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• Crytek clarifies Ryse: Son of Rome minimum and required PC specs

  Apparently the minimum and required PC specs posted on Steam the other day for Ryse: Son of Rome were for 4K gameplay.

• Ryse 2 supposedly canned amid reports of Crytek financial troubles

  Following Cryek’s denials of financial trouble, anonymous sources close to the developer have confirmed there are indeed issues going on inside the studio and have caused the cancellation of a Ryse: Son of Rome follow-up.

• Ryse: Son of Rome - Duel of Fates add-on pack released

  Ryse: Son of Rome has a third downloadable content package available called Duel of Fates. It features two new arena mode “round-to-round maps” and a survival map titled “Island.” Players will also be able to access two new gladiator skins: Glott the barbarian chief, and the game’s protagonist Marius Titus. The DLC is available through […]

• GDC 2014 adds sessions from Crytek, Insomniac, and Sunstone Games

  GDC 2014 organizers have announced Crytek will host a session in which senior rendering engineer Nicolas Schulz will explain how the team optimized Ryse for Xbox One.

• Ryse is "the hot one at the launch prom" thanks to Xbox One, CryEngine's power

  Ryse: Son of Rome developer Crytek has nothing but praise for the Xbox One, both in terms of its power and ease of development.

• Ryse: Son of Rome - let's face it, you've had worse launch day dates

  Xbox One’s cinematic, gore-splattered historical brawler isn’t as brain dead as it’s been made out to be. Brenna takes it out to dinner, but is it marriage material?

• Ryse: Son of Rome screenshots show swordplay, shield bashing

  Ryse: Son of Rome is set to launch alongside Xbox One on November 22, and today, Crytek has released a new batch of screenshots as well as another look at the box art. Gaze upon the lot below.

• Ryse: Son of Rome videos delve into story, moral anecdote of legend

  Ryse: Son of Rome has a couple new videos available over on Gamespot. We won’t embed those here, so you will have to click the link to watch. One details a bit of the game’s story, telling why Marius Titus became such a vengeful man while the other tells the story of Damocles, a figure […]

• Ryse: Son of Rome crunch tweet sparks Twitter furor

  Ryse: Son of Rome is at the centre of a social media storm today thanks to a flippant tweet about development crunch.

• Ryse: Son of Rome - Crytek developed three prototypes before deciding on final version

  Ryse: Son of Rome was originally a first-person Kinect game, and after “toying with various ideas” how to blend the point-of-view “with the potential of Kinect,” Crytek created three different prototypes, with the winner resulting in the game coming to Xbox One at launch. The firm has also released a video documentary and it is […]

• Ryse: Son of Rome microtransactions designed as a convenience, not a "pay to win" scheme

  Ryse: Son of Rome will have microtransactions, but that doesn’t mean players will be able to “pay to win” nor is there anything nefarious hidden within, according to Crytek.

• Ryse: Son of Rome video takes you behind-the-scenes with Crytek

  Crytek has released a behind-the-scenes showing the work going into Ryse: Son of Rome, such as the motion capture techniques. The Xbox One exclusive is slated for release in November.

• Ryse's QTE's extremely rewarding to gamers who master them - Crytek

  Crytek has issued a statement defending Ryse’s controversial quick time event based combat to Mark Serrels of Kotaku AU, who posted some none-too-flattering impressions of the title last week.

• Ryse: Son of Rome confirmed for Xbox One at launch

  Ryse: Son of Rome was confirmed today for Xbox One, it’s the game in the works at Crytek.

• Ryse confirmed as Xbox One title per Crytek website

  Ryse is an Xbox One exclusive, according to an update on Crytek’s website.

• Ryse a major launch title for next generation Xbox - report

  Ryse is a next-generation Xbox launch title according to a report on The Verge.

• Ryse still in development says Crytek, could miss 2013

  Ryse development is “Really shaping up well”, according to Crytek. The game was first revealed at E3 2011 and billed as a big core title for Kinect. It may miss 2013, which suggests that it could be going next-gen.

• Ryse development "moving forward really well," says Crytek

  Ryse development is “moving forward really well,” according to Crytek

• Crytek posts job listing for Ryse multiplayer producer

  Crytek has posted a job listing which states the Ryse team is looking for a multiplayer producer. A resume popped up last month stating the game was headed that direction, suggesting Ruffian was “contracted” to work on that end of the development. Neither Microsoft nor Crytek have said the game will be exclusively single-player, and […]