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Crytek technical art director Christopher Evans had praise for the studio’s working relationship with Microsoft while speaking with Autodesk.

Evans’ comments were brief, but the point came across clearly: “Microsoft has been a really good partner”, he said.

Evans told Autodesk:

“Microsoft has been a really good partner, and has been supporting us a lot. It’s really interesting to see what next-gen hardware can do.”

Later in the interview, Evans also confirmed that Ryse: Son of Rome’s main character “has about 150,000 triangles”.

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I thought people only cared about their treatment of indie devs?

I think crytek is considered an indie dev for some reason... I heard them recently reffered to as an indie developer...

They have four studios and 600 employees.

I think they mostly just they have a bad reputation with the smaller devs.

They're independent (as in they still need a publisher to release games) but I don't think you could call them "indie" in that sense.

Otherwise Epic and Insomniac are also "indie".

Doesn't surprise me. I think MS are probably hoping that Ryse will be the Xbox One's Gears and that the new Cryengine will take off next gen.

@Scoobes
I think MS is hoping for Black Tusk's game to be the new Gears.

I meant in terms of forming a strong relationship with a major Engine provider, not necessarily the game itself. With Gears MS and Epic showed off what the UE3 and 360 could do early in the gen.

Ofcourse they have a good relationship, they probably got a buttload of cash from MS :)