EA executive hints of possible acquisition of Crytek
A report published in a German newspaper today suggests that Electronic Arts (EA) could snuggle up with Crytek closer and beyond the distribution deal for the upcoming Crysis first-person-shooter. The developer of FarCry would be the second German game developer EA would be acquiring within a short period of time.
According to article, EA's executive vice president and general manager of international publishing Gerhard Florin described Crytek as a "very, very interesting candidate" for an acquisition. Faruk Yerli, co-founder of the Frankfurt, Germany, based game studio, confirmed related conversations with EA to Die Welt.
Crysis originally was scheduled to be hitting store shelves later this year, but is now more likely to be become available in early 2007, according to recent reports in the German magazine "Der Spiegel." Crysis has a development budget of about $20 million, which exceeds the cost of most German movie productions.
EA announced last week that it has acquired Phenomic, the Ingelhiem, Germany-based developer of SpellForce 2: Shadow Wars.
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