US Definite Buys Realtime Worlds Game

MyWorld, a amicable gaming plan being created by the Dundee-based company, was paid for for an undisclosed sum, a orator for Begbies Traynor said.

Bafta-winning Realtime Worlds was founded by the author of Lemmings and Grand Theft Auto, Dave Jones.

It was seen as a of the UK's greatest gaming firms until its collapse.

The definite in use about 250 people, primarily in Dundee, but moreover at its primogenitor company head office and online operations bottom in Colorado.

Realtime was put in to the hands of administrators in August.

The company re-employed 23 staff, who had been laid off, to work on MyWorld in an endeavor to capture promising buyers.

A Begbies Traynor orator said: "One hundred per cent confidentiality has been imposed by the company.

"MyWorld has been sole and sadly you cannot divulge any serve sum of the sale."

Dundee MP Jim McGovern welcomed the growth but added: "I titillate the company and any promising buyers of the other sections of Realtime Worlds to sustain a participation in the city.

"I apprehension that the coalition's preference to throw the P.C. games attention taxation break has done the box for Dundee ample more tough than it need be.

"I am nonetheless to take a suitable reply on this situation from the UK supervision and I will go on dire them right away that council has returned."

In an residence to representatives at the Digital Spark Intellectual Property discussion at Abertay University final month, Scottish enlightenment apportion Fiona Hyslop strike out at the UK government's preference to desert skeleton for taxation breaks for games companies.

The comfort was cancelled as segment of a raft of cost-saving measures in the bill in June.

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