| Status | Privately Held |
| Website | realtimeworlds.com |
| Category | Software |
| Address | Dundee, GBR |
| Employees | 225 |
| Founded | 2002 |
| Total | $82.8M |
| Series A, 5/04 1 CIM Fund | $1.75M |
| Series B, 12/06 2 New Enterprise Associates | $31M |
| Series C, 3/08 3 Maverick Capital | $50M |
Realtime Worlds is a entertainment software company with a focus on video games such as Crackdown and APB. The team behind Realtime Worlds has been involved with the development of hits such as Lemmings and Grand Theft Auto.
The company is the largest independent game producer in Scotland. It also has offices in Boulder, CO and Seoul, South Korea.
It has won an two awards from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts for Crackdown.
Coming in 2008, All Points Bulletin (APB) is an original MMOG for PC being developed in partnership with Webzen of Korea. APB is a city based community game where players choose between playing the criminals or those out to catch the criminals; carry out or thwart opposed crimes and build up areas of the city you control, all with unprecedented levels of character and vehicle customisation.
| Launch Date | February, 2007 |
Released in February 2007, Crackdown is exclusive to Xbox 360, developed first-party for Microsoft. It’s a freeform action game where your character evolves special abilities so you can scale buildings and play on the rooftops, physically transform vehicles into supercars, play online co-operatively with other players and use props such as skips, lamp-posts and even cars themselves in any way imaginable to rid the city of crime.
Mobile Forces was a game developed in partnership with Rage Software.
