3/29/2006 - Ubisoft acquires all intellectual property rights for Far Cry and will take the Far Cry Edition of the Cry Engine to the next level. Today’s deal was seen as a preemptive measure to secure the popular license in the wake of CryTek’s long-term development deal with megapublisher and Ubisoft-archrival Electronic Arts. The first game to be published under that agreement, the military sci-fi shooter Crysis, recently made waves at the Game Developers’ Conference via an impressive PC demo.

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SAN JOSE, Calif.–Two years after bursting on the scene with the acclaimed first-person shooter FarCry, German developer Crytek is out dropping jaws once again with the first glimpse of Crysis, the company’s second game. There’s a technical trailer of Crysis being shown at the Game Developers Conference that is simply blowing everyone away with its visions of incredibly lush and realistic jungle combat. And this first glimpse is doubly impressive considering that Crytek seemed to have disappeared off the face of the earth after signing a publishing deal with EA in 2004. Needless to say, we needed to learn more, so we were able to sit down with Cevat Yerli, the president and CEO of Crytek, to get the first details on Crysis. 

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“Rainbow Six is back and better than ever,” said Tony Kee, vice president of marketing at Ubisoft. “Building upon the online success of the Rainbow Six franchise and harnessing the power of the next-generation experience, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas will be the benchmark against which all next-generation games will be measured. With Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter being released this month to wide critical acclaim, and Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Double Agent also due out this year, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas makes it a perfect trifecta for the Clancy series in 2006.”

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