Pioneering Dundee-based computer games company Realtime Worlds has gone into administration putting hundreds of jobs at risk. The company, founded by the creator of Lemmings and Grand Theft Auto, employs about 250 people and was seen as one of the biggest players in the global computer games market.

Their new online game APB, having spent 5 years in development, launched only a few weeks ago, but according to the company bombed ‘due to mediocre commentary from the critics’. Thoughts and best wishes must go out to the 60 staff that were made redundant last week at Realtime Worlds, and another 200 staff employed by them in Dundee, awaiting their fate.