If Electronic Arts in fact is considering an acquisition of Crytek, it would not only bag a promising shooter, but also the CryEngine2 game engine behind it. The engine would join the Unreal 3 Engine, which EA has licensed from Epic Games for several new of its own games. A deal may also prompt EA's rival Ubisoft to rethink its game strategy: Ubisoft was the original publisher of FarCry and announced earlier this year and it has secured all rights to the FarCry first-person-shooter series.