Develop, a European-based games industry trade magazine, has revealed the sale of Project MyWorld from troubled studio Realtime Worlds to an unnamed American company. In a story released on its website earlier today, the publication stated that the purchase has split Realtime Worlds into at least two separate entities, each of which is being eyed by several potential buyers.
The fate of the 23 developers recently re-hired by administrating firm Begbies Traynor is currently unknown, as is the ultimate fate of Realtime Worlds' more famous creation, the $100 million MMOFPS known as All Points Bulletin. Develop's confirmation of a U.S.-based purchaser for Project MyWorld would seem to invalidate speculation that the anonymous buyers are Realtime Worlds heads Dave Jones and Ian Hetherington.
You can view all the details at Develop's website.
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Posted: Sep 3rd 2010 4:41PM claytondora said
Hopefully the new owners of the IP's will take better care of them than RTW did...
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Posted: Sep 3rd 2010 6:48PM Controlled Chaos said
Should be interesting to see if anyone actually ends up interested in APB. The game needs one hell of a lot of development before it would be all they claimed it would. Too much needs fixing and, if it does sell, it's likely not going to make back the $100m price tag to create it.
It's a pretty deep hole to try and get out of.
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It's a pretty deep hole to try and get out of.
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