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The latest patch for Crysis Wars, the stand-alone multiplayer aspect of Crysis Warhead, updates the game to version 1.2 and includes a number of bug fixes and enhancements. Steam customers should try the autoupdater before using this patch. Keep reading for full patch notes.

Download Crysis Wars v1.2 Patch (104 MB)

Far Cry and Crysis developer Crytek continues to expand its growing offices worldwide. The German based developer announced today that it would open an office in Seoul, South Korea in an effort to expand its Cryengine licensing business in Asian markets. The Cryengine is already being used for NCsoft's upcoming MMO Aion which is under beta testing in Korea at the moment.

Crytek has already expanded beyond its German roots to include offices in Hungary (where their most recent game, the PC shooter Crysis Warhead, was developed) and Kiev. Last June it announced that it had purchased the Bulgaria-based Black Sea Studios, renaming it Crytek Black Sea.

Last year a new San Diego game developer called Paleo Entertainment announced its presence, revealing that they had plans to release a CryEngine 2 based action game called Merchants of Brooklyn. This week the developer released the first media from the game and it's looking like it could be something special.

The first trailer and screenshots depict a game world with a cel-shaded art style and a highly violent world. The backstory tells the tale of an Earth in the year 3100 where you play a cloned Neanderthal fighter that competes in bloody gladiator style matches for the amusement of the upper class. The trailer depicts something we have never seen in a game before; pulling off an opponants head and then charging it up somehow to use it as a grenade. There's no word on a publisher or release date yet for the game.

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If you have bought the recent Crytek shooter Crysis Warhead you know that it comes with a separate disk for the multiplayer online game Crysis Wars. Crysis Wars currently requires online authentication on start-up but otherwise it can be installed on as many PCs as you like. Well in the latest update on the official MyCrysis.com web site, Crytek has announced a change for the first Crysis Wars patch that will make a lot of people happy.

As they state themselves, "We've been browsing through the forums and getting community feedback, and we've decided that the online authentication will be removed from the initial startup of Crysis Wars, so you don't need to worry about that anymore!." Again this will be implemented with the first Crysis Wars patch which should be released sometime next week. The patch will also add a Linux server, a 64-bit version and more improvements and bug fixes.

Just in case you are unaware, Today is the last day of the three online multiplayer trial for Crysis Wars, the separate multiplayer experience that was shipped with Crytek's first person shooter Crysis Warhead last month. The free trial ends tonight at 11:59 pm PT (for all you East Coasters that's 2:59 am ET Monday morning).

If you have a LAN set-up you may have already played the game for free but today is the last day you can play the special Crysis Wars trial client (which has all of the content of the regular game) online for free as well. And we happen to have the download client right here at Big Download. So what are you waiting for?

Download the Crysis Wars free trial at Big Download now

You may have seen the stock market go down the tubes this week with no end in sight. Why now blow off that NYSE stress with a free online multiplayer game trial? Today is the first day of the three day trial for Crysis Wars, the separate multiplayer experience that was shipped with Crytek's first person shooter Crysis Warhead last month.

If you have a LAN set-up you may have already played the game for free but from now until Sunday you can play the special Crysis Wars trial client (which has all of the content of the regular game) online for free as well. And we happen to have the download client right here at Big Download. So what are you waiting for?

Download the Crysis Wars free trial at Big Download now

Check out this trailer for the free to play Crysis Wars weekend coming up October 10-12, then download the client for hot multiplayer action. The trial client will allow you to play Crysis Wars over a LAN to practice for the weekend. Register an account at www.mycrysis.com.

Download HD Crysis Wars Free Weekend Trailer (104 MB)
Download Crysis Wars Trial [Complete Single File] (5.5 GB)
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Download Crysis Wars Trial [Self-Exctracting Multipart] 1 of 3 (2 GB)
Download Crysis Wars Trial [Self-Exctracting Multipart] 2 of 3 (2 GB)
Download Crysis Wars Trial [Self-Exctracting Multipart] 3 of 3 (1.5 GB)

Crysis Warhead was released to stores a few weeks ago but contained a separate disk featuring the multiplayer online title Crysis Wars. As it turned out there was more to that move than meets the eye. Today developer Crytek and publisher Electronic Arts announced that people will be able to download and play the full version of Crysis Wars for free online for one weekend only, (Oct. 10-12).

If you haven't bought your copy of Crysis Warhead you will be able to go to Crytek's new community site MyCrysis.com starting on Monday to sign up and get your unique activation key. You will also be able to download the full Crysis Wars client at that time which has 21 maps, three gameplay modes and more. If you have a LAN set up you will be able to play Crysis Wars for free immediately until Oct 12. The free online play will begin on Oct. 10. If you already own a copy of the game, the announcement hints that those folks will get something extra this weekend.

Crysis blew gamers away in 2007 with its eye-popping graphics, and met with generally high critical acclaim. Despite what people thought about the actual plot and gameplay, few could deny how fantastic looking the game was. Gamers also realized that intensely realistic DirectX 10 graphics came at a high cost. The developers, Crytek, claim that piracy had a lot to do with relatively average sales of Crysis, which may be the case, but the game's reputation for requiring expensive high-end hardware to run properly had its impact too. The game's follow-up, Crysis Warhead, released recently and claims that the game can run smoothly on a $699 PC using medium settings. We decided to compare the performance differences between Crysis and Warhead and see if the game engine received any significant optimization since its release one year ago.

If you bought Crysis Warhead last week and were surprised that a version of Crytek's Sandbox level editor wasn't included you are not alone. Many people expected the editor to be released alongside the stand alone continuation of the sci-fi first person shooter. Fret not, however, as Crytek does indeed have plans in this area.

The official Crymod web site states that the development team wanted to concentrate on making Crysis Warhead and the separate multiplayer disk Crysis Wars as good as they could make them. Now that the game (or games) are complete, the dev team will now work on getting the mod tools and level editor released, stating, "We are definitely aware that the community is eager to get this software, and we will provide it as soon as it is complete and available." No specific release dates were announced. They did say that many previously made user made Crysis multiplayer levels can still be downloaded and used in Crysis Wars.