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   For a studio that launched only two games so far, Crytek is expanding at an alarming rate. Albeit there's nothing really alarming about it. While their well-established studio in Germany is hard at work on the upcoming Crysis shooter (among other projects), and their younger Kiev studio is also cooking up some kind of secret original project, Crytek announces the opening of yet another European studio, in Budapest, Hungary.

   Commenting on the news, Crytek's managing director Avni Yerli said that they chose Budapest not only because it's "a wonderful city" (with wonderful female citizens I might add), but also due to the "significant pool of very qualified and experienced game development talent already in place there". Something that's been proven for many years now, since the Hungarians have been making great games ever since the early '90s (Reunion warps to mind).
"We think it is a great way to widen our horizons and develop for a new gaming genre while continuing our company's strategic growth and expansion", added Avni Yerli. "It is also an opportunity to further leverage all the effort that our team has put into developing our proprietary CryENGINE 2 technology while building on our tradition of producing the highly innovative and creative kind of games for which we are known."    The marked passage above is reason enough to believe that the new Crytek Budapest studio will not be making another shooter, but some other kind of game - perhaps even a CryEngine2-powered strategy game, given Hungary's specialty in this genre. We hope to find out soon enough.

   In the meantime, let's not forget that Crytek has also been hiring for console development, including for the PS3. And there's also that Xbox 360 Crysis follow-up we've been hearing about some time ago.