CryEngine 3 is now FREE to download

[Nightwatch]

Crytek announced that they will release their latest all-in-one game development solution CryENGINE 3 free of charge for non-commercial use. CryEngine director of global business development Carl Jones hopes that this free offer of the kit will generate new developers and further encourage and spread the use of CryEngine 3.

Anyone can now download a full version of the best All-In-One Game Development Engine, for free and use it without charge for non-commercial game development. You can try out the fastest toolset for creating game worlds and use the power of CryENGINE 3 in your own games

CryENGINE Free Use
You can use CryENGINE 3 for free in educational facilities, even if you are charging tuition. We have always offered our engine for free to educators, but now individual students can also freely download the engine and use it to learn about real-time 3D development.

CryENGINE 3 is also free for non-commercial use; if you are distributing your game or application for free (and not charging for your work in producing it, whether directly or indirectly), no additional license is required.

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Download the CryENGINE 3 Free SDK here from CRAYTEK :

http://www.crydev.net/dm_eds/download_detail.php?id=4

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-->> At the bottom of the page, also see the SDK FAQ and download it as Adobe PDF as a guide.
Enjoy

[rockingmtranch]

That's cool as hell. And under 700 mb so you can burn your own disc.

[Nightwatch]

Yeah, exactly. It's a major initiative, actually the biggest of the kind from a software company. Now a new era opens in front of all modders. In a reasonably good time, I'm planning to try its capabilities and compatibility first with STALKER and NEWSA, of course. Some other games should be in the queue for trial, too.

[Nightwatch]

Total downloads of Free CryEngine 3 downloads have reached to 125,444 by the time of this post!

[ket]

Given how shit the Cryengine has been made to look in Crysis 2 they HAD to do something to encourage people to try the engine and make it do something good for a change (seriously, vanilla Crysis looks FAR superior compared with Crysis 2). I bet somebody is already working on remaking SoC with this toolkit putting in all the cut levels etc.