cloud, at least according to German developer Crytek, the studio behind the massively successful Crysis series.Cloud gaming is slowly getting off the ground, with two major services, OnLive and Gaikai, offering the ability to play games via an online inf...

15 June 2011
03:30 GMT

Crysis 2 Pulled from Steam, Going Origins Only

Video game publisher has pulled the first-person shooter Crysis 2, developed by Crytek, from sale on the Steam digital distribution service from Valve in a move that is apparently designed to push its own upcoming digital store, Origin.At the moment those who are interested in picking up Crysis 2 and do not want a re...

15 June 2011
03:22 GMT

The Witcher 2 Diary – A Good Reason to Upgrade

When I first began playing The Witcher 2, which we reviewed at length here on Softpedia, I was not playing on a very good machine and I was forced to bring the graphics quality slider back to Medium when I started the game and even then during some character heavy sequences, like going straight through Flotsam, the g...

31 May 2011
18:31 GMT

CryEngine 3 Is Used for Virtual Army Training

The United States Army has announced that it will be using the CryEngine 3 video game engine from developer Crytek to create a simulation called Dismounted Soldier, that will be used to train soldiers on the realities of combat in a virtual manner. CryEngine 3 will be used by Intelligent Decisions, a systems integ...

30 May 2011
07:29 GMT

THQ Sees Itself as Rival to Electronic Arts, Activision Blizzard

Video game publisher THQ might not have the same profile as the big players in the industry, Electronic Arts and Activision Blizzard, but its leader believes that the company has the potential to be one of the leaders of the market. Brian Farell, who is the chief executive officer of THQ, has talked to Industry Game...

18 May 2011
08:34 GMT

Crytek Lays Off Developers in Budapest, Still Working with Kinect

An anonymous source inside developer Crytek has said that the company has fired 30 to 35 people that were working in its Budapest studio after Microsoft Games Studio has made the decision to more development of the game Codename: Kingdoms to the Frankfurt studio of the company. Talking to Gamasutra the source said...

9 May 2011
09:03 GMT

Elder Scrolls V Will Use Some DirectX 11 Features, Not All of Them

One of the biggest releases of the year is the Bethesda created The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, which is set to arrive in November, and the development team has worked hard to reassure gamers that they will be pushing forward the experience both in terms of mechanics and in terms of visuals. But it seems that even th...

20 April 2011
04:55 GMT

Zumba Fitness Stays Ahead in the United Kingdom

Zumba Fitness, the video game from 505 Games that combines strenuous exercise routines with dance moves, has managed the rather surprising feat of holding on to the United Kingdom number one position in the video game sales charts. The fitness-based game has taken advantage of a lull in the big name releases to go o...

19 April 2011
03:18 GMT

Crysis 2 Benefited from Coming to PC as Well as Consoles

Crysis 2, the newest first-person shooter from Crytek, has benefited immensely from arriving on the PC, just like its predecessors, Crysis and Crysis: Warhead, but also on consoles like the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, a first for its developer, Crytek. Crysis 2 was one of the biggest games that appeared last month...

19 April 2011
03:10 GMT

Zumba Fitness Beasts Crysis 2 and LEGO Star Wars to Top UK Chart

Zumba Fitness, the 505 published video game which aims to make its players slimmer and healthier, has managed to top the United Kingdom weekly video game chart, edging out some pretty important titles, like Crysis 2 and the new Tiger Woods golf simulation. Zumba Fitness is the latest in a wave of sports-based titles...

12 April 2011
03:17 GMT

Crysis 2 DirectX 11 Patch to Be Released Soon

Crytek, the developer behind the most recent Crysis 2, has announced that it will be launching a special patch for the game that will give it support for the new DirectX 11 technology. Crysis 2 was eagerly awaited by a huge amount of fans, who couldn't wait to see what the German developer could do, especiall...

11 April 2011
04:20 GMT

A Gamer's Week: April 10

The big launch month of March is now behind us, which means that we had time to look a little closer at games like Crysis 2, the shooter from Crytek, for which we have a full Softpedia review and a set of Gamer Diaries, and Shogun 2: Total War, which also has some new Diaries. We also have both an early Quick Look a...

10 April 2011
10:31 GMT

Weekend Reading: The Ongoing Game Length Debate

Before the weekend, we published a new piece of information about id Software's Rage, which said that the combination between a first-person shooter, a racing game and a role-playing game, would take around 15 hours to complete. As you can imagine, the feelings are mixed and have once again contributed to the...

