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APB Developer Realtime Worlds Hit With Major Layoffs

The studio behind the ambitious cops and crooks online game APB may be on the verge of closure, according to sources claiming to have knowledge of the situation. But developer Realtime Worlds says it’s “fully committed” to the massively multiplayer game.


July 31, 2010
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Project: MyWorld Is The Vision Crackdown And APB Were Built Upon

How did developer Realtime Worlds go from creating violent free-roaming shooters like APB and Crackdown to working on the massive social gaming undertaking Project: MyWorld? They don’t. It was the other way around.


July 29, 2010
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APB Developer Rebuilds The World In Our Image

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“What would it look like if Nintendo built Google Earth?” That’s the question used to describe Crackdown and APB developer Realtime World’s new project, a mix of social gaming, social networking and traditional gaming known as MyWorld.