Crytek was almost a first-party dev for Microsoft

Pwngamer.com says: A tid-bit of trivia that was unknown to us and perhaps other PC fans, but would you believe that Crytek was very close to signing up as one of Microsoft’s first-party Xbox devs? The powers that be obviously had different plans for CEO Cevat Yerli and his team, it turned out that Crysis was just a little too much like one of Microsoft’s other alien shooters.