9 April 2011
10:01 GMT

EndWeekGame: April 8

Andrei Dumitrescu: The majority of my weekend will be spent playing Need for Speed: Shift 2 Unleashed with a rather peculiar mix of excitement and frustration, the feeling that this title seems to elicit in me most of the time. The game is great, make no mistake, especially for those who have a medium-sized obsessio...

8 April 2011
16:31 GMT

Crysis 2 Diary - PC Gaming, DirectX 11 And Why Crytek Should Focus on Consoles

Crysis 2 is a great title, with its top notch gameplay and gorgeous graphics compensating for its lackluster story.Sadly, even if it's quite an impressive game, it received quite a lot of critiques from PC gamers, who felt that Crytek betrayed them in multiple ways.The first was because Crysis 2 would appear on ...

8 April 2011
10:40 GMT

Crysis 2 Diary - The Complicated Story

Crysis 2 is a very good game, which is why we gave it an impressive 9/10 in our review that appeared yesterday. The gameplay manages to cater to a lot of tastes, with the upgraded nanosuit and the array of weapons drawing in quite a lot of players. Sadly, the game's biggest flaw is its story, which, althou...

7 April 2011
09:10 GMT

Crysis 2 Diary - The Useless Variety of Weapons

Crysis 2 is quite a fun game, no matter the type of player you may be, accommodating styles like the stealthy sniper that chooses vantage points and picks off enemies one by one, or the armored brute, who just leaps into the middle of firefights and starts smashing all of his enemies. Part of this flexibility can ...

6 April 2011
09:15 GMT

Crysis 2 Review

When it comes to beautiful looking games, few developers can come close to the pedigree of German company Crytek, which is responsible for titles like the original Far Cry, Crysis or Crysis: Warhead.Now, the studio is back, with Crysis 2, the next installment in its first-person shooter, running on the brand new CryE...

6 April 2011
07:00 GMT

Crysis 2 Diary - The Nanosuit 2.0 and Its Addictive Nature

We already established the fact that Crysis 2 allows for different types of players to have fun in its single-player and even in the multiplayer mode, going for strategies like the invisible predator or armored tank, so we're now talking about the new nanosuit worn by the playable characters and how its use beco...

5 April 2011
08:40 GMT

Crysis 2 Keeps United Kingdom Video Game Crown

Crysis 2, the Nanosuit-powered first-person shooter from Crytek, has managed to keep the number one position in the United Kingdom video game chart, with gamers attracted by the impressive graphics of the New York-based adventure and by the solid shooter mechanics. Second place has unexpectedly gone to Zumba Fitne...

5 April 2011
02:57 GMT

Crysis 2 Diary: Playing as an Armored Tank

Crysis 2 has been launched for a couple of weeks now and was the most successful release of the year for its publisher, Electronic Arts, largely because it accommodates many different play styles coming from many different gamers. We already talked about my favorite, the invisible predator one, where you use the g...

4 April 2011
09:50 GMT

A Gamer's Week: April 3

Another week has passed and we have a new series of diaries, linked to Total War: Shogun 2, the strategy game from SEGA and The Creative Assembly, and Crysis 2, from Crytek and Electronic Arts.We also have a Weekend Reading feature that talks about how the Dragon Age series, no matter how it might progress, needs to ...

3 April 2011
09:31 GMT

EndWeekGame: April 1

Andrei Dumitrescu: It might be time to create a well-designed game-related elaborate joke, but this weekend I plan to ditch modern video games altogether and go back to some older releases for some modding-powered video gaming. My first stop is Middle Earth during the War of the Ring, with Sauron and his allies po...

1 April 2011
16:11 GMT

Crysis 2 Diary - Playing as an Invisible Predator

Crysis 2 has been out for a week now and even if there are some issues with its gameplay, specifically its multiplayer mode, you can still enjoy the pretty long single-player campaign. While the story is a bit too convoluted for its own good, the gameplay is what actually matters, and Crysis 2 allows you to go thr...

1 April 2011
08:20 GMT

New Crysis 2 Update Now Available, Fixes Security Problems

Crysis 2 has just received a new security update, which will be automatically downloaded when you start up the game and are connected to the Internet. Crysis 2 has been out for a week now and it has already received a hefty patch, which aimed at fixing some of the big issues encountered by players, especially on t...

1 April 2011
03:40 GMT

Crysis 2 Cheaters Will Be Eliminated, Crytek Promises

Crytek, the developer of the recently released Crysis 2, has promised that it will eliminate all of the cheaters currently running amok in the game's online mode. Crysis 2 was launched last week and it seems that there were quite a few problems with it, prompting the developer to release a patch before the we...

