Last week, THQ announced that they are working on a sequel to their console FPS title Homefront. The high-profile video game publisher, perhaps most famous for publishing the WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW franchise, has announced that the team developing the new Homefront title is none other than Crytek, developers of the legendary FPS Crysis.

"Selecting Crytek to take Homefront forward underscores our strategy of working with the industry's best talent," said Danny Bilson, EVP Core Games, THQ. "Homefront's unique setting and storyline captivated gamers the world over. With Crytek's industry leading technology and legendary experience in the FPS genre, we're supremely confident that the next Homefront will deliver that AAA-quality experience that players demand."

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Crysis Day on October 26th – Community Note

Greetings Community!
Due to the steady increasing rush on new information about the upcoming Crysis Singleplayer Demo we would like to give out a few additional details that might be interesting for you.

Crysis Singleplayer Demo
The demo is going to be released officially on Friday, October 26th at 1:00PM (GMT+1). It will be exclusively available for those who pre-ordered Crysis for about 24hours via the EA downloader. On Saturday, October 27th at 1:00PM the demo will be put online for download an all public sites, so keep tracking your favourite fan site.

Crysis pre-Demo Party!
Join us to the pre-demo party powered by InCrysis.com. It will occur at 1:00PM GMT (2PM CEST), Friday 26th of October on IRC. You'll need an IRC client or use a web-browser version. For those using a client, connect to "irc.gamesurge.net" and join #inCrysis.

In attendance will be Sebastian Spatzek (QA Manager), Eric Lagel (MP Dev. Manager), Michael Kolkau (Senior MP Level Designer), Chris Auty (Lead MP Game Designer) and Alex Marschal (Community Manager) from Crytek. During the party you'll have the opportunity to put your questions forward to t

Crysis Final System Requirements

Updated - YouGamers visited Crytek to check out their heavily anticipated DX10-showcase title Crysis, courtesy of Electronic Arts. A full preview article on the game is coming soon, but the most important piece of news from the visit is the official word on the final system requirements for Crysis.

Crytek states that the minimum system is as follows, depending on the operating system

Windows XP

Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHz (or similar AMD)

1024MB RAM

a 256MB Shader Model 3.0-compatible video card

12GB disk space

 

Windows Vista

Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz (or similar AMD)

1536MB RAM

a 256MB Shader Model 3.0-compatible video card

12GB disk space

A 256MB SM3.0 card would probably translate to something like an NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT or ATI Radeon X1650 series . According to Crytek, a system meeting the minimum requirements will run the game at 800x600 using low/medium settings.

Recommended setup is:

Windows XP/Vista

Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 or AMD Athlon X2 4400+

2048MB RAM

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB

12GB disk space

Windows XP, using DX9 is limited to "high" graphical settings, while Windows Vista, using DX10, can be set to "very high". According to Crytek the recommended sys

In Crysis, German developer Crytek has one of the most visually stunning show pieces to advertise its CryEngine 2 game engine. However, when compared to Epic Games' widely licensed Unreal Engine 3, CryEngine 2 has found relatively few takers. Currently, only a few non-Crysis projects are using the technology, such as the mystery games being developed at Crytek's Kiev and Budapest studios, as well as a handful of smaller titles such as MindArk's Entropia Universe.

However, that small group grew by one today, as XLGames announced that it will use Crytek's second-generation game engine for its as-yet-unnamed upcoming massively multiplayer online role-playing game. Established in Seoul, South Korea, in 2003, XLGames was founded by former executive VP of development at NCsoft and creator of Lineage Jake Song. No details on the game have yet emerged.

XLGames' upcoming MMORPG won't be the first time Song and other NCsoft alum have worked with Crytek's middleware solution. Previously, the group worked on NCsoft's upcoming fantasy MMORPG Aion: Tower of Eternity, which uses Crytek's original CryEngine. Aion is slated for release in 2008.

Of today's announcement XLGames vice president and tec

Start counting down to one of the year's most highly anticipated first person shooters Electronic Arts has officially announced that Crysis, the this first person shooter game for PC in the works at Crytek, will hit the store shelves across North America and Europe on November 16, 2007 exclusively for the PC. In Crysis, players are outfitted with a revolutionary Nanosuit and an arsenal of fully customizable weapons, giving them a wide array of options not only in approaching the entire game, but every single objective or individual encounter. Crysis will feature a multiplayer mode called PowerStruggle, a unique team-based strategic mode for up to 32 players, where opposing sides battle for control of advanced weaponry and vehicles to overcome their enemies. Press 'read more' for details.