Possessively one of the most rumored games in the passed year, or so, it seems that the sequel to the hit 360 exclusive, Crackdown, maybe coming to reality very soon. It was apparently brought back in to rumor when the all-but-official arrival of Scottish developer Ruffian Games.

The team at Ruffian Games is composed of some of the key members of the original Crackdown development group, which brought up the Crackdown 2 rumor because the company is funded Microsoft.

Now, VideoGaming24/7 is reporting that Realtime Worlds studio head Colin MacDonald has confirmed the developer is in “ongoing” discussions with Microsoft regarding a another Crackdown game, Crackdown 2.

MacDonald said that while an offer to develop a second game hadn’t been made to Realtime Worlds, he “very much” doubts “that Microsoft would harm an otherwise fruitful existing development relationship by gambling on funding Crackdown 2 with a startup on RTW’s doorstep, for obvious reasons.”