EA AND CRYTEK ANNOUNCE DEVELOPMENT OF CRYSIS WARHEAD The Next Installment of One of the Highest Rated Games of 2007 Blasts its way onto PCs this Fall


Maximum freedom, maximum explosions and maximum Psycho! Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) and award-winning independent studio Crytek today announced Crysis Warhead® – the parallel story to Crysis, one of the most critically-acclaimed first person shooters and PC games of 2007. Shipping exclusively for the PC this fall, Crysis Warhead is the first title to be developed at Crytek´s Budapest studio, and is built on a new, enhanced and optimized version of Crytek’s CryENGINE® 2 technology.

“We were very pleased with the reception of Crysis from both gamers and media after our launch last year,” said Cevat Yerli, CEO and President of Crytek. “That being said,

Today the existing world-wide modding community of Crysis will receive a major boost as Crytek is happy to release the first version of the Mod Software Development Kit for the award-winning FPS.


Mod SDK - Description
With the tools and the assets provided now modders will be able to not only get their own creations exported into the Sandbox2 Editor but will also be able to create complete new levels and modifications with outstanding content.

This SDK is only the first version that has been released to the community in order to provide the necessary exporters, plug-ins, and also respective documentation.

Next to some basic sample assets that provide

We welcome you to the “Crysis Weekly Update #2”, which is an official status report from Crytek to the world-wide community in order to get you up-to-date on the progress of various Crysis related topics.

In this update we want to talk about Crytek’s internal cheat protection we are going to fully implement with the upcoming patch. In addition to that we will introduce you to quite a few new bug fixes of the change log and also new features that are included.


Patch 1.2 – Cheat Protection
The first topic of today is all about multiplayer, cheating and what can be done against it. With the upcoming patch, Crytek’s internal anti-cheat solution is being fully

Incoming! Forum member Fortran of the CryRecon:NanoWarrior Mod Team recently has posted a video of their work in progress CBU-72 / BLU-73/B fuel bomb. The BLU-73/B is being carried by a SUU-19/B dispenser which is also being used for other cluster bombs such ad the CBU-97.

Usually dropped by an F-117A Nighthawk, the three warheads detonate at a height of 30 feet abouve ground, forming a big cloud of aerosol, which is being ignited by an air-burst fuse. With this power, the weapon is a good choice to clear minefields and such.

Ingame Demonstration
Below you can see an ingame video of the bomb in action.