Crytek struggled financially last year and even had problems paying its employees. Several sources have told Kotaku that Amazon has now come in and helped the developer out via a licensing deal that will allow Amazon to use Crytek's game engine, CryEngine. Crytek's...

Crytek (Crysis, Far Cry and Ryse: Son of Rome), have admitted that it's becoming more and more difficult to impress consumers with flashy graphics. In a world of diminishing graphical returns this is perhaps understandable. Nicolas Schulz, principal...

Ryse: Son of Rome, the formerly-exclusive Xbox One launch title has finally gotten a PC release date, according to its listing on Steam. The game is set to be released on October 10th and will include all of the DLC that was released on Xbox One for...

It really seems that the former members of Vigil Games can’t catch a break. After Vigil closed down following THQ’s bankruptcy, many of the staff (including Vigil’s founder, David Adams) joined Crytek USA. Sadly, as we learned last week, the most...

Crytek's Xbox One launch title Ryse: Son of Rome will bring the ancient Roman action to PCs this Fall, the company has announced. The game will be published digitally by Crytek themselves, while Deep Silver will handle publishing duties of the physical...

Things haven’t been going swimmingly for Crytek over the last few months. Some of these troubles include big name employees leaving for other developers and the news that financial difficulties mean they haven’t paid many of their employees for a...

Latest reports state that Crytek's sequel to Ryse: Son of Rome has definitely been cancelled after talks between the company and Microsoft broke down. Microsoft apparently wanted to purchase the exclusive rights to the property, but Crytek didn't agree...

I thought the premise of the original Homefront was quite absurd - North Korea rises to power, conquering Asia and launching an attack on the United States. To its credit, the game took its unrealistic premise seriously and received its fair share of...

According to a handful of sources online, Crytek, the makers of Crysis and the recent Xbox exclusive Ryse, are in financial trouble, with many pundits in the industry mentioning the risk of bankruptcy. Accoring to the reports, Ryse was a 'catastrophe'...

Chris Charla, Microsoft's Director of ID@Xbox, has written up a post on the Xbox Wire detailing the indie developers Microsoft are partnering with to bring indie titles to the Xbox One. Following criticism that the platform was less welcoming to indie...