APB PS3-bound in 2009

As first revealed on the last day of March, Crackdown creators Realtime Worlds have secured a $50 million loan to fund its ambitious contemporary massively multiplayer online game APB. First announced in 2005, APB springs from the mind of Grand Theft Auto creator Dave Jones, and pits players on both sides of the law in a kill-or-be-killed urban warfare environment. As shown during a presentation during the 2008 Game Developers Conference, the game eschews many of the traditional precepts of the MMOG space, banking on gamers desire to earn street cred in lieu of monotonous leveling and questing.

While the news of the cash infusion was less than new, the Dundee, Scotland-based developer officially announced that it had secured the additional funding yesterday, triggering a fresh wave of mainstream media reports. One such outlet, Edinburgh daily The Scotsman, landed an interview with Realtime Worlds creative director and president Dave Jones, and from it sprung a font of thus far unannounced details on the title.