Crytek - "Constrained by Our Publisher"

Poor old Crytek... it's developed a reputation and earned a great deal of cash'n'kudos from making high quality sc-fi shooters, only to discover that, "We don't want to be the company that just does sci-fi shooters'".

This epiphany of an admission comes in an interview during which not once but twice the company's GM of games, Nick Button-Brown explained that it was being held back by its publishing partners.

First up... the Kinect title, Ryse:

"Yeah, absolutely. It's doing really well and we're really, really happy with where it's going. It's our annual thing; we show a trailer for Ryse at E3. It's going really, really well. The team actually delivered a milestone yesterday, which was quite nice. It's kind of good to see that. We're really happy with the progress. At some stage will be showing and giving more information about it. Unfortunately again we're kind of constrained by our publisher."

And then with regard to the next big budget shooter:

"April! We're constrained by our publisher's PR machine but we're really excited by what we're seeing."

Source: CVG