

The game has been running in a closed beta for a little while now, and this new open sign-up release incorporates many of the new features and improvements that have been undergoing testing. Then you simply download the client and step into APB‘s grim, crime-riddled world. To participate, players will need to sign up for a free account at, which is hosting.

The game hasn’t gotten a final release yet, but a press release confirms that the open beta has officially launched. The time has arrived and Reloaded is now here. Realtime Worlds, the original dev, shut down in September 2010, mere months after the game’s June launch, and K2 Network picked up the license, announcing plans to re-launch APB: Reloaded as a free-to-play title. It was essentially a Grand Theft Auto MMO, set in the large, open city of San Paro, where two factions - Enforcers and Criminals - basically traded gunfire back and forth in an elaborate game of cops and robbers. APB: All Points Bulletin was a fine concept for a massively multiplayer online role-playing game that was done in, as we later found out, by mismanagement and a lack of focus on the development side that led to a below-average gameplay experience.
