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Crytek Is Backing A New Social Gaming Network Called GFACE
Crytek, the development studio behind Crysis, is backing a new social network with a weird name called GFACE.
I assume that the name has been chosen so that people will hear the words "face" and "social network" in the same sentence, get excited about Facebook, and then by the time they realize what they've signed up for it will be too late. People probably won't be too upset though, because GFACE sounds pretty interesting.
It's a online social network that looks like it has taken some inspiration from Google Plus and Facebook, but it also looks like it will have a robust set of online gaming tools. The site shows examples like clicking and dragging people from your friends list into your games for multiplayer, built in video chat, and probably most interesting, cross-platform gaming supporting, as an example, one player on a smartphone, one on a PC, and one on a tablet. In that instance, each player would be performing a different job customized to their device.
It's unclear if GFACE will support non-browser based games, but with Crytek on board, a company that likes to put its games on discs, it seems like it could be possible.
You can check out GFACE and sign up for the beta by clicking here.
[via Kotaku]
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