2. Crytek’s company headquarters are located in Frankfurt am Main
(Germany), with additional studios based in Kiev (Ukraine), Budapest
(Hungary), Sofia (Bulgaria), Seoul (South Korea), Nottingham (UK) and
Shanghai (China). Since being founded by three brothers Avni, Cevat and
Faruk Yerli in 1999, Crytek has consistently been recognized for
excellence in its field .
3. Crytek has partnerships with Electronic
Arts, Ubisoft, THQ, NVIDIA, INTEL,AMD, FMOD, S
caleform, Xoreax Software, SparkasseCoburg, and
Rating Services.
The company is best known for developing the
game Far Cry and the CryEngine that the game uses,
and later Crysis and CryEngine 2. Their most recent
major product is Crysis 2 and its supporting
CryEngine 3 .
4. Crytek was founded by the Turkish Yerli brothers in
1999 in Coburg, Germany. Crytek first attracted
publicity at the 2000 ECTS with their tech demo at
the NVIDIA booth. For several years thereafter, they
released numerous demos of a game called X-Isle,
which ultimately evolved into Far Cry. On May 2,
2002, Crytek announced the game
engine CryEngine.
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6. On January 23, 2006, Crytek announced the development
of Crysis, promising that it would be an original first person
shooter with a new kind of gameplay challenge requiring
"adaptive tactics".[The game later won several Best PC Game
awards from E3 and Games Convention. In April 2006, Crytek
moved to new offices in Frankfurt.
The first public demonstration of Crytek's CryEngine 2 was on
January 23, 2007, one year after Crysis was announced. It has
been licensed by many companies such asAvatar
Reality , WeMade Entertaintment, Entrapia Universe,
XLGames, Reloaded Studios, 1st Educational Institution, and
Games Academy GmbH.
On September 12, 2008, an expansion
of Crysis entitled Crysis Warhead was released as a PC-
exclusive game.
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8. It is not only used throughout the video games
industry, but also for applications in fields ranging
from architecture, training and simulation to
learning and development. Some of the developers
who use Crytek’s CryENGINE® include Tencent
Games, Giant, NCSoft, Deutsche Telekom, Sohu
ChangYou Gaming, XL Games and Norman Foster
Design. In October 2009, Crytek launched the third
version of CryENGINE®; the first game
development platform for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3,
MMO, DX9/DX10/ DX11 that is also truly next-gen
ready.
9. 2011 Develop Award for Best Independent Studio and a
2010 Red Dot Design Award. 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)
and Crysis® 2 (awarded Best Shooter of E3 2010 and
Gamescom 2010).
Crytek’s proprietary CryENGINE® technology was
awarded “Best Simulation in Real Time” at the Imagina
Awards 2010 and ”Most Innovative Technology” at the
European Innovative Game’s Awards.
