Crytek Announces the Arrival of the New CRYENGINE® (BILD)

Frankfurt am Main (Germany) (ots) -

Engine licensees will benefit from new features and support, while
the CRYENGINE® Free SDK gets a major update

Crytek have ushered in a new era for their state-of-the-art
CRYENGINE technology, with the launch of the new CRYENGINE; an
ever-evolving technology service, with always up to date access to
the latest features in CRYENGINE for commercial game licensees.

CRYENGINE users will also benefit from the coming together of
Crytek's Engine Licensing and Research & Development teams; a move
designed to double the level of one-to-one care game licensees can
tap into, in essence offering Crytek's R&D as a service for
developers using the new CRYENGINE.

On top of these changes, the new CRYENGINE supports development on
current and next generation consoles (Xbox One, PlayStation®4, and
WiiU[TM]), alongside PC, with further platforms to be added in the
near future.

In line with the new services, the all-in-one development solution
will no longer be identified by version numbers; reflecting the fact
that constant updates and upgrades are always being applied to keep
CRYENGINE at the forefront of its field.

Areil Cai, Director of Business Development - CRYENGINE said:
"Supplying an engine is not about delivering a static piece of
software. It's about Crytek being an R&D team for our game licensees;
providing the latest, greatest technology we can, all the time. As an
industry, we're all looking to deliver games as a service now - and
we feel the same approach can be taken with game engines. Today's
announcement reflects this progress, as well as our ongoing
commitment to making sure CRYENGINE® licensees always stay well ahead
of the game."

Also commenting on Crytek's announcement, Carl Jones, Business
Development Director at Crytek, said: "Since CryENGINE 3 was launched
in 2009, we've dramatically changed the engine so many times, with so
many major new features, it's not the same engine anymore. We have
revolutionised many parts of the engine: we have overhauled our
entire lighting system, built movie quality character rendering and
animation solutions, vastly improved the speed and effectiveness of
our Sandbox editor, and even our rendering has changed with
tessellation, pixel accurate displacement mapping and now physical
based rendering; all of this while maintaining our first principal:
that making games should be real-time, all the time. CRYENGINE is a
new engine from Crytek - and it always will be!"

This week also sees a major update to Crytek's free CRYENGINE®
SDK; granting non-commercial users access to a raft of the new
features that recently helped to make Crysis 3 a visual benchmark for
gaming. It is two years since the launch of the free CRYENGINE® SDK.
In that time, the engine has been downloaded over five million times
and is used for non-commercial projects every day by a constantly
growing community and more than 400 universities. The update to the
free SDK will take user feedback on board and remove some
restrictions, which prevented users from working offline.

These changes to the CRYENGINE service are being marked with a new
website which can be seen at www.cryengine.com. Over time, the site
will grow to offer new options for game developers, and will
ultimately become the central hub for all official CRYENGINE content
online.

About Crytek

Crytek GmbH ("Crytek") is an independent company at the forefront
of the interactive entertainment industry, and is dedicated to
pushing the boundaries of gaming by creating standout experiences for
Xbox 360, PlayStation®3, PC, mobile devices and games-as-service
using their cutting-edge 3D-Game-Technology, CRYENGINE®.

The company's headquarters are in Frankfurt am Main (Germany).
Crytek also has studios in Kiev (Ukraine), Budapest (Hungary), Sofia
(Bulgaria), Seoul (South Korea), Nottingham (UK), Shanghai (China),
Istanbul (Turkey) and Austin (USA).

Since its foundation in 1999, Crytek has consistently been
recognized for excellence in its field, earning accolades such as the
2011 Develop Award for Best Independent Studio, and two Red Dot
Design Awards (in 2010 and 2013). Its multi-award winning games
include Far Cry®, Crysis® (awarded best PC Game of E3 2007 and Best
Technology at the 2008 Game Developers Choice Awards), Crysis
Warhead® (awarded Best Graphics Technology at IGN Best of 2008
Awards), Crysis®2 (awarded Best Shooter of E3 2010 and Gamescom
2010), Crysis®3 and Warface (awarded Best Social/Casual/Online Game
of Gamescom 2012). For more information, please visit www.crytek.com.

Contact:
Jens Schaefer
Head of PR
jens@crytek.com
Phone: +496921977661071