Crytek has elected to close five of its studios following financial hardship. The company will shutter its offices in Hungary, Bulgaria, South Korea, China and Turkey. This news follows multiple reports of employees seeing either late payment or not being paid for months at a time. The company did offer that they aim to “secure jobs and to ensure a smooth transition and stable future”...
Over the last six months or so, developer Crytek has had a hard time paying its employees. Paychecks have been delayed by weeks, according to some employees, while other say that they haven't been paid in two months. This comes from sources like developers posting on Reddit anonymously, speaking with outlets like Polygon and hitting Twitter. One such anonymous employee created a...
Crytek, makers of Crysis and the Crytek Engine, brought a special tech demo with them to GDC a month or so ago. This was a virtual reality build of a “game” they’re calling Back to Dinosaur Island. We throw game in quotes because this isn’t much more than a tech demo at this point. It has a title, there’s a bit of a narrative here and you can interact with it, but that’s about as far...
Remember Homefront? The exceptionally hyped shooter published by THQ in 2011, and it received a harsh critical lashing amongst a fanbase that defended it despite its shortcomings. When THQ went bankrupt, publisher Deep Silver swooped in and snapped up the Homefront license for its own use. Crytek, the same studio behind the likes of Crysis, went to work on a new entry in the series....
I had called Darksiders to be one of the hottest commodities available during the great THQ auction which occurred last month, and I predicted it to fly off the shelf at a high price. However, I must have been the only one, considering how Vigil Games was shelved and the IP was scrapped for financing. It appears Crytek, the creator of many high end shooters such as the Crysis series,...
Now that the dust has settled on THQ's breakup and subsequent auction, we have a pretty clear image of where each franchise did (or didn't) land. We're breaking down where each of the studios and their franchises went, and how much they were purchased for. Relic goes to Sega for $26.6 million. Relic is the studio responsible for the Company of Heroes franchise. Company of Heroes 2...
Early this morning, EA took the wraps off of their highly anticipated Crytek developed shooter, Crysis 3, via press release. Players will yet again take on the streets of New York City as Prophet in the year 2047. They'll be fighting to take back the city from the corrupt Cell Corporation after learning the motive behind building the quarantined Nanodomes. Prophet will be equipped with...
When the original Crysis was introduced as a technical showcase, the response from PC gamers was overwhelmingly positive. Many spent countless hours tweaking the title's graphics settings, ultimately testing them to push their hardware to the limit. With the release of Crysis 2, developer Crytek is attempting to elicit a similar response, but this time on multiple platforms. Will the...