The Remo Files: The Crysis Warhead PC Explained

[On occasion, I may be reading my Gamasutra colleague Chris Remo’s excellent weblog, and ask nicely to yoink one of his posts for GameSetWatch. This post — dealing with his chat to the Crytek folks about their custom-branded Crysis-related PC — is one of those.]
About a month ago, I reported that EA was planning to market a Crysis Warhead-ready PC. I have now learned that the machine—which, at least among the Crytek staff that specced it out, is called the “Warhead PC”—will be officially announced next week.
In my original post, I pegged the price to be between $600 and $800; as it turns out, it’s almost exactly in between, at $699, and it will apparently be coming in a single SKU. It will be sold by UltraPC, and unveiled by EA. Crytek, Nvidia, EA, and UltraPC were all involved.
I spoke with Crysis franchise producer Bernd Diemer, who explained […]

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