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Id Software co-founder John Carmack has admitted that the planned release of the Doom 3 source code will be delayed amid fears of a patent violation. Earlier this month Carmack said the source code was "packaged and tested" and would be released once it had been cleared by the developer's legal team. That was taken as a sign that its release was imminent. More >

Id Software co-founder John Carmack has revealed that the release of the Doom 3 source code is fast approaching. In a Tweet, Carmack said: "Doom 3 source is packaged and tested, we are waiting on final lawyer clearance for release." More >

Nvidia has released the full keynote from its recent GeForce LAN 6 event in San Francisco. Johan Andersson, visual architect at Swedish developer DICE, explains how the graphics in the Battlefield series have evolved from the release of Battlefield 1942 in 2002 to Battlefield 3, which has launched in North America today and makes its European debut on Friday. More >

The studio has posted a number of jobs vacancies on its website - including engine programmer and senior gameplay programmer - adding that experience of working with Crytek's powerful engine would be a "major bonus" More >

Concession made to Xbox owners without hard drives means that hi-res textures must be installed to see the game at its best. More >

Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli tells Gamasutra that the introduction next Monday of DirectX 11 support is "a gift to the high-end community. It lifts up Crysis 2 and gives a sneak peak of how PC gaming will evolve in the future, if you support a high-end preference." He also admits some regret at the decision to have Crysis 2 run on a wider range of PCs, as well as consoles, saying: "Crysis 1's intention was, if I were to play it three years later, it looks great. And it does, actually, it fulfilled that. But it made it difficult for entry-level players. So with Crysis 2, we took a different direction, and it backfired a little bit."

The id programmer says the studio needs to optimise its development processes in order to create content more quickly. "If we have eight times the resources in a next-gen console we can't spend a decade writing the optimal technology for that, we need to rewrite the sections that matter and then reuse as much as we can."

Crytek's engine powers $57 million project, Dismounted Soldier, for which players wear full-body VR suits to ensure new recruits are trained with "the rigor and realism needed to execute tough and demanding training in full spectrum operations."