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Crytek will announce a brand new and “absolutely fantastic” brand new project next month, its general manager of games Nick Button-Brown has told CVG.

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Closed beta applications are now being accepted for Warface, Crytek’s free-to-play PC shooter.

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Crytek has lifted the veil off its first mobile project Fibble Flick ‘n’ Roll, a physics-based puzzler, at GDC, according to a Develop report.

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Crytek will demonstrate upgrades to CryEngine 3, including “next-generation DX11 graphics and tools upgrades” at GDC next week along with advancements to the AI System and UI Actions.

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In news sure to astound at least two people, Crytek, a video game developer, is making a video game. An EA job ad found by All Games Beta shows the publisher has signed on the Crysis developer for a new project. Speculation on the new title includes such zingers as “it might be a Crysis title” to “it’ll probably be built on the CryEngine”. Crytek has quite a few irons in the fire at the moment, with Kinect-exclusive Ryse, THQ’s Homefront 2, and the free-to-play Warface, as well as its new social platform GFACE.

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Crytek’s once-mysterious GFACE has resolved into a cross-platform online games platform, with social network and streaming games service.

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Here’s an award Crytek and EA are probably less than happy about.

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Crytek’s Kinect action title Ryse is rumored to be releasing on the next iteration of the Xbox console, missing the 360 all together.

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MechWarrior Online will be built on Crytek’s award-winning CryEngine 3. According to a post on the game’s website, Piranha Bytes president Russ Bullock believes the tech will allow for “a truly unique AAA experience”.

The long-awaited return to a beloved PC gaming franchise was announced at the end of October as a free-to-play MMO mech sim which plays out the series canon in real time conflicts.

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Tony Davis, the director of Crytek gladiator Kinect game Ryse, has joined ngmoco Sweden, GI.Biz is reporting this morning. Davis worked on the original Far Cry and both Crysis games as well as Ryse in his time at Crytek. Also joining him is Vesselin Efremov, an ex artist working for Crytek on an unknown project at its Black Sea studio. It’s the third Crytek member to jump ship to ngmoco Sweden – headed by ex-EA Easy GM Ben Cousins – having already gained ex-senior development director at Crytek, Senta Jakobson.

Carl Jones, director of global business development for CryEngine, has the firm is looking to implement Flash support in the tech and is planning a “truly cross-platform solution” announcement in the foreseeable future.

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The original Crysis has appeared on Games on Demand for Xbox 360 in Europe following a release in the US for 360 and PS3 owners. PSN owners will get it later today, but it’ll set you back £14.99/1600 MS points. The download will come in at a weighty 4.09Gb. Queue it up for your 360 online through here. Watch the launch trailer for it here.

The benchmark beautiful game has arrived on consoles – check out just how good the original Crysis looks in this launch trailer.

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EA’s announced the original Crysis for PSN and Xbox Live Arcade will launch on October 4. The game was announced earlier this month for the platforms, with just a non-specific October release and prices all confirmed. It’ll set you back 1600 MS points on XBLA and £15.99 on PSN.

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Megaton. THQ’s announced this afternoon that Crytek will be handling development for the next Homefront.

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The success of Nintendo’s upcoming Wii U really hinges on how many third-party developers jump in bed with the new console. At this stage, it looks like you can consider Crytek already lining up for the fan-club, with developers reportedly “very happy” with what the hardware can do.

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Following the initial announcement this morning, EA UK’s announced this afternoon that Crysis 1 on PS3 and 360 will be a downloadable release only for PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade.

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The game which set the benchmark for high end PCs for years is finally coming to consoles.

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A sombre shorts today.

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Crytek co-founder Avni Yerli has denied claims of unfair dismissal of staff and crunch periods of up to six months at the company’s Franfkurt offices.

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