Rumour: APB heading for the MS E3 conference

FUCK YEAH!

*pumps*

I AM VEYR EXCITED TO PLAYING THIS

Good grief. Could you possibly fabricate more from such an ambiguous statement?

Why don’t you say in BIG BOLD LETTERS that he’s a cross-dresser and eats live ferrets? I mean, he didn’t actually mention anything like that but I don’t see why that should prevent you from writing a “news” story about it.

WOW!

APB for 360 CONFIRMED!!!

Note the “rumour” bit, Shatner.

Looking forward to hearing more about APB, though I wonder what it has to offer that the Agency doesn’t? Besides the gangland ambience, at least.

I SHIT ACTUAL BRICKS EVERY TIME I THINK ABOUT THIS GAME.

FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP.

@tont: Can I borrow you? I have a wall that needs building.

Bill, note this. The word “Rumour” counts for nothing. This is just purest bullshit journlism aimed to garner page hits and ad revenue. Its a fucking shambles.

Psychotext: Sorry dude, they’re bricks of excitement, drugs and war. Rubbish for walls, great for crimes.

The word “rumour” counts for everything. If readers choose to assume otherwise, they have only themselves to blame.

And even were it not clearly marked as such, this article is hardly a complete fabrication. We have a developer whose known game projects total precisely one being asked if there’s any justification to reports that said game project will see light at E3. His response is not to decry the whole thing as hogwash, but “I couldn’t possibly comment at the moment”.

No, rumour gets them off the hook on a technicality. But the rest is still purest bullshit designed to be eyecatching, to hit search engines, rss feeds and other stuff. Furthermore, people remember the details they like to remember – then when things DON’T materialise like the games media rumoured it to be whiney gamers throw their toys out of prams and blame other companies for not meeting their expectations. It’s not such an issue if people were in the habit of keeping perspective on things (which they never do – as evidenced by the comments in this article already) – but urban myth easily eclipses reality in this culture.

Again, piece-of-shit take-no-responsibility-for-what-we-say writing. The word “Rumour” is just cosmetic. Absolutely gutter-press bullshit journlism of the worst kind. Just like it was with “LBP2″ article. It’s just VG247 sending out a big internet flare saying “LOOK AT ME!”.

Just report the news, don’t go making it up.

Good god Shatner. Start your own news site or something… at least then something might live up to your unrealistic expectations.

My expectations are for a news site to deliver news, not fabricate it.

Those are in no way unrealistic expecations. If you believe they are then you’re too used to being fed bullshit and rumour to tell the difference.

Also, your comment is PRECISELY the sort of thing I was referring to where the right to express an opinion is used to suggest someone else is wrong to be expressing theirs. Well done.

Nah, I’m with Shatner all the way. It’s utter cock but what can you expect on this site and RTW. No news as usual, that’s what.

Why is Macdonald giving a quote then ‘when he couldn’t possibly comment’…?

Muppet.

@Shatner: Your opinion isn’t wrong, nor is expressing it… but you are a completely broken record at this stage.

Maybe when mart does the next version of the site he can make it so that you’ll be able to hide certain categories. You can avoid being offended by baseless rumours then.

@ contender

Possibly because there is in fact something to comment about?

@ Shatner

There is nothing “technical” or “cosmetic” about a forthright, unambiguous admission that an article is speculative in nature, and once again MacDonald’s remarks *do* provide some grounds for the idea that APB will be coming to E3.

If you’re going to take potshots at unaccountable writing, I think you can do better than this.

Is APB a 360 (console) exclusive?

No.

PC & 360, PC version almost certainly first out the door though.

What happened to the rumors Rockstar were gonna make theis Grand Theft Auto Online?

See what I did there Shat?

To be honest they haven’t even said 360

They’ve only said ‘consoles’ so far. And even ‘consoles’ haven’t been confirmed – it’s PC first.

And I watche d afew things from it, and I’d much prefer play GTA4… I mean, it looks like the multiplayer from that.

I can believe this, after all microsoft had a relationship with them for crackdown, and they dont really have anything in the MMO space.
Plus, if they gave the crackdown update thing being worked on to ex-realtime worlds people, they would want to keep them happy.
A very believable rumor…..

Shatner you can be hilarious, but i think your “cracking down” on this particular article too much…..

To be fair VG247 is just reporting what another source has first published and then qualifying that this is only rumour.

And in whatever capacity I’m pretty sure that APB will be at E3. It has to to be, the game is slated for release this year, been worked on for an eternity so RTW must have something to show for themselves.

Fully expect to see some great promo videos and gameplay. If that isn’t the case then RTW are in danger of getting into Duke Nukem Forever territory.

Think I’ve lost count how many times APB was meant to be for release. After all these years, you would *think* they had something to show…

How long has it been going on for? First mention I can find of the game is Feb 2005 where Webzen are saying in one of their financial reports they’d just signed the game and that it was due in 2007 (lol)

That makes it over 4 years old but they must have been working on it already to get the game signed.

Publishing this year means they’re at the end of a four and half year development cycle (and over 2 years late) so it’s inconceivable that they won’t have something playable for E3 representitive of the final game.

Really looking forward to it

So even if/when it does come to PC, I’d hate to think of the dev time for 360/PS3…

MMO’s are nasty fuckers to balance and get right.

Well yeah

It’s hard to take the claims that the game will be released this year.

World of Warcraft had about 18 months of open beta before full release as did Warhammer Age of Reckoning.

APB sounds like an action game, has there been any successful MMOG action games? Good luck to them both trying to make an incredibly technically difficult game of a type no one has ever seen before but it’s hard to see how they build something of this ilk without a LOT of beta test time first.

Love to be proved wrong

Confirmed that they’ll be at E3 with APB… not necessarily at the MS conference though: http://apb-evolved.com/news/70-apb-evolved-receives-exclusive-screenshot

Hahahah

GameFork Vs RTW Employee

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=monstrouk+gamefork

Monstrouk is this bloke http://www.linkedin.com/in/neilcastle

Language is a bit fruity and he seems to spend a long time on twitter