Crytek’s previously said licensing costs for its state-of-the-art CryEngine 3 would be flexible, and as a testament to that, today the company announced that it has inked a deal with upstart indie studio New World Interactive.

Helmed by the original producer of notable titles like Red Orchestra and Insurgency, Denver-based Newworld is developing Lethal Enterprise, a free to play FPS game “about the drug war.” No further details were provided. It’s currently in the “prototype phase.”

“Besides the game being about the drug war we don’t want to reveal too much. We’re very excited about licensing CryENGINE and truly hope to raise the bar when it comes to visual expectations of free to play games” says Newworld’s President Jeremy Blum, who was the original producer of Red Orchestra and Insurgency, both Mod of the Year Award winners.

“A lot of people say that mod development is nothing like AAA downloadable game development. My guess is this person never made a total conversion mod before” said Jeremy, who first came up with the concept for Red Orchestra when he was 14 years old. New World Interactive has just launched its official website at http://www.newworldinteractive.com

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