APB Reloaded, GamersFirst, Acquired By Little Orbit
Little Orbit has picked up APB Reloaded along with the GamersFirst portal that has published the game since 2011. The game was originally developed and published by Realtime Worlds, which famously burned through its assets and shut down the original, pay-to-play, version of the game in just 80 days.
Little Orbit's website shows three games front and center: Descent Underground, