Crytek Giving Away CryEngine To UK Universities

GamesIndustry reports that German game developer Crytek will be making CryEngine, the game engine behind Far Cry and Aion, available to universities in the UK for free. They're doing so because they want new college grads to get hands-on experience with the technology that runs real games. Crytek's Karl Hilton said, "Universities are looking to foster creativity and send people out into the industry who have lots of ideas, but it's also about that practical hands-on training so that they know what the limitations are. It's very easy for students to come out of the academic world and not have a grasp on the realities of making a videogame. The more we can get involved with them and give them feedback and access to the tools involved, the more accurate the course will become in training people up."

Re:Not Open Source

[El Lobo]

And this boys and girls is what is wrong with (many of) this Open Source/Free generation individuals. People expect free things and if they don't get it, then they feel they have the right to insult the hard work of other people that have been, oh, so naive to think that they are really helping with drivers, education, or you name it. And the funny thing is, when you ask those same rabid individuals, what have YOU done for the community, the answer invariabily is: you don't know me, so don't judge me...

And here we are. And it's getting worse day by day.

Re:Repeat after me...

[clickety6]

In the UK, Polytechnics used to give a more practical, hands-on training vocational training but after the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 they all became called Universities, although in many respects they are the same institutes offering the same courses...