New World Interactive (“Newworld”), a newly formed independent game developer based in Denver, today announced that it has licensed the state-of-the-art CryENGINE®3 from Crytek GmbH to develop Lethal Enterprise, a free to play FPS game about the drug war.
“Besides the game being about the drug war we don’t want to reveal too much. We’re very excited about licensing CryENGINE and truly hope to raise the bar when it comes to visual expectations of free to play games” says Newworld’s President Jeremy Blum, who was the original producer of Red Orchestra and Insurgency, both Mod of the Year Award winners.
“A lot of people say that mod development is nothing like AAA downloadable game development. My guess is this person never made a total conversion mod before” said Jeremy, who first came up with the concept for Red Orchestra when he was 14 years old.
New World Interactive has just launched its official website at http://www.newworldinteractive.com
“We’re thrilled to welcome New World Interactive as a new licensee and are happy that Jeremy and his team chose CryENGINE 3 to realize their FPS project.” says Carl Jones, Director of Global Business Development CryENGINE. “We strongly believe that CryENGINE®3 will revolutionize the free-to-play market with AAA content and are looking forward to seeing more of Lethal Enterprise.”
About New World Interactive
Newworld is a Denver, Colorado based independent game developer specializing in high quality multiplayer gaming products for digital download. Targeting PC, Mac, Xbox Live Arcade and Playstation Network, Newworld focuses on titles with sophisticated themes, action packed gameplay and cutting edge graphics. The company was first established in June 2010 in New York, just recently expanding and relocating to Denver, Colorado.
About Crytek
Crytek GmbH ("Crytek") is one of the world’s leading independent development studios for interactive entertainment. It is based in Frankfurt am Main (Germany) and has additional studios in Kiev (Ukraine), Budapest (Hungary), Sofia (Bulgaria), Seoul (South Korea) and Nottingham (UK). Crytek is dedicated to creating exceptionally high-quality video games for next-generation consoles and PC, powered by their proprietary cutting-edge 3D-Game-Technology, CryENGINE (R) . Since its foundation in 1999, Crytek has created the multi-award winning PC titles Far Cry (R) , Crysis (R)(awarded best PC Game of E3 2007 and Best Technology at the 2008 Game Developers Choice Awards) and Crysis Warhead (R) (awarded Best Graphics Technology at IGN Best of 2008 Awards). In March 2011, Crytek will release the newest instalment of its multi-award winning FPS Crysis (R) series, Crysis (R) 2 – the first Crytek game to be available on all three major platforms.