31 March 2011
03:40 GMT

New Crysis 2 Patch Arrives This Week

Crytek, the developer of Crysis 2, which was launched last week, has confirmed that a second update will arrive this week in order to solve all of the issues encountered by players both on the PC and on consoles like the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360. Barely has Crysis 2 been released by Crytek and Electronic Arts, it...

29 March 2011
03:50 GMT

Quick Look: Crysis 2

The original Crysis and its spinoff, Crysis: Warhead, have become somewhat legendary in PC gaming, as the titles developed by Crytek couldn't be played properly on even the most powerful computers those days. Now, the studio is at it again, with Crysis 2, running on its all-new CryEngine 3 technology, that prom...

25 March 2011
18:21 GMT

EndWeekGame: March 25

Andrei Dumitrescu: It's been quite a few good weeks for my favorite types of games and I plan to spend more time with both Dragon Age 2 and Total War: Shogun 2 during this weekend. Dragon Age 2 has initially been a bit of a disappointment for me, but I have been going through a second and third playthrough, u...

25 March 2011
17:41 GMT

Crysis 2 Gets First Patch, No More Auto Aiming

Crysis 2 is now out in the United States and the developer Crytek that has worked on the game has already launched a patch for it, with the biggest change introduced being that the PC version now had no trace of an auto aim feature.This is the full list of fixes for the first Crysis 2 patch:- the server browser now s...

23 March 2011
06:34 GMT

EVGA Launches Crysis 2 Version of the GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Although it turned out to be just a console port and not a fully-fledged PC title, Crysis 2 is nonetheless one of the most expected games of this year, and to celebrate its launch EVGA has announced a special edition GeForce GTX 560 Ti that comes bundled with Crytek's latest title as well as with some nice extra...

23 March 2011
04:11 GMT

Crysis 2 Multiplayer Demo Impressions

The Crysis 2 Multiplayer Demo for the PC arrived yesterday, but due to technical issues and because the MyCrysis website registration was down, I wasn't able to play it until today. If you want a one-word description for the multiplayer of Crysis 2, it's 'paranoia', because you never know from ...

2 March 2011
07:25 GMT

Crysis 2 Multiplayer PS3 Demo Out on March 15, PC Demo Now Playable

PlayStation 3 owners will finally receive a playable Crysis 2 multiplayer demo two weeks from now, just as Xbox 360 and PC users are already experiencing the new first-person shooter on their platforms. Crysis 2 is nearing its release date, at the end of the month, so Crytek wants to show gamers on all platforms j...

2 March 2011
03:55 GMT

Download Crysis 2 Multiplayer PC Demo

Crysis 2 has just received its multiplayer demo on the PC platform, after previously being exclusive on the Xbox 360 console. Crytek is getting ready to launch Crysis 2 at the end of the month, but, in order to hype it up, it's been rolling out multiplayer demos for the game. We already saw one launched on...

1 March 2011
02:50 GMT

Crysis 2 Won't Have Co-Op, Will Still Impress Gamers

Crysis 2 won't have a cooperative online mode, but will still impress players through its "beefy" campaign and the top-notch multiplayer, according to Crytek, its developer. Crysis 2 is one of the biggest first-person shooters to appear at the beginning of the year, so its development studio, Crytek, is makin...

24 February 2011
17:21 GMT

Crysis 2 Leak Was an Incomplete Build Filled with Problems

Crytek, the company behind the upcoming Crysis 2 first-person shooter, has talked about the big leak that happened last week, when a build of the game appeared onto torrent sites, with over a month before the title's actual release. PC pirates had a field day, as even if the build of the game was incomplete, ...

22 February 2011
04:25 GMT

Piracy Impact Is Smaller Than in the Past, Says PC Gaming Alliance Leader

The impact of piracy is smaller at the moment than at some points in the history of gaming, says the leader of the PC Gaming Alliance, and both publishers and developers are creating new ways of persuading players to buy original games.Speaking to Gamasutra as part of a bigger interview Matt Ployhar, who is the new p...

21 February 2011
06:54 GMT

Crysis 2 Leak Doesn't Mean Crytek Will Abandon the PC Platform

The recent leak of an incomplete build of Crysis 2 onto torrent sites won't affect the dedication of its developer, Crytek to the PC platform, at least according to an official statement from studio boss Cevat Yerli. Crysis 2 is set to be one of the most important games of the year, once again trying to showc...

17 February 2011
18:01 GMT

Multiplayer Crysis 2 Demo Arrives on March 1

Crytek, the developer, and Electronic Arts, the publisher, have announced that a multiplayer-focused demo version for their upcoming first-person shooter Crysis 2 will be released on the PC on March 1, allowing players to see what the second game in the series offers and how the all-new multiplayer mode can keep them...

17 February 2011
05:46 GMT


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