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APB coming to Xbox 360 in 2008

Grand Theft Auto creator's cops-and-robbers MMORPG will cruise onto Microsoft's next-gen console in three years.

In February, the creator of the first Grand Theft Auto made public plans to bring automotive mayhem to the massively multiplayer online role-playing game genre. Scottish game designer David Jones announced the formation of a new studio, Real Time Worlds Ltd., whose first game, All Points Bulletin (APB), would be a massively multiplayer online role-playing game set in "a highly volatile world filled with dramatic car chases, shootouts, busts, escapes, and arrests." Korean MMORPG publisher Webzen signed on to publish the game.

While APB was originally announced solely for the PC, rumors of a console version sprang up last week. That's when Jones sealed a deal with Microsoft to develop games for its next-gen console, the Xbox 360. Seeing how APB was Real Time Worlds' sole project, many suspected it would be only a matter of time until a 360 version was announced.

It didn't take long. Today, Webzen and RTW announced that, yes, APB will indeed be released for the Xbox 360 in 2008, around one year after the PC version ships. "We are confident APB will take full advantage of Xbox 360's impressive capabilities," said Webzen CEO Nam Ju Kim. The game will be Webzen's second for the 360, after the postapocalyptic shooter Huxley.

For a closer look at the PC version of APB, check out GameSpot's E3 2005 preview.

12 Comments

  • kickblocker

    Posted Jul 9, 2010 8:38 pm GMT

    coming in 2008? gee, i think they are a little behind

  • XxyoboyxX

    Posted Jul 6, 2010 6:59 am GMT

    xbox=poop

  • kasrayaraei

    Posted Jun 29, 2010 3:36 am GMT

    Xbox360,
    Yeah coolllllllllllllll.

  • joecwild

    Posted Jul 31, 2009 3:39 pm GMT

    LIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • hmaxpain

    Posted Feb 22, 2008 2:07 pm GMT

    rejoice this game is coming! and its 2008 ppl hopefully we will get a solid release date

  • jdukes247

    Posted Sep 18, 2007 3:21 pm GMT

    this could be the next GTA... that is if they ever can get it the shelves.... anyone know of a release date?

  • Holopaw

    Posted Sep 16, 2007 5:59 pm GMT

    sure hope this game makes it.

  • supastaa88

    Posted Jul 1, 2007 1:55 pm GMT

    Ah, it'll be great.
    Just to point out, though, APB came out in, like, the eighties, i think, and the Grand Theft Auto games were based off of that formula, so as the father of GTA, it will need to be good.

  • smurfa1

    Posted Apr 30, 2007 7:55 am GMT

    Ohh can't wait until I hear more about it. Hope that it wont be abandoned though as Frame City Killer was.

  • jakeboudville

    Posted Aug 30, 2006 9:14 pm GMT

    cool

  • ExcAREentric

    Posted Apr 17, 2006 3:25 pm GMT

    Heh, i really don't care much. They are talking about the creators of the original GTA right?

  • swanlord

    Posted Feb 28, 2006 7:17 pm GMT

    X360 rul3s

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