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All Crysis Needed Was A Flux Capacitor

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:30:00 +0000

Crysis and Back to the Future. Together. No hoverboards or locomotives, sadly, but that is a fully-functioning DeLorean. And by fully, I mean fully.

This may be the best thing you will ever see.

DeLorean Time Machine [Crysis, thanks an1sh!]

Crysis 2 Teaser Trailers

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:30:00 +0000

Crytek feel that it’s time to start teasing Crysis 2. But not with cutscenes, or gameplay. No, they figured you’d enjoy some commercials for the game’s new Nanosuit instead.

CryEngine 3, 360 Vs PS3

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:30:00 +0000

Here’s some rough, shaky footage of Crytek’s CryEngune 3 running on the PS3 and the Xbox 360 at the same time. PS3 is on the left, Xbox 360 on the right. Can you spot the difference? No, me neither.

Off Screen: CryEngine3 PS3 Next to Xbox 360 [GameVideos]

Crysis 2 Is Announced, Multi-Platform

Brian Ashcraft — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:30:00 +0000

Crysis, the gorgeous sci-fi shooter from German developer Crytek Frankfurt, is a PC game. So is its sequel, Crysis 2 — that, and an Xbox 360 and a PS3 game.

The game is the second entry in the planned Crysis triology and will be published by EA. “The development of Crysis 2 marks a major stepping stone for our studio,” said Cevat Yerli, CEO and President of Crytek. “This is not only the next game in the Crysis franchise, it’s the first title we are developing for consoles and the first title being built on CryENGINE 3.”

No word on a release date.

A $US500 PC That Can Kick Crysis’ Ass

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:00:00 +0000

Even though the game came out in 2007, people still go all “boo hoo” over Crysis’ graphics settings. Say they’re prohibitive, use them as a benchmark. Well, you can murder those settings for $US500.

At least, you can according to Maximum PC, who cobbled together the following rig for $US509 (a bit over, we know, but close enough):

Motherboard: MSI P43 Neo3-F LGA 775
CPU: Intel Pentium E5200
Videocard: Powercolor AX4870 512MB
RAM: Crucial 2GB DDR2/800
Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar SE WD3200AAJS
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-S223F
Case + Power Supply: Rosewill TU-155 II 500 Black

This system can not only play Crysis, but can – according to MPC’s testing – play it at 1900×1200 at 36 frames per second on “high” settings (they couldn’t try out anything higher, since the cheap rig had XP, which doesn’t natively support Crysis’ fancy DX10 graphic options)

If you’re looking for an all-new PC, it’s a little misleading, as it’s leaving out the cost of stuff like a monitor, but if you’re just after an upgrade, this shows that even in these dark economic times you can scrounge together an impressive gaming rig on the cheap.

Build a Kick-Ass $US500 Gaming PC, Play Crysis at 40FPS! [Maximum PC]

First Footage Of New Crytek Engine

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:00:00 +0000

Earlier in the month, Crysis developers Crytek announced the latest version of their in-house game engine, CryENGINE 3. With no footage. They were saving that for today.

Like those Crysis bits? Bet your wallet doesn’t.

PC Gaming Getting New Crytek Engine (Time To Upgrade)

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:30:00 +0000

Still can’t run Crysis at full settings? You’re far from alone. You’re also about to be left in technology’s dust, as developers Crytek have announced a new game engine.

The successor to the company’s current engine, CryENGINE 2 has been dubbed – wait for it – CryENGINE 3, and settles our questions over what that new logo was for. It also boasts that it’s not only ready for the current generation of hardware – including, for the first time, PS3 & 360 – but the next generation as well, boasting of “scalable computation and graphics for all major upcoming platforms”.

Sounds neat. Also sounds, knowing Crytek’s track record for ridiculously inaccessible graphics settings, entirely plausible.

No pics or demo reels just yet; we’ll have to wait until GDC in a couple of weeks for those.

Crytek Buys Free Radical

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:40:56 +0000

Timesplitters and Haze developer Free Radical Design has found financial sanctuary in German developer Crytek, who is reported to have purchased the struggling Nottingham, UK dev for an undisclosed amount.

According to 1UP, Free Radical scriptwriter Rob Yescombe confirmed the purchase of Free Radical by the developers of Far Cry and Crysis, saying that the decade-old company “is now out of the woods.”

Free Radical closed its doors in December, rather surprisingly to some, as employees showed up to locked doors and subsequent mass “redundancies.”

The studio’s closure led to details on two of its projects, Star Wars Battlefront III and TimeSplitters 4, being leaked far and wide.

We just hope that the company is truly out of the woods. And by that, we mean having foregone any delusions of a Haze sequel.

Crytek Purchases Free Radical, Says Haze Scriptwriter [1UP]

So Which Is Faster: XP, Vista Or Windows 7?

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:30:00 +0000

Windows 7 is out and up for download, provided you’re OK with using a beta operating system. It promises a raft of improvements over Windows Vista, but how’s it shaping up for games?

FiringSquad have taken a look at how it runs across two systems: a mid-spec one (AMD Athlon X2 5000+ Black Edition) and a high-end machine (Intel Core i7 965 Extreme Edition). While the results are worth a look at, it’s worth remembering, remembering then remembering again that Windows 7 is still in beta. So there’s room for improvement.

Anyway, that caveat out of the way, above are some of the results more relevant to you, the game-playing public.

More detailed break-downs – including Crysis at DirectX 10 – below.

Windows 7 Beta Gaming Performance: XP vs Vista vs 7 [FiringSquad, via Evil Avatar]

‘World’s Fastest PC’ Runs Crysis At 60FPS

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:30:00 +0000

Give a big, warm welcome to the Falcon Northwest Mach V! Cnet reckon, based on tests, that it’s the fastest consumer PC on the planet. It’s so fast, in fact, that it’s the first off-the-shelf PC they (or we) have seen that can run Crysis at 60FPS. On its highest settings. Of course, it had want to run Crysis at 60FPS, since it costs $US8000. That’s the kind of price bracket where we’d joke that the metallic red paint job costs an extra $500 and…oh, the metallic red paint job really does cost an extra $500.

Falcon Northwest Mach V: Fastest PC Yet Runs Crysis at 60FPS [Gizmodo]