Games company Realtime Worlds has raised $50 million in a Series B round led by Maverick Capital, reports TechCrunch UK, news which confirms Michael Arington’s story in March. Existing investors New Enterprise Associates and WPP also participated to back the Scotland and Colorado based firm which previously raised nearly $33 million. Realtime has an exclusive partnership with Microsoft Game Studios and its first title, Crackdown for Xbox 360 in early 2007, sold about 1.4m copies, but the money looks likely to head towards it’s online games development. Realtime Worlds already runs is poised to release All Points Bulletin, a massively multiplayer online game. (Release)
“Realtime Worlds already runs All Points Bulletin, a massively multiplayer online game.”
– where by “already runs” you mean “will release at an as-yet unspecified date”.
I don’t think it’s a secret that most people purchased Crackdown for its guaranteed download of the Halo multiplayer beta.
Give Crackdown its props, it won two BAFTAs among many other awards, and was on just about everyone’s Top 10 list for 2007. Great game.
Crackdown was the absolute bomb-diggity. One of the best open-world games I’ve ever played.
Are they writing games for Iphone aswell ?