Speaking to VG247 at Develop, Realtime Worlds has offered a God-sent glimmer of hope that we may yet see a sequel to free-roaming future cop blockbuster Crackdown, one of the most-loved Xbox 360 games. That's the spirit.
Crackdown developer Realtime Worlds wants to launch its new game, APB, next year."We want to launch APB in 2009, which will be pretty much worldwide - including the Asian markets. This is our first big online game", Realtime CEO (and GTA creator) Dave Jones has told Scotsman.APB, in a nutshell, drops GTA-style gameplay into an MMO world. It's in development for PC and Xbox 360."If we have a big success with APB on the ...
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Now this we don't like the sound of. According to the rumour column of US magazine Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM), a sequel to the awesome but short Crackdown will not be happening any time in the near future. Nor will it likely happen with the same developer, if it ever happens. EGM (via 1up) writes: "A Crackdown sequel looks like it won't happen any time soon. Sure, Microsoft has danced around the idea of making another addictive ...
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The juiciest tidbit from the April issue of EGM is kind of a bummer: A Crackdown sequel looks like it won't happen any time soon. Sure, Microsoft has danced around the idea of making another addictive orb-hunting shooter, but Quartermann says even if Crackdown 2 does come to fruition, original developer Realtime Worlds probably won't be making it.
Microsoft's Shane Kim says that "we still love Crackdown... [a sequel] is an option for us."
Here are the top games for 2007, based on Xbox Live connectivity. The following rankings are based on data collected from 1/1/07 ¿ 12/31/07. Unique Users is the number of Gamertags that have played a game. In the case of Arcade titles, the list is ranked by purchased games. The top 3 for each charts are listed below, see the source for the complete top 10 lists.
TeamXbox Readers' Choice polls closed down on January 2, and all of the results have been tallied. Here are the results:
Trusted Reviews: Games of the Year - Part One.
Some years it's hard to come up with a clear-cut winner, because there aren't games that stand out in a particular category. This year, for almost every award, it's been hard to pick just one to take the crown as the best in that group. The TXB staff fussed and debated, they yelled and slammed things down, they furiously IMed and e-mailed among themselves¿ and what follows are TXB's selections.
Dundee-based Realtime Worlds won two BAFTA's for 'Action and Adventure'and 'Use of Audio' at the gaming industry BAFTAs in London on Tuesday 23rd October, making it the most successful European studio at the ceremony.
ConsoleAddicted published a screenshot from Crackdown that proves the fact that advertisement is possible through Xbox Live. The ads in Crackdown ( seen in the photo attached) are also in the local language of the Xbox Live User. This is maybe a reason why lately Microsoft have been filtering IP and due to this fact several problems with buying items from Marketplace appeared.
Celebrations all round at the home of fellow Dundonian coders Real Time Worlds today. Their first exclusive title for Xbox 360 yesterday won the top award for innovation at the Develop Conference currently being held in Brighton, UK.Designed by coding legend David Jones, creator of Lemmings, Blood Money and the original GTA - Crackdown arrived[...]
Crackdown developer Realtime Worlds has picked up a whopping seven nominations, the most ever for one studio in the event's five-year history.
In November 2006, Bungie and Microsoft announced there would be a Halo 3 multiplayer beta launched in the spring. In February 2007, Microsoft released Crackdown and promised the hundreds of thousands who bought it they'd have first-day access to the beta. On April 10, the beta received an official launch date, May 16, and an end date, June 6. Gamers became anxious as press and select "Friends and Family" were allowed early access late last week, but 5:00 a.m. PST on May 16 wasn't far off.
Just in time for the kick off of the Halo 3 Beta!
Kotaku.com recently got news that the new Crackdown downloadable content has given people problems with losing saved content.