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The Cryengine 3 SDK is proving hugly popular with developers, clocking up 100,000 downloads in just five days.

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For those that fancy themselves as sculptors of the future, Crytek’s world-building game engine is available now for free. Unreal.

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Crytek promised some unusual CryEngine licensee announcements, and this online golf game certainly delivers on that.

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Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli has flatly dismissed competitors, saying CryEngine 3 is the best engine available, will soon be available on every platform.

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We’ll soon see a number of CryEngine 3 titles in different genres, according to CryEngine’s director of global business development, Carl Jones.

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Good news for independent and up-and-coming developers, as a pair of software development kits go public.

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A report has surfaced stating that the successor to Xbox 360 will be shown at E3 next year with Timesplitters 4 as one of its launch titles.

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American tax dollars at work: The US military us spending $57 million on “the most realistic military simulator ever developed,” using Crytek’s CryEngine 3.

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Crytek has announced that within the past 12 months, over 250 universities around the globe signed up for the firm’s free CryEngine 3 educational license.

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Crytek co-founder Anvi Yerli has said the firm plans to release a development kit for CryEngine.

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After Epic showed off its next-gen look at Unreal Engine 3 tech at GDC last week, Crytek hit back with a look at the latest iteration of CryEngine 3. It’s pretty amazing stuff, truth be told. Watch the video below, via RPS. GT also has an interview with Crytek’s Sean Tracey about the tech: that’s down there too.

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Crytek has boasted that no other current game engine has the grunt to power a game like Crysis 2, and that CryEngine 3 could be used to build “pretty much any other game” from the studio’s competitors.

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In what must be the umpteenth studio opening since the demise of Swedish developer GRIN last year, former staff have set up “Whiteout”.

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Epic president Mike Capps has said that he’s a bit curious as to why Crytek’s CryEngine 3 is being considered a crossplatform engine when the company has yet to release a game on consoles.

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Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli has revealed that the developer has plans to develop a free-to-use CryEngine 3 for developers, modders and more.

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Bloody hell. EG just posted a new demo video of CryEngine 3 running on 360 and PS3, as well as showing some completely frigging bonkers real-time visuals and physics – must-watch.

It’s got “next gen ready” stamped all over it. It’s not hard to see why, frankly.

“With CryEngine 3 we are releasing the best development solution available today and tomorrow,” said CryTek boss Cevat Yerli.

“With its scalable graphics and computation it is Next Gen ready and with new features like CryEngine 3 Live Create the best choice for game developers and companies developing serious games applications alike. It is the only game engine solution that enables real-time development.”

Hit it.

Crytek’s been showing a demo of CryEngine 3 for the Playstation 3 at GamesCom in Cologne, and doesn’t it look good.

Just think Radiohead, this is what you’ll be looking at when you play Crysis 2 next year.

Catch a off-screen demonstration of it over at GameVideos.

During the SIGGRAPH 2009 conference in New Orleans, Crytek demoed the CryEngine 3 engine.

The video posted after the break, courtesy of Kotaku, shows off the lighting effects that can be pulled off using the engine.

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Free Radical’s Karl Hilton has told Develop that Haze “had a lot of development issues which meant it wasn’t the game it should have been,” and admitted that the teams problems getting the game to run on PS3.

“A lot of them were technical issues,” he told the site. “The PS3 is a powerful machine but a difficult one to get the best out of. We spent more time trying get the game running properly and less time to design the game properly.”

After going into administration and being brought into the Crytek fold, Free Radical became Crytek UK and with access to CryEngine 3 the team’s PS3 woes are behind them thanks to the engine’s toolset.

“I don’t think we’ve seen the best out of the PS3 at all,” said Hilton, “and I definitely think one of the best things about Crytek and the CryEngine is that we’re now in the best position to get the most out of the hardware.”

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