Game Engines: CryEngine 3 SDK

Just recently CryEngine 3 SDK finally was released, as it was promised by Crytek early this year. CryEngine 3 SDK is a special, free for non-commercial usage, edition of the newest and most powerful Crytek's game engine. This article supposed to be your starter guide to the CE3 SDK, providing useful information on its system requirements, installation procedure and sources of available engine documentation.

Great news come from Crytek, best known for their Crysis series first person shooter games — as it was promised before, following the release of free toolset for Crysis 2 modding ( Crysis 2 ModSDK ), long-awaited CryEngine 3 SDK become available for download. CryEngine 3 SDK is a free for non-commercial usage edition of one of the most powerful current-generation game engine that was used for Crysis 2 development.

Another good news for people interested in game development and modding came from Crysis 2 developers — just recently became known that Valve's Source Engine SDK will be available for free, and now Crytek makes own move and releases Crysis 2 ModSDK — a free set of modification tools for Crysis 2, which uses newest CryEngine 3 game engine. Sandbox 3 Editor ( another name for ModSDK ) already available for download!