APB: Reloaded Articles
GamersFirst CTO and COO Bjorn Book-Larsson has penned a new blog post about All Points Bulletin. He stresses that, as the company's name implies, regular updates are required in order to keep "gamers first". In this particular post, Book-Larsson discusses the differences between basic and premium accounts in APB once the game goes live in early 2011.
GamersFirst has been in the news a lot lately thanks to the purchase of All Points Bulletin. GamersFirst CTO and COO Bjorn Book-Larsson has posted a lengthy blog entry about the increased attention and some details about what will be coming down the pike in the coming weeks and months and spends a lot of time talking about game balance. Book-Larsson also reveals that several former Realtime Worlds devs are working with the team as independent contractors.
The official word has come about the purchase and future publication of All Points Bulletin by Reloaded Productions, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Gamersfirst. Reloaded has purchased the intellectual property rights to APB. The game will be published sometime in the first half of 2011.
K2 Network, the money behind GamersFirst, has been revealed as the buyer of beleaguered MMO, All Points Bulletin. According to GamesIndustry.biz, K2 Network purchased APB for $2,420,100.00 with the publisher expressing hope that the MMO shooter will be available again before the end of 2010.
Not every All Points Bulletin player is being treated equally. Players who purchased APB through Steam are not being offered a refund but some have commented that EA has offered them a free game as recompense. Some folks who downloaded the game digitally are reporting that they've received a partial refund. Box owners, however, are not so lucky, according to a report at Gamasutra.
Today, we learned that Realtime Worlds' first foray into the world of MMOs will be closing down. All Points Bulletin, better known in the gaming community as APB, has, according to the game;'s website, "come to a premature end."
In a short note on the official All Points Bulletin site, devs have announced the release of the 1.4.2 patch on Thursday, September 16th. The patch will bring the PureSkill ruleset online among other things. We've got the full post for you.
Develop is reporting that Realtime Worlds' Project MyWorld has been purchased by an "anonymous US firm". According to the article, beleaguered All Points Bulletin is not part of the deal leaving its fate unknown. Last week twenty three former RTW employees were rehired to work on MyWorld but it remains to be seen whether or not the new buyer will keep them on board to finish the project.
Realtime Worlds has announced that the deployment of the 1.4.1 patch for All Points Bulletin is a go for today. The full patch notes have yet to be released but devs have indicated that they will be upon the successful launch of the patch on all servers.
Realtime Worlds, developer of the embattled All Points Bulletin currently in 'administration' and looking for a buyer, has announced that its flagship title has 130,000 registered players that average four hours of playtime per day. These figures come from Realtime Worlds' administrator, Paul Dounis.
Due to 'interest' from potential buyers, twenty three employees have been offered the opportunity to come back on board at Realtime Worlds, according to administrator Ken Pattullo. The employees approached by administrators are those who were working on the recently announced MyWorld project.
In the MMORPG.com staff blog, Bill Murphy discusses Realtime Worlds' developers who had come from the Crackdown series and whether or not it might have been wiser (or cooler) to have made APB more Crackdown-esque. Read Bill's thoughts and then add your own on our forums.
In a pair of announcements by joint administrator Paul Dounis, of business rescue and restructuring specialist Begbies Traynor, there is a lot of interest "on both sides of the Atlantic" to purchase RealTime Worlds, the developers of All Points Bulletin. The announcement also indicated that support for APB will continue in both the US and in Europe with new updates will continue during the company's restructuring phase.
Realtime Worlds, developers of All Points Bulletin, has entered "into administration" which has been confirmed by Gamasutra. Entering into administration is indicative of the creditors seizing assets. The matter has not yet been adjudicated in court so it appears it is one step ahead of all-out court ordered bankruptcy.
According to two independent reports from GamesIndustry.biz and VG247.com, Realtime Worlds has cut 60 jobs mainly from the team charged with developing Project: My World. Last month, Realtime Worlds announced that it was restructuring and that 'redundant' jobs would be cut but indicated that the number of jobs lost would be relatively minor and that several individuals would be moved fulltime to the APB team. The new reports from inside sources seem to show otherwise.