Realtime Worlds has revealed that a buyer could emerge for APB.
The latest patch update for the game said that the studio's period of administation could be coming to an end.
"It looks like there might be light at the end of the tunnel for APB. The end of the administration process is apparently close and there appears to be a buyer for the game."
Earlier this month it was announced that negotiations were ongoing with several interested groups.
Last month it was announced that the MMO would be shut down following the Dundee-based studio going into administration earlier this year.
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Just like the music industry, success can a hard thing to come by in video games. Some developers who stumble upon a blockbuster manage to turn one success into another and pump out hit after hit. Others simply spend years slogging it out with low-budget or licensed titles for no reward. One-hit wonders, however, crack the big-time just once, nailing a product everyone remembers but failing to ever reach those giddy heights again.
Omg I am shocked they put Berzerk from the Atari 2600 on there. I love that game, it was so much fun.
As a kid, that game scared the crap outta me. I only played it when I wanted to NOT play Centipede or Joust(and I ALWAYS wanted to play them). And when I did, I could only play a few levels before I was freaked out.
It was a secondhand copy without the manual, and I have no idea how I figured out how to play, but somehow I did, and somehow I enjoyed it while I was terrified.
More recently Spiderman Shattered Dimensions was awesome too. The Activision saw the money and told those guys that they would be making Spiderman games from now on. A year later they released Edge of Time which bombed in sales and in reviews. Now because of Activision's broken system, the same developer has 8 months to put out the next Spiderman game which also looks like complete ass.
The same thing happened with the guys who made Transformers War for Cybertron, a year to make the next game (which was ass) and now because of that they have only a year to make Fall of Cybertron which more then likely will be ass but we will have to wait and see about that one. Activision will close these 2 studios in the next 12 months.
Scotland-based developers Realtime Worlds created the critically acclaimed Xbox 360 title, Crackdown. They seemed to have a bright future ahead. Unfortunately, that was not to be the case...
It would be very great if someone bought this game, fixed it, and improved upon it for those that spent their cash on it.