Earlier rumors suggesting that Realtime Worlds’ chairman Ian Hetherington is still on the Project MyWorld development have proven correct, as it has been reported that Hetherington along with venture capitalist Patrick Chung and financier Harry Weller have purchased the game.
The three games industry vets purchased the game amidst the collapse of the now defunct Realtime Worlds. Hetherington, along with Weller and Chung, formed Kimble Operations a month after the release of the doomed APB while seeking the rights to Project MyWorld.
A former lead artist on MyWorld who is no longer attached to the program has told Gamasutra that Kimble Operations has snagged the rights to the game.
"MyWorld was bought a few weeks back by Kimble Operations which is basically Ian Hetherington as he wanted the project to get to market," Tahir Rashid said. "There are 20 people left from the original MyWorld team that decided to stay with it. We are very pleased the project is not dead and look forward to them getting it out the door."
