Crytek is a german video game company founded in 1999 by three brothers of Turkish descent: Cevat, Avni and Faruk Yerli. Crytek's main headquarters reside in Frankfurt, Germany with two other studios in Kiev, Ukraine and Budapest, Hungary. Crytek’s development team is 187 game professionals from different locations such as Europe (151), Canada (3 people), the United States (6), Brazil (1), Turkey (9), Israel (3), India (1), China (1), Russia (4), Japan (2), Australia (5), Macedonia (2), and New Zealand (1). They are best known for developing the game Far Cry and the CryEngine that the game uses which includes PolyBump, a version of normal mapping technology, and more recent achievements such as Crysis and CryEngine 2. Crytek has partnerships with Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, NVIDIA, Intel, AMD, FMOD, Scaleform, Xoreax Software, Sparkasse Coburg, and Rating Services.
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