The developer, responsible for Xbox 360 game Crackdown, claims this is the first it's heard of it, and would only reveal that the team resecured the rights to APB to "give themselves some options".

"One of which is to launch it and support it themselves, and the other one is to look for another partner; someone else who may well be interested and have the infrastructure [to support it]," a spokesperson for RTW told Eurogamer.