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EA and Crytek announced today that a new Crysis 2 multiplayer demo will arrive on PC and Xbox 360 on March 1 with a PS3 demo coming soon.

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Crytek’s Nathan Camarillo has described Crysis 2′s urban jungle setting as written in a “visual language” of “destruction and catastrophe”.

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EA and Crytek released a new video and a couple shots today for Crysis 2, showing of the Nanosuit.

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Word has it Crytek’s started sending out email invitations to the Crysis 2 closed multiplayer beta on Xbox 360.

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Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli has called Crysis 2 a “choreographed sandbox” game, which he said offers “flexibility and intensity”, and makes the game more accessible and cinematic compared to a regular sandbox title.

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EA’s having a Summer Weekend Sale every week on select PC games, and this weekend it’s Crysis and Crysis Warhead.

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Crytek has released a new Crysis 2 trailer, and it’s called Marine Salvage.

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If Crytek and science fiction author Richard Morgan achieve their goals, Crysis 2 will be a “new day” in first-person story-telling, bringing narrative arcs to cities and technology while shunning the now-accepted device of virtual actors speaking lines.

Crytek boss Cevat Yerli has pinned story as one of his sequel’s major boost-points, bringing Morgan in to both write the plot and architect a way forward in environment-led narrative delivery. Games like Uncharted 2, apparently, don’t do “justice” to the concept of story in games. Crysis 2 will. Small beans.

We spoke to Richard twice after Crysis 2′s formal reveal in New York earlier this month, once just after the showing itself and once the following day. Here’s the first bit. Warning: this guy can talk.

[Interview by Patrick Garratt.]

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Big deals over on Steam this weekend.

Crysis and Crysis Warhead are 50 percent off, meaning you’ll pay just around $14.99 for each, and if you get both it will run you around $29.99.

Overlord is 75 percent off, meaning you pay a lousy $1.50 for it, and Overlord II is $7.50. The Raising Hell Expansion is also 75 percent off and costs $2.50, and the Complete Pack will run you $8.75.

QuantZ is also 50 percent off and will cost you $4.99.

Head on over to Steam for your particular region’s price point.

Crysis and Crysis Warhead are now on sales at a 50 percent discount on Steam.

Both were £19.99 each. They’re now £9.99 each.

It’s cheap. You get to shoot stuff. Buy them before they go back up in price at the end of this weekend.

Next weekend, Crytek’s holding another free weekend for Crysis Wars.

Come August 28, players can play the full version of the game online for no cost. Players who have logged online into the game before, will get their CD Keys reactivated for the next free trial.

Crytek has promised more information next week before the weekend trial starts, so in the meantime visit the official site for extra details.

Crysis on consoles was a big obvious, right? And it never happened, right? EA Partners group general manager David Demartini has told Gama console gamers had to wait for the second game thanks to Crytek’s “discipline”.

“Crytek has shown a tremendous amount of discipline, because the simple thing would’ve been to make… compromises and put it on PS3 and 360 before it was industry standard-setting,” said the exec.

“But as a company they have a reputation for not going to a platform just to exploit the platform, but they go to the platform when they have something that’s as good as anything in the industry, if not the best on that platform, so I think what consumers can look forward to is them setting a new bar against any game whatsoever on those platforms.”

Crysis 2 was announced as a cross-platform title at E3. Hit the link to see Cevat Yerli say PS3′s “difficult to program”.

Console versions of Crysis were “literally inevitable,” Crytek boss Cevat Yerli’s told Gamespot. Not even figuratively.

“It’s a question of more than economics,” Yerli said when asked about the reasoning behind Crysis 2′s multi-plat strategy.

“At the end of the day we’re paying salaries and we all have to live, but that’s one side of this job. But most importantly and a bit more tangible to us are the families, the nephews, and sons who ask, ‘Why aren’t you going to consoles?’ It’s kind of like bothering people. We’ve been asked a lot in the last three or four years now, ‘When consoles? When consoles? When consoles?’

“It was literally inevitable that we would bring it.”

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According to this inCrysis report, Crytek’s trademarked the names GFACE, CARVATAR and KINGDOMS.

That’s it. Fingers crossed we’re not going to be playing Crysis: GFACE any time soon.

Thanks, IGN.

OnLive’s shown its Cloud gaming service running in a press conference at GDC, as you can see in the video after the break.

Watch from 16 minutes. One of the founders is seen playing Crysis at 720p on a crap Dell laptop in a live demo.

OnLive will “change the landscape of the games industry,” the press conference began.

We’d just like to see this work when 5 million people are hitting the same game.

Still. Cool. It’s out at the end of this year.

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GamePolitics has learned that Hans-Dieter Schwind, the president of the German Foundation for Crime, wants a ban on violent games after yesterday’s shooting rampage by teenager Tim Kretschmer.

Bavarian interior minister Joachim Herrmann is also demanding discussion on a ban on “so-called killer games” to be renewed, and in Strasbourg, European representatives have voted in a resolution to prevent retailers from selling adult-rated games to minors.

Romandie News is reporting that the European Parliament is contemplating “severe sanctions” towards retailers who sell adult games to minors, or “owners of Internet cafes that allow children to play games unsuitable for their age group”.

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Crytek has announced it will be demonstrating its “all-in-one game development solution,” CryEngine 3, at GDC later this month.

With its engine specifically designed for console, online and MMO development, the firm said it’s ”Next-Gen-Ready” today.

“With CryEngine 3 we are delivering our best game development technology that enables our clients to achieve their vision on current and future platforms to develop games such as MMOs, action games and more”, said Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli.

“Our complete game engine solution enables realtime development, ensures teams are able to maximise their own creativity, saves budget and creates greater gaming experiences. Also with our solution developers can start working on their next generation games today.”

Press release after the jump.

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Crytek now owns all of the rights to Free Radical projects including TimeSplitters, says 1UP.

Free Radical was at work on the shooter franchise when they were bought out, but this doesn’t mean another TimeSplitters game is a given, says managing director Anvi Yerli.

“At this early stage we’re looking into all possibilities, but it’s just too early to say,” he said.

Nor is the company’s internal focus “linked to bringing Crysis to consoles”.

With the merge, the firm has been renamed Crytek UK and plans to rehire some of the 185 staff laid off in December.

Nicely done there.

Do you want to run Crysis with everything turned up at 60 frames a second? Do you shit money? This is your lucky day. This CNET review brings word that the Falcon Northwest Mach V (Intel Core i7-965 Extreme Edition) is the first PC it’s tested to ever, ever, achieve the hitherto unthinkable feat.

At a cost of $8,000.

But who cares? Just keep an image in your mind’s eye of how pretty it looks as you’re being evicted/gang-banged for non-payment of mortgage/drug debt.

From Gizmodo, via Kotaku.

Speaking to Gamespot, Crytek boss Cevat Yerli’s predicted that the next console round will bring a graphical “renaissance”.

“The next graphics breakthrough will come in 2011/12, especially because it will be linked to next-generation consoles,” said the exec.

“I think the PlayStation 4, or the Xbox 720, and the PC generation that equals that will see a renaissance kicking in that will allow us to effectively deliver visuals that will rival offline CGI productions right now. With that, you’ll see a variety of visual styles and identities, as well as techniques used to make more creative images than we have seen today.”

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