'Star Citizen' switches to Amazon's game engine

[Joystiq]

Star Citizen is still

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, but it now has a more solid underpinning. Cloud Imperium has

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that it has switched both Star Citizen and Squadron 42 from Crytek's CryEngine to

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as of Star Citizen's just-launched

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release. It was an "easy and smooth transition" due to Lumberyard's CryEngine roots, but both secures the "long term future" of the games and promises some distinct advantages. It taps directly into the cloud through Amazon Web Services, for instance, and makes Twitch streaming easy.

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