Realtime Worlds in Trouble

Dundee-based games company Realtime Worlds, most notable for Xbox 360 game Crackdown and recent PC game All-Points Bulletin, shocked the world by announcing that it was going into Administration this Monday, 16th August 2010, following the 60 redundancies made by the company the week before.

It comes after disappointingly "lacklustre" sales of it's recent Microsoft Windows PC game, All-Points Bulletin. OMGN's own Jenner Cauton gave the game a review score of 7.1, and IGN agreed with a close 7.7. The news also comes a month after Crackdown 2 is released by spin-off Ruffian Games. Many of the original Crackdown development team split from Realtime Worlds when development on Crackdown 2 commenced.

Realtime Worlds was seen as one of the biggest players in the British games company industry, and the loss will hit the industry greatly. 157 of the 210 staff in the Scotland-based development office have officially lost their jobs and 28 of the 42 Colorado-based head office staff have been confirmed to be going. International interest in purchasing the company has already been announced by joint-Administrator Paul Dounis with interest supposedly coming from the United Kingdom and the United States.

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