Crytek GmbH (“Crytek”) is excited to reveal that Piranha Games’ recently announced premium free-to-play game MechWarrior® Online™ (www.mwomercs.com) will be powered by the all-in-one game development solution CryENGINE®3. Set in the year 3049 during the early stages of a massive interstellar war, MechWarrior Online puts you in command of the most powerful war machine to ever walk the field of battle, the mighty BattleMech™. Command your Mech™ and customize it to suit your battlefield role; upgrade systems, replace weapons, and tweak armor with endless options.

Crytek GmbH (Crytek) released its CryENGINE Free SDK 1.1 today which is available for download at its community portal crydev.net. Version 1.1 enables team collaboration for projects and offers a wealth of improvements for developers. At the same time Crydev.net received a major upgrade with a new projects database where teams can get together, create and showcase their work to the constantly growing community. In conjunction with updates to the CryENGINE^®3 Sandbox™ Editor, the projects database will give teams the ability to organize, control and distribute their creations.

Crytek GmbH (“Crytek”) is excited to announce first download numbers for its recently released SDK. The free version of CryENGINE^®3 hit 100.000 downloads within the first five days after its release on August 17th.

In line with GDC Europe and Gamescom last week, the independent developer had announced the release of a CryENGINE^®3 free of charge for non-commercial use.  The award winning SDK provides the complete game engine to create AAA quality next generation games for PC, and includes the CryENGINE^®3 Sandbox™ level editor, a production-proven, 3rd generation “What you see is what you play” (WYSIWYP) - tool designed by and for professional developers.

Crytek GmbH (“Crytek”) is excited to announce that they will release their latest all-in-one game development solution CryENGINE 3 free of charge for non-commercial use today. The award winning SDK provides the complete game engine to create AAA quality next generation games for PC, and includes the CryENGINE^®3 Sandbox™ level editor, a production-proven, 3rd generation “What you see is what you play” (WYSIWYP) - tool designed by and for professional developers. The free toolset is available for download at crydev.net, the former crymod.com community portal that offers documentation written by the developers of the engine, a thriving community and a supplementary knowledge base for CryENGINE 3. The free CryENGINESDK will be updated regularly, to make sure our community has access to all the advances we make to CryENGINE 3.

New World Interactive (“Newworld”), a newly formed independent game developer based in Denver, today announced that it has licensed the state-of-the-art CryENGINE®3 from Crytek GmbH to develop Lethal Enterprise, a free to play FPS game about the drug war.