Crytek Acquires Black Sea Studios

Neil79 · 21 Jul 2008 at 17:51

Crytek GmbH today announced that it has acquired Bulgaria-based Black Sea Studios Ltd. Under the terms of the acquisition, Black Sea Studios will become Crytek Black Sea, a wholly owned studio. Black Sea Studios development team will remain in Sofia, Bulgaria. Financial terms were not disclosed.

"We think the acquisition of Black Sea Studios is a great opportunity to continue our strategic growth and expansion. Black Sea Studios already has a very qualified and experienced development team in place and will be continually expanded in capacity to join our tradition of producing highly innovative and creative games which Crytek is known for.", said Avni Yerli, Managing Director of Crytek

"Joining the Crytek family was a logical step for us as we think it is a perfect match. We are confident that our team has the creativity and passion to further contribute in creating innovative and enjoyable games. We are fascinated about this opportunity and we are looking forward to work in this new exciting environment as Crytek Black Sea." said Vesselin Handjiev, Managing Director of Black Sea Studios, now Crytek Black Sea.

Black Sea Studio's do not need Crytek :mad:

neoboy · 21 Jul 2008 at 18:02

I'm a bit oblivious when it comes to developers, apart from the upcoming Worldshift what work have Black Sea Studio done?

Shamikebab · 21 Jul 2008 at 18:11

Knights of Honor according to wikipedia, which I've never heard of. Haven't heard of Worldshift either, so this gets a big 'oh' from me.

Weebull · 21 Jul 2008 at 18:26

Neil79 said:
Black Sea Studio's do not need Crytek

Obviously they do, or they wouldn't have agreed to it.

dbmzk1 · 21 Jul 2008 at 18:51

Who?

FrostedNipple · 21 Jul 2008 at 19:12

What exactly do they make?

XPE · 21 Jul 2008 at 19:17

well Crysis couldnt have done too badly, if they can afford to buy over other devs

Shamikebab · 21 Jul 2008 at 19:21

FrostedNipple said:
What exactly do they make?

Shamikebab said:
Knights of Honor according to wikipedia, which I've never heard of. Haven't heard of Worldshift either, so this gets a big 'oh' from me.

AWPC · 21 Jul 2008 at 19:49

Valve or ID need to aquire Crytek graphics team only then throw a new engine together which scales well on a mixture of hardware.

taz488 · 21 Jul 2008 at 21:35

AWPC said:
Valve or ID need to aquire Crytek graphics team only then throw a new engine together which scales well on a mixture of hardware.

fantasy world

Darg · 21 Jul 2008 at 21:51

Valve are already working on a new engine. Real physics, bigger maps.

Sem · 21 Jul 2008 at 22:02

XPE said:
well Crysis couldnt have done too badly, if they can afford to buy over other devs

im surprised by this i never thought crytek would be big enough to gobble up another dev

maybe EA are giving them business tips

Neil79 · 21 Jul 2008 at 23:00

dbmzk1 said:
Who?

Knights of honour , did nobody play that game

I thought it was fantastic , i played it again and again the same can't be said about crysis.

Naffa · 21 Jul 2008 at 23:37

Darg said:
Valve are already working on a new engine. Real physics, bigger maps.

Really?

They can definitely pull it off. If we see Source 2 (or whatever it will be called) then everyone else is going to be playing catch up.

Spitfir3 · 21 Jul 2008 at 23:43

Darg said:
Valve are already working on a new engine. Real physics, bigger maps.

ouuh really? got a source on that? hope they'll improve their lighting and shadow stuff.

Klo · 22 Jul 2008 at 00:47

Darg said:
Valve are already working on a new engine. Real physics, bigger maps.

Yeah, I would love to see a source for that

Strife212 · 22 Jul 2008 at 03:09

I hope so... I must be the only one who is honestly sick of source now, it looks so basic.

JediFragger · 22 Jul 2008 at 08:34

Valve, now *they* know how to produce an engine :cool:

Scott C · 22 Jul 2008 at 10:17

Shamikebab said:
Knights of Honor according to wikipedia, which I've never heard of.

I still play this...fantastic game!

Thanks,

Scott C

Darg · 26 Jul 2008 at 01:12

Klo said:
Yeah, I would love to see a source for that

All I can say that when we were contemplating the source engine for our game and were in contact with them we had issues about the current engine that we raised with them. Among them was the map size and the outdated physics engine. We were assured on both counts that they are currently working hard on fixing these issues. That was a year ago so we can only assume it won't be too much longer.

What I really want to see are real shadow maps too. No more double shadows when you have one object resting on another etc.