London (England) January 18, 2013 – A project encouraging students to create ground-breaking interactive environments launched today as part of a joint venture between Crytek, The British Library and Nottingham’s GameCity festival.

The Off the Map challenge invites students from participating colleges and universities to draw inspiration from British Library maps and then turn that inspiration into interactive environments using Crytek’s state-of-the-art CryENGINE^® technology. Later this year, a panel of judges will select stand-out Off the Map projects to be showcased at Nottingham’s GameCity 8 festival and beyond.

Maps for the competition will be carefully selected from the British Library’s world-famous cartographic collections, and could depict anything from London in the aftermath of the Great Fire to some of literature’s best-known fantasy worlds. Students will be encouraged to respond to their allocated map by developing an interactive environment that places a special emphasis on imagination and pushes the boundaries of traditional game design.

Trion Worlds, the leading publisher and developer of premium games for the connected era, today kicks off the closed beta for Warface, the upcoming free-to-play shooter, in cooperation with  renowned developer and co-publisher Crytek GmbH (Crytek). Warface will be accessed through GFACE®, Crytek’s social entertainment platform that is designed to enable its users to play games together live and to discover and share entertainment content with friends. The Warface beta servers are scheduled to be open from January 17 at 9:00am PST / 5pm GMT until the official Warface launch in Spring 2013.

Crytek GmbH today announced the official opening of Crytek Istanbul, the eighth addition to their worldwide family of studios. The official launch of Crytek Istanbul took place at the city’s Çırağan Palace, with Turkey’s Minister of Science, Industry and Technology, Nihat Ergün, in attendence to welcome the announcement.

Supporting the growth of Crytek’s free-to-play business, Crytek Istanbul will focus their energy on Crytek’s Warface and GFACE brands, as well as overseeing the growth of the CryENGINE^® business in Turkey, and the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region.

Das mehrfach ausgezeichnete Studio Crytek entwickelt das exklusive Xbox One Game Ryse: Son of Rome, welches eine Geschichte von Heldentum, Brutalität und glorreichen Schlachten erzählt. Es ist die mitreißende Geschichte des furchtlosen römischen Soldaten Marius Titus, der Vergeltung für den Tod seiner Familie sucht und seine Armee anführt, um das Römische Reich zu retten. Ryse: Son of Rome spielt im alten Rom und bringt Spielern die Intensität der römischen Kriegsführung bis ins kleinste Detail nahe.

Ryse: Son of Rome erzählt die Geschichte von Marius Titus, der mit ansehen muss, wie seine Familie von Barbaren getötet wird. Marius sinnt auf Rache und wird Soldat der römischen Armee in Britannien, wo er schnell zum General aufsteigt. Während sein Krieg gegen die Barbaren eskaliert, zeigt sich seine Bestimmung: Um Rache zu nehmen, muss er nach Rom zurückkehren.

Entdecken Sie das Römische Reich in atemberaubender Detailfülle, von den nördlichen Grenzen Britanniens bis hin zum Kolosseum. Die Kriegsführung im römischen Zeitalter wurde in absolute brillanter Grafik zum Leben erweckt, dank der Sie im Nahkampf sogar den Gesichtsausdruck Ihrer Gegner erkennen.

Im Onlinemultiplayer-Modus lernt Ryse die brutale Welt der Gladiatoren kennen. Im Kolosseum kämpfen Sie Seite an Seite mit Freunden in dynamischen Umgebungen vor zehntausenden Zuschauern.

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Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA) and award-winning developer Crytek GmbH today announced a creative partnership with renowned filmmaker Albert Hughes to produce an online video series inspired by the upcoming sandbox shooter, Crysis 3. Entitled, “The 7 Wonders of Crysis 3”, this cinematic series will set the stage for this latest installment in the Crysis series and introduce weapons, enemies, and gameplay features new to the franchise. These cinematic shorts will also showcase the stunning visuals, dynamic environments of the urban rainforest and intense adaptive warfare fans can expect when Crysis 3 ships on February 19, 2013 in North America and on February 21 in Europe.   

“When EA and Crytek approached me about being involved in creating ‘The 7 Wonders of Crysis 3’ video series, I liked the idea of creating emotional stories using only computer generated images,” stated Albert Hughes. “The challenge of producing something intensely human without ever seeing a human on screen was incredibly compelling, and the technology of the CryENGINE that Crytek developed enabled me to do that and venture into a completely unique medium of storytelling.”

At 20 years old, filmmaker Albert Hughes shot to stardom when he and his twin brother, Allen, wrote and directed the seminal film, Menace II Society. Albert then went on to co-direct such critically-acclaimed films including Dead Presidents, From Hell and Book of Eli. For “The 7 Wonders of Crysis 3” video series, Albert was intimately involved with the development team at Crytek, writing the scripts, storyboards and shot plan for each video that was created entirely using in-game assets powered by Crytek’s revolutionary CryENGINE® 3 technology.