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APB Reloaded video hints strongly about open beta testing

by John Callaham Mar 26th 2011 @ 3:00PM

APB Reloaded must be getting close to launching its open beta test. Otherwise, why else would the following video show up on the internet? The fictional TV news network of the game's San Paro city is shown saying that over 150,000 people are about ready to storm the gates that were erected last year.

In APB Reloaded code, that likely means that the GamersFirst dev team are just about ready to let all the people who signed up to test the relaunch of the MMO first person shooter hit the virtual streets and start shooting each other. Oh, and there's an Anchorman nod at the end.

Filed under: FPS, MMO, Video

APB Reloaded developer to open new studio in Scotland

by John Callaham Mar 24th 2011 @ 10:00PM

What comes around apparently goes around for APB Reloaded. The first person shooter MMO started its life in Scotland at developer Realtime Worlds only to have both the game and the developer shut down operations a few months after APB went live back in 2010. Now the team behind the game's upcoming revival, GamersFirst, has decided to open up a new development studio in Scotland.

The BBC reports that GamersFirst's subsidiary Reloaded Productions will open the new studio in Edinburgh with 22 people hired at first. Realtime Worlds was based in Dundee and when it shut down last fall it caused 250 people to lose its jobs. Meanwhile the revival of APB Reloaded is still in closed beta testing with an open beta to start later this year.

Filed under: MMO

All Points Bulletin (APB) officially acquired by GamersFirst/K2 Network

by John Callaham Nov 16th 2010 @ 9:30AM

The word got leaked last week but now GamersFirst has made it official. In a press released issued this morning the free-to-play gaming web site owned by K2 Network announced that it has acquired the publishing rights and the assets to All Points Bulletin (APB), the first person shooter MMO that was first developed and released by Realtime Worlds. As many of you already know, the game was released last June but poor reviews and a lack of players forced Realtime Worlds to shut down only a few months later.

GamersFirst acquired the APB rights from Realtime Worlds' bankruptcy administrator and it will be developed by its subsidiary Reloaded Productions for a relaunch as a free-to-play online only game with micro-transaction support of in-game content. It's scheduled to go live to the public sometime in the first half of 2011. It will also get a name change to APB: Reloaded. This is not the first time that GamersFirst has taken on a game that got shut down somewhere else. Earlier this year it took over the US publishing duties of 9Dragons, a fantasy RPG that was previously run by Acclaim before it was closed down.

Big Download chatted with GamersFirst Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer Bjorn Book-Larsson on Monday morning about the APB acquisition and you can check out what we learned from him after the jump:

Gallery: All Points Bulletin (APB) Screenshots