Sorry this is kinda offtopic but do you remember the Streets of rage prototype they made:
http://www.polygon.com/2012/12/5/37...e-from-ruffian-games-shown-in-prototype-video
So this guy from Ruffian teaches in our game design course and showed us some of their pitches and design docs. We saw the same Streets of Rage video I mentioned, its Power Point pitch and another Killer Instinct pitch. The game was called Killer Instinct Reborn. There were 3D models of some characters and also a mockup video. Funnily the stage shown in the video was the same city from that Streets of Rage proto. They were going to simplify attacks (super smash style) so that dragon punch motion would be changed to just up+punch.
He said he probably shouldn't show it to us so I thought maybe this is not widely known. Tried googling and found nothing.
And he also showed us Power Point pitch of Lego style multiplayer superhero game featuring Xbox avatars. I guess that never happened either.
tl;dr Ruffian Games pitched Killer Instinct to Microsoft at some point. Mock if old.