Crytek – New Austin studio to work on online games

More online games using CryEngine 3, by developers who actually know (not the ones from Asia) how to use the engine? Hell yeah! In an interview with Gamasutra, Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli divulged that “It would be pretty much safe…

Asta: The War of Tears and Winds – Closed Beta 1 date announced

First announced back in 2009, this CryEngine 3-developed title is finally ready to enter Closed Beta 1, which will be held from 23rd January onwards. Touted as the “Asian WoW”, the aesthetics are 100% full of Asian design flair, with…

The Phoenix Project – City of Heroes reborn with CryEngine 3

Founded by several fans of the now-defunct City of Heroes, Missing Worlds Media rose from the ashes and announced the ambitious Project Phoenix, a similar hero-themed MMORPG. Set to be crafted by CryEngine 3, an early teaser trailer of the…

Cabal II: The Neoforce Era – Game suffers mass account hacks

According to foreign reports with evidence from Cabal II’s official boards, accounts have been hacked on a daily basis since the game went into Open Beta on the 14th last month. Around 6% of the threads posted since that date…

Cabal II: The Neoforce Era – New slides reveals basic game content

Cabal II: The Neoforce Era will be going into Open Beta in Korea tomorrow, and earlier today some slides from developer ESTsoft revealed some of the game content which will be implemented, including field maps and instanced dungeons.   According to…

Cabal II: The Neoforce Era – Open Beta announced

While the non-wipe Pre-Open Beta is currently going on in Korea just for today, 1600 till 2200 Korean time, developer ESTsoft also announced that Cabal II: The Neoforce Era will officially begin Open Beta on 14th November, which is just…

[G*Star 2012] Icarus – Official trailer shown with actual game footage

Icarus, although the listed in the Korean media as 1 of the “Big 4″ this year alongside Mabinogi II, Bless and Asta, was always the black horse in my mind. First known as NED, the game took another 2-3 years…

[G*Star 2012] Icarus – New game trailers released

Yet another CryEngine 3 title, Icarus was originally known as NED: The New Era of Fantasy. With developer WeMade Entertainment having its core focus on mobile games this year, Icarus is no doubt the star of its MMORPG lineup. With…

[G*Star 2012] Asta: The War of Tears and Winds – New CG trailer

First revealed way back at G*Star 2010, Asta will be the main attraction for Hangame’s booth this year. Developed using CryEngine 3, it is supposedly the Asian version of World of Warcraft, with better graphics of course. After a couple…

Cabal II: The Neoforce Era – Why the game took 7 years

Cabal II: The Neoforce Era was originally scheduled to have a 5-years development cycle, which eventually took 7 now and still counting. With Closed Beta 2 coming next week, Korean gaming website Inven visited developer ESTsoft to seek out some answers. Note that…

Cabal II: The Neoforce Era – First English server announced

According to the latest news from Korea media, the first English (and overseas) server for Cabal II was made public moments ago. The honor goes to Southeast Asia publisher, Asiasoft, which has its headquarters in Thailand offices in various SEA countries…

Cabal II: The Neoforce Era – Closed Beta 2 announced

Starting from today till 3rd October, ESTsoft will be opening up registration for Cabal II’s upcoming Closed Beta 2. This test phase will last 4 days from 11th October onwards. Developed using CryEngine 3, the initial impression wasn’t that good from…

Warface – Korean publisher revealed for CryEngine 3 online shooter

Today, the Korean server for Warface was officially revealed, with MMO kingpin Nexon as the publisher. Warface has been active in Russia for a few months now, with the China server still in beta phase and the North American server…

Crytek – All our future games to be F2P

[Source] Yes, you did not read the post title wrongly. Crytek, the studio behind the CryEngine and Crysis series, told Videogamer that the company will finish work on Crysis 3, Ryse, other confirmed games and transition into a Free to…