Crytek is a video game development company founded in 1999 by three Turkish brothers (a.k.a. Yerli brothers). Crytek's main headquarters reside in Frankfurt, Germany with two other studios in Kiev, Ukraine and Budapest, Hungary . Crytek’s development team is comprised of 186 game professionals from different locations such as Europe (151), Canada (3 people), the United States (6), Brazil(1), Turkey (9), Israel (2), India (1), China (1), Russia (4), Japan (2), Australia (5), Macedonia (2), and New Zealand (1). They are best known for developing the game Far Cry and the CryENGINE that the game uses which includes PolyBump, a version of normal mapping technology, and more recent achievements such as Crysis and CryENGINE2. Crytek has partnerships with Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, NVIDIA, Intel, AMD, FMOD, Scaleform, Xoreax, Sparkasse Coburg, and Rating Services.
