With so much rumour swirling around, I thought I would just reproduce the official press release from administrators Begbies Traynor about the latest situation at RealTime Worlds. I’ve changed the Job Loss Tracker to total 194 job...

GamesIndustry.biz is reporting on a speech by Ed Balls, the Labour leader candidate, linking the refusal of the coalition government to implement games tax credits with the demise of RealTime Worlds. This is so wrong-headed I don’t...

I may have been hasty in adding the entire staff of RealTime Worlds to the Job Loss Tracker. GamaSutra and GamesIndustry.biz report three bits of good news: RealTime Worlds has recruited back 23 of the 60 staff...

I’ve been told it’s too early, but I think it’s worth doing a post-mortem of APB-developer RealTime Worlds. The company was put into administration yesterday. The administrator, Begbies Traynor, has said: “Our intention is to continue trading...

Rumours are swirling that APB-developer RealTime Worlds is making swingeing cuts. The team behind ambitious virtual world project MyWorld (only publicly announced last month) have been made redundant, with as many as 60 layoffs. Additionally, VG247 says...

APB from Real Time Worlds is about to become either the games industry’s Titanic or its Heaven’s Gate. I’m at the GameHorizon Conference in Gateshead and Dave Jones has just been talking about APB. It’s an incredibly...