Crytek Studios is a video game video game developer located in Coburg, Germany. They are best known for developing the game Far Cry and the CryENGINE that the game utilizies which includes PolyBump, a version of normal mapping technology.

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A month before the release of Far Cry , a former CryTek employee told the German criminal police ( Kripo ) that the studio was using unlicensed copies of Maya (software) and 3D Studio Max for developing Far Cry . CryTek denied that anyone had been arrested, but admitted that the police had raided their offices. A senior staffer at Ubisoft s Paris headquarters was quoted as saying, What we ve read in published reports is that Crytek had not paid for the sufficient number of licenses.

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