After the disappointing sales of PC-exclusive FPS Crysis, Crytek president Cevat Yerli has said that his company will no longer make titles exclusive to the PC platform. The main reason? Piracy. Read more…

It almost sounds too good to be true. Almost? It is too good to be true. Could Cry Engine 2 on consoles really look any where near as good as Crysis on the PC? Crytek’s Engine Business Manager, Harald Seeley, states that they expect the console versions to “look like they’re running at high settings, or nearly high settings, on a PC.” *Shock.* Read more…

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been noticing quite a few themes that have been making their way through the industry. Throughout last week at GDC, many of these took center stage in a variety of forms. Today, we examine the state of PC Gaming.

Every year a multitude of publications come out proclaiming “PC gaming is dead! All units bail out!” It’s all getting to be a little ridiculous. Read more…

Thank the lord for creative and entertaining videos like this because they very well may be the only way I’ll be seeing the Crysis game in action for quite some time. My PC would explode if I walked into the room with this game. Anyway, enjoy the very wet musical number after the jump. Read more…

Here sharky sharky…What better way to stop players from going out of bounds and meeting game walls than getting them eaten by a shark. Crysis takes an engaging game world a step further with impressive animation and A.I. Read more…

Here are the top 10 best selling PC games in the US, showing Call of Duty’s dominance over Crysis, perhaps because no one thinks their PC is up to it, and World of Warcraft’s continued flexing of its muscles. Read more…

Want to play Crysis on your Playstation 3? With StreamMyGame you can do just that. Install Linux on your PS3 and start streaming PC games…for free. Read more…

Barrels (or Barrelz as they should be known in the gaming world) are the staple of video games, perhaps even the cliché of video games. Their ability to blow up when shot at has been exploited in video games from the dawn of time, right up to their unlikely implementation in Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune. Read more…

Have you had enough of First Person Shooters? It was such a dominant genre this year that it seemed to define what it meant to be “next-gen.” We’re not quite out of the woods yet, but 2008 promises to bring us a more diverse line-up. What games or concepts will characterize the industry as we move into the second generation proper? Read more…

The notoriously critical UK Magazine has revealed its December edition scores. Another 10 is given, but not to a PS3 or Xbox360 game. Interesting scores this month, with Assassin’s Creed and Mass Effect getting the same score. Find out after the jump. Read more…

Reality, what does the word mean to you? Does it equate to the sum of everything you perceive as living and organic? Or perhaps it’s the quotient of all life’s experiences? Regardless, more often than not, the real world offers an intangible connection that our imaginations do not.

Still every now and again the lines get blurred to the point where it becomes difficult to distinguish reality from fiction. It’s this undefined line that so many developers over the years have strived for, and yet so few have achieved. Read more…

Alas, the moment has arrived, as EA and Crytek have finally announced the minimum and recommended specs for the much anticipated PC FPS. Have at them after the jump. Read more…

Electronic Arts and Crytek announced today that the much anticipated title Crysis will be hitting retail stores in North America and Europe on November 16, 2007 exclusively for the PC. Read more…

EA’s Senior Producer, Dan Blackstone walks us through Crysis.

If you were a PC game which console would you make your way to — The Xbox 360 or the Playstation 3? Let us think about the recent course of events for a moment and examine the facts. Read more…

We had the opportunity to sit down with Crytek’s Community Manager, Alexander Marschal, and EA’s Senior Producer, Dan Blackstone for a hands on demo of the upcoming highly anticipated Crysis PC first person shooter. Read more…

Here is a look at two new trailers from EA Games and Crytek Studios for the upcoming PC game Crysis. The weapons trailer showcases the games arsenal and a unique real time weapon customization feature, while the gameplay montage is set to music as you take on a tank, take out a helicopter, and barely escape a massive landslide. Read more…

The Official Crysis website is now live, and like the game itself, it boldly states that one must “adapt to survive”.

Those doubting the game based on its requirements need to look no further than the home page of the site to understand the logic that must run through the mind of each Crytek developer hard at work on the title. Read more…

Imagine, you hunt down your enemy as he runs rampant through the jungle. How do you find him? In a traditional first person shooter, if you didn’t see him run by you then it won’t be easy.

But what if there was a game that would allow you to see what you could never see before. The moving blades of grass, the branches on the trees swaying from recent contact, and the fresh set of prints in the mud that will ultimately lead you to your prey. It does exist, the engine is CryENGINE 2 and the game is Crysis for the PC.

There there now, you are in the company of friends and there is no shame in crying tears of joy. If it makes you feel better, we will look the other way for a moment. You ready to go on? Great. Read more…

This new five-minute Crysis video featuring Crytek’s CEO and President Cevat Yerli, Nvidia’s EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) Director of Content Management Darryl Still, Intel’s EMEA Global Software Relation Manager Stephane Negre, and Microsoft Vista’s EMEA Group Product Marketing Manager Michael Newey will explain the impact of DirectX 10 and take you deep inside the new and improved Crytek Engine powering the much anticipated Crysis first person shooter.

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