Crytek is a German video game company founded in 1999 by three Turkish brothers: Cevat, Avni and Faruk Yerli. Crytek's main headquarters are in Frankfurt, Germany, with five other studios in Kiev, Budapest, Sofia, South Korea and Nottingham. Crytek's development team is made up of 296 game professionals from Europe (249), Asia (24), North America (14), Oceania (7) and Africa (1). They are best known for developing the game Far Cry and the CryEngine that the game uses, and more recently Crysis and CryEngine 2.