Crytek Releases the Free CryENGINE3

The free CryENGINE3 is now available to download and offers a wide range of possibilities for creating your own game. Crysis 2 was already designed with the same engine.
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The engine is available to everyone, and it is possible to develop your own non-commercial game completely free of charge. For those who then want to commercialize their game after all, Crytec offers a license for CryENGINE3. After purchasing it, you are then entitled to distribute your game as well.

More on this in the next issue of DP on October 31, in which we interview Crytek on this subject.

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