Scaleform

GREENBELT, MD, USA, March 20, 2006 – Scaleform® Corporation, the leader in hardware-accelerated user interface (UI) and scalable vector graphics engines for video game entertainment, and award-winning game developer Crytek announced a ten-year agreement today to integrate the Scaleform GFx™ SDK into Crytek's leading-edge CryENGINE™ graphics engine.

In addition, all new Crytek titles will take extensive advantage of the Scaleform GFx SDK, including the highly anticipated Crysis™. Developed by Crytek, the makers of the award-winning Far Cry™, Crysis will be a new first-person shooter franchise based on groundbreaking innovations in gameplay and technology. "Our focus has always been on innovating gameplay and technology," said Cevat Yerli, chief executive officer and president of Crytek. "Scaleform shares Crytek's commitment to delivering cutting edge experiences to gamers through our original intellectual properties. Crysis will be a showcase for that commitment and will offer gamers from around the world the next step in FPS innovation. Using our new state-of-the-art CryENGINE 2 and Scaleform GFx, Crysis will deliver an unrivalled cinematic experience,"

"We are thrilled that Crysis will be the launch title for Scaleform GFx. Looking forward, we expect to collaborate on a catalogue of awe-inspiring games, both authored by Crytek and by its CryENGINE licensees," said Brendan Iribe, president and chief executive officer of Scaleform. "With Scaleform GFx tightly integrated in the CryENGINE infrastructure and tool chain for all platforms, including PC, current and next generation consoles, artists can rapidly design, develop and deploy scalable Adobe® Flash® content within the 3D environment."

The Scaleform GFx SDK is a light-weight, high-performance rich media vector graphics engine for Console and PC game developers, combining the scalability and development ease of proven visual authoring tools like Flash with the latest hardware graphics acceleration that cutting-edge game developers demand. Using Scaleform GFx, companies can change from a programmer-centric static UI development environment to an artist-driven dynamic UI and animated texture production pipeline.

The Scaleform GFx rich media engine is built on the core Scaleform VGx™ hardware-accelerated vector graphics technology, which tessellates vector graphic shapes into triangles that modern 3D video cards can render. By converting the data into triangles, Scaleform VGx can output vector graphics many times faster than traditional software rasterizers, allowing it to be used within high-performance full-screen multimedia environments.

About Crytek
Crytek®, Best Independent European Studio 2004 and Best Independent New Studio 2004 worldwide and creator of the multiple award-winning true next-generation first person shooter Far Cry, is an interactive entertainment development company located in Coburg, Germany. Crytek is dedicated to creating exceptionally high quality videogames for PC and next-generation consoles, using their proprietary, cutting-edge 3D game technologies CryENGINE™ and Polybump™. For further information please visit www.crytek.com.

About Scaleform
Scaleform Corporation is a leading provider of tools and middleware for the video game, embedded, mobile and desktop markets. Scaleform licenses a suite of cross-platform, hardware-accelerated vector graphics engines and UI toolkits, which allow users to design, develop and deploy a variety of interactive entertainment content across a wide range of platforms and formats. For more information, please visit: www.scaleform.com

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