The advanced game engine behind FPS Crysis has been licensed by Korean MMO maker XLGames to power a brand new entry into the genre. The CryEngine 2 will help power the new game, being masterminded by Lineage creator Jake Song's studio. The designer is a veteran formerly of NCsoft, and founded XLGames in 2003.

The CryEngine 2 is being used in Crytek's Crysis, as well as other projects being created internally by the German developer, with MindArk also using the tech to help make Entropia Universe. Thus far, the middleware tech has lost out to the Unreal Engine 3, which has been licensed by a multitude of third-parties.

Previously, Song used the original CryEngine technology to power Aion: Tower of Eternity, an NCsoft MMORPG due out in South Korea in 2008. Presumably the developer is very much at home with the engine.

"We previously had a lot of success using their ground breaking CryEngine 1 technology while at NCSoft for AION, and after seeing what it could do in the early previews of Crysis, we just knew we wanted to continue to work with their great new tools and engine," commented XLGames vice president and technical director Patrick Doane.

By Luke Guttridge

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