Realtime Worlds receives $50 million in real world investment

25 Comments by Alexander Sliwinski Mar 31st 2008 4:30PM
Filed under: Business

Realtime Worlds, the developer best known for Crackdown, raised $50 million in its third round of financing. The company is currently at work on the MMO All Points Bulletin in conjunction with Korean company Webzen. Realtime Worlds CEO David Jones was a creator on the original Grand Theft Auto and Lemmings back in the day.

Although Crackdown was a great game, nobody is going to deny that the title did better because of its tie-in with the Halo 3 beta. APB should let us see how a Realtime Worlds title does without the assistance of Master Chief and the Halo army.

[Via GameDaily]

Tags: apb, crackdown, financing, realtime-worlds, realtimeworlds

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Bleu: Mar 31st 2008; 4:35PM

No Thanks! NEEEEEEEEEEXT!

Robotochan: Mar 31st 2008; 4:36PM

I'll never understand why they bundled the Halo 3 beta with it.

A) It's a great game (Scotland FTW)
B) It was and is cheap
C) erm... something Halo fanboys won't like :)

Curtis the Claw: Brawl Code 1075-0441-3284: Mar 31st 2008; 5:48PM

It is a great game and all, but not even close to as many people would have bought it if it didn't have that Halo 3 beta sticker on it. There is your reason right there.

EC: Mar 31st 2008; 4:38PM

Crackdown was easily one of the most underrated games of last year. A lot of people bought it, but I doubt many people played it, and just used it for the Halo 3 beta.

I just wish they would make a second one.

rv: Mar 31st 2008; 4:46PM

So do I. There was so much room for improvement. Sadly, they said they wouldn't be making a second one.

booticon: Mar 31st 2008; 4:39PM

LOVED Crackdown. With or without the Halo 3 beta (in fact, I bought it after Halo 3 even came out).

Zertoss: Mar 31st 2008; 4:46PM

Crackdown was fantastic! I could heap generic praise onto that title all day.

And if APB is anything like Planetside, I'll give it a shot.

voodoo_craig: Mar 31st 2008; 4:49PM

Crackdown is awesome and it has the most creative DLC available on XBOX Live yet!
APB should be a great game.

Number_Zero: Mar 31st 2008; 4:52PM

That reminds me I need to beat Wang...

XLM: Mar 31st 2008; 5:22PM

Host a co-op and maybe someone here would help you beat your Wang.

rTwelve: Mar 31st 2008; 5:42PM

hahaha i just died laughing at you two

Zeus.:God: Mar 31st 2008; 5:50PM

Then how did you post?

arooguy: Mar 31st 2008; 5:03PM

Maybe the ABP MMO will come with a Halo MMO beta.

mernmern: Mar 31st 2008; 5:17PM

Add me to the list that enjoyed Crackdown. Granted, I bought it for the beta, but following the conclusion of the beta, I gave it a shot. As for the MMO, I have to wonder about the collaboration with Webzen. I was initially excited about Huxley, but with all of the delays, lack of information, and the horrid game play video, I have no real hope for that title or the Crackdown MMO.

Curtis the Claw: Brawl Code 1075-0441-3284: Mar 31st 2008; 5:49PM

Consider yourself added.

Dadidito: Mar 31st 2008; 5:18PM

Crackdown has to be one of the best sleeper games out there for me. I still play it regularly. Resetting the levels just to go on one more run wasting everything. Nothing as satisfying as hearing the whistle of 5 or 6 lobbed rockets impacting. Sequel please. No need for betas in addition. :)

Halwende: Mar 31st 2008; 5:25PM

Where's Lemmings for XBLA please Mr Jones?

bVork: Mar 31st 2008; 10:20PM

Never. Lemmings is now a Sony property, thanks to their takeover of Psygnosis about a decade ago.

Vcize: Mar 31st 2008; 5:25PM

Bought it for the Halo 3 beta and ended up liking it more than Halo 3.

Definitely way underrated. Awesome game, I cry every night that we probably won't get a Crackdown 2.

Vcize: Mar 31st 2008; 5:26PM

Oh, and here's to hoping that Halo 4 comes with a Crackdown 2 beta.

Lone Starr: Mar 31st 2008; 5:47PM

APRIL FOOLS!

Thomas: Mar 31st 2008; 5:55PM

I actually played Crackdown way more than H3.. Played trough the campaign once, played a little online, but i've probably played Crackdown atleast a 100 hours.

Jake11: Mar 31st 2008; 9:44PM

sick avatar. calvin and hobbes is the greatest

potato: Mar 31st 2008; 5:55PM

That's the great thing. Crackdown didn't receive nearly as much marketing effort as the quality of the game deserved. By bundling Halo 3 they introduced a lot of people to Realtime Worlds - a halo effect (no pun intended) that may very well carry into APB.

Imagine if the game sucked though, the endless bitching about greedy MS would never stop :)

PojoMofo: Apr 1st 2008; 10:03AM

When I first heard about ABP I thought it stood for Another British Pansy, I was like "Sweet, I get to go around beating up stuck up wankers, then I found out it was a cop MMO, and quickly became disinterested

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