Ruffian Games (now Rockstar Dundee) is the developer of Crackdown 2.
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Located in Dundee, Scotland it is a company that was started by three people in 2008 and grew into a big company. As of October 2020, now it is Rockstar Dundee. This is Rockstar's second Scottish studio. (due to being bought by Rockstar Games the creators of games mostly Grand Theft Auto, Max Payne, and Red Dead).
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Wilson and lead designer Billy Thomson had previously confirmed that Crackdown was designed from the outset to be a long running series of games, stating that sequels for the game are very likely to be produced, especially if Crackdown performed well commercially.
However, during the Industry All Stars event in September 2007, Wilson confirmed that Realtime Worlds was not working on a sequel to the game, saying "Microsoft [was] a little late in stepping up to the plate to ask for Crackdown 2, and by then we had already started working on bigger, better things".
However, Shane Kim, a corporate vice-president for Microsoft, states that Microsoft still holds the intellectual property rights for Crackdown and that a Crackdown sequel is still a possibility. Realtime Studios manager Colin MacDonald clarified that if they have the resources after completion of APB, they could approach Microsoft to discuss a sequel. Industry reports that Ruffian Games, a Scottish studio formed from members from the Realtime Worlds team, may be involved in the development of a Crackdown sequel.