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Today at the ELSPA Games Summit industry conference in London, Peter Moore, corporate vice president, worldwide marketing and publishing, Xbox, announced that Scottish games developer Real Time Worlds has signed a partnership agreement with Microsoft to develop a number of exclusive titles for the new Xbox 360 system that puts players at the center of the most powerful next-generation games and entertainment experiences. Founded in March 2002, Real Time Worlds employs 75 people and is led by three game industry veterans who, between them, are responsible for some of the worlds most popular games. Real Time Worlds creative director David Jones, founder of DMA Design, was the creative director behind two of gamings most successful franchises, Grand Theft Auto and Lemmings. Ian Hetherington, former managing director of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, founded Psygnosis, one of the United Kingdoms first videogames publishers. Tony Harman, former director of development and acquisition for Nintendo of America, was the executive producer of the Donkey Kong Country franchise.
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