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Jurassic Dream – A Jurassic Park Experience Made in CryEngine
I think many would agree that despite the franchise being over 25-years old now, we have still yet to see a truly great game based on Jurassic Park. Oh sure, we’ve come close on a few occasions. Going way back when, the SNES version of the game was alright, albeit…
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CRYENGINE 5.7 Adds DirectX 12, Vulkan and Ray Tracing
CRYENGINE 5.7 Good news developers, and then I guess it’ll be good news for gamers too, eventually. The next update for CRYENGINE will bring it up to version 5.7. This update will see the full support of both DirectX 12 as well as Vulkan in Sandbox Editor. Furthermore, this will…
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Homefront: The Revolution Hosts Free Weekend Until Dec. 17
Deep Silver‘s Homefront: The Revolution is currently available to try for free from December 14 until December 17, 1PM PST. Homefront: The Revolution is an open-world FPS game where users lead the resistance movement in guerilla warfare versus a well-armed military force. Unlike other free-to-play games this week, Homefront: The…
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Crytek’s Hunt: Showdown Ready to go Alpha
Hunt: Showdown Crytek is currently developing this current title and is currently in early access on steam. But is said to go into closed Alpha this winter. People using PC’s will be able to play Hunt: Showdown during multiple closed Alpha testing phases during this winter period. This news comes…
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Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 Released But Did Not Include Multiplayer Mode
Some players have been waiting to play Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 for months, expecting to be able to shoot it out with other players in its gorgeous CryEngine rendered open-world on launch day but they were in for a surprise to find out upon launch that the multiplayer mode is…
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Chris Roberts Explains Star Citizen Engine Change
The developer of Star Citizen, the vast space exploration sim from the creator of the Wing Commander series, announced a few days ago that the game was ditching CryEngine in favour of Amazon’s Lumberyard engine. Much was made of the timing of that announcement, since the developer of CryEngine, Crytek,…
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Star Citizen Ditches CryEngine for Amazon Lumberyard
Star Citizen, the vast, ambitious space sim from Wing Commander creator Chris Roberts, has abandoned the CryEngine, four years into the game’s development. Instead, the game will now utilise Amazon’s Lumberyard engine, supported by the Amazon Web Services Cloud, Roberts’ Cloud Imperium Games has announced. “We’ve been working with Amazon…
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Crytek Closes Studios – Focuses on Premium IPs and CryEngine
Crytek, which has been stiffing its employees for pay for months, is now laying off staff and closing studios. All but two of the company’s studios are closing, and it will be dropping development of all titles but for its “premium IPs” and its lauded CryEngine toolset. Crytek’s Budapest, Istanbul,…
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Counter-Strike dust2 Map Recreated in CryEngine Looks Incredible
We love our PC games here at eTeknix, and we love it even more when fan made projects like this crop up and inspire us at how diverse and capable the PC gaming community can be. TekVoL has recreated the iconic dust2 map from Counter-Strike in CryEngine, and while it’s…
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Gameplay Video Shows off 27-Minutes of Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3
Are you looking forward to getting into the action in Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3? YouTuber Xboxdynasty has uploaded a 27-minute gameplay video from the game, showing off plenty of action and story, as well as plenty of spoilers, so be warned. The new game features large open world environments, with…
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Star Citizen Flexes Rendering Engine with Next-Gen Faces
Cloud Imperium are working on a masterpiece, where seemingly every detail of their upcoming mega-game Star Citizen is polished to perfection. Of course, this is both a blessing and a curse, as it means the game is in seemingly eternal development. Fortunately, for those of us who are patient, its…
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CryEngine 5.3 and 5.4 Detailed – Vulcan, DX12, mGPUs and More!
CryEngine has long been a poster child for high-end graphics technology, so it comes as little surprise that the next two updates to the legendary game engine will come with support for the latest and greatest tech on the market, and new ways to make the best of it. Crytek…
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CRYENGINE V Delivers Colossal Draw Call Increase With DX12
PC and Xbox One owners are set to experience significant benefits of games using CRYENGINE, with its developer, Crytek, claiming that, when used in combination with Microsoft’s new DirectX 12 (DX12) API, draw calls – effectively, how many objects can be rendered on-screen at once – will be significantly increased.…
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Crytek’s CryEngine Is Now Open Source
Crytek has been facing some troubles over the last few years, but the company’s impressive CryEngine is still being used for a number of very important projects, including Star Citizen and The Climb. However, perhaps some of the most iconic games that used this engine are those belonging to the Crysis…
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Crytek Voices Concerns over Async Compute
With the advent of DirectX 12, both GPU and game developers are slowly learning how to fully exploit the new API, with most – NVIDIA especially – running into problems when trying to implement asynchronous compute. It seems Crytek, developer of the graphical high-water mark CRYENGINE, is also struggling with…
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