It may not have registered in your radar when Realtime Worlds reacquired the license for the cops-and-robbers MMORPG All Points Bulletin weeks back. But rumor has it that APB will be pitched to Rockstar Games as Grand Theft Auto Online. More details after the jump.

While it's a fairly common practice for an MMORPG to have one company as a developer and the other as a distributor, there are cases wherein one company takes on both roles. Such is the case with Realtime Worlds, which recently regained global distribution rights to the MMORPG All Points Bulletin. More on this in the full article after the jump.

RealTime Worlds has raised another US$ 50 million from investors. The cash is rumored to be used to fund All Points Bulletin, a game revealed at the last Game Developers Conference. To find out more, head on over to the full article.

Gamers have long clamored for a sequel to RealTime Worlds' Crackdown, but the gaming development studio has something possibly even better in store for their fans. In the recent GDC 2008 event, RealTime Worlds' Dave Jones showed off APB, an MMO that doesn't involve grinding, just a lot of style and cop-and-robber shooting. Read more about it in the full article.

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Independent video game developer Realtime Worlds received a whopping US $ 31 million from New Enterprise Associates (NEA) to build new video game franchises and recruit top programming and game development talent from around the world. Realtime Worlds is currently polishing its first exclusive Xbox 360 game, Crackdown, set to be released sometime 2007. In addition,  the company is also working on All Points Bulletin, an original MMOG for PC and Xbox 360 in partnership with Korea">Webzen of Korea.

Realtime World said the big bucks will allow them to do "extraordinary things." One of those extraordinary things would be developing a global centre of excellence for some of the world’s best games developers. Some of the money will also go into building "new gaming experiences" for the Xbox 360 and PC.