PC

Now Everybody Can Play APB Again For Free

Proof that you can’t keep a moderately okay multiplayer online game down, GamersFirst launches the open beta testing phase for APB: Reloaded. Welcome back to San Paro!


November 17, 2010
News

APB Goes Free-To-Play The Hard Way

In September, Realtime World’s cops and robbers MMO APB: All Points Bulletin closed its doors. In early 2011, free-to-play MMO publisher GamersFirst launches APB: Reloaded. GamersFirst CTO and COO Bjorn Book-Larsson tells Kotaku how the resurrection is going down.


November 6, 2010
News

APB’s Remains Remain Valuable, But Codemasters Isn’t Buying

“Nine months of hard work,” could salvage All Points Bulletin, the failed cops-and-robbers MMO, but don’t expect Codemasters to be the one doing the work, says the publisher’s online general manager.


September 17, 2010
News

APB Closes Its Doors After Less Than Three Months

The cops-and-robbers game from troubled Scottish developer Realtime Worlds might set the record for the shortest-lived MMO, as All Points Bulletin shuts down after a mere two and a half months in operation.


August 25, 2010
News

How Many People Are Playing APB?

Scottish developer Realtime Worlds recently entered administration, and it’s rolling out play and pay stats for the recently released All-Points Bulletin to sweeten the pot for potential buyers. Who’s playing, and what are they paying?


July 27, 2010
News

APB’s Human Avatar, The Final Stage

Realtime Worlds’ endeavour to create a human avatar modelled on APB has reached its fifth and final stage: the outfitting. And Josh didn’t do so bad.


July 16, 2010
In Real Life

APB Human Avatar Project: Stage Two

In the name of marketing, Human Avatar Josh gets an APD-themed haircut. Next stop, septum ring.


July 8, 2010
News

APB Transforms A Regular Guy Into A Pierced And Tatted Criminal

Cops and robbers MMO APB is world filled with grungy-looking criminals covered with tattoos and riddled with piercings. Now Realtime Worlds is letting fans vote on how they permanently disfigure a real human being with the Human Avatar Project.


May 1, 2010
News

An All Points Bulletin On APB’s Release Date And Pricing Structure

Realtime Worlds’ massively multiplayer sandbox game APB finally has an official release date: June 29 in North America and July 1 in Europe. How much will players have to pay to play?


September 19, 2009

APB Is So Very GTA

If the latest gameplay trailer for Realtime Worlds’ APB doesn’t have you drawing comparisons to Grand Theft Auto, then you probably haven’t played Grand Theft Auto.