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!


February 17, 2011
PC

More Than 100,000 Register For APB Reboot

When it stopped taking applications last night, the new owner of APB, the cops-and-robbers MMO, said it had more than 100,000 requests to participate in the beta for APB: Reloaded, a free-to-play reboot.


January 27, 2011
News

APB’s Getting The Beta-Testing Band Back Together

Beta-testing invitations for APB: Reloaded, the free-to-play reboot of the cops-and-robbers MMO, have gone out, apparently to beta testers of the original ill-fated MMO. Beta players will return to San Paro, with their old characters intact.


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 21, 2010
News

Global Agenda Woos Distraught APB Players

Taking advantage of the closure of Realtime Worlds’ All-Points Bulletin, Hi-Rez Studios is giving APB refugees 30 per cent off the purchase of its massively multiplayer online shooter Global Agenda.


September 17, 2010

Gears Of War Studio To Buy Failed MMO?

MMO title All Points Bulletin failed and took its developer with it. So why on Earth would a company as successful as Epic Games be interested in buying the rights to the game?


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.


September 7, 2010
News

APB Developer’s Social Game Project Snapped Up By Mystery Buyer

Realtime Worlds, the UK developer of cops-and-robbers title APB, has entered administration.


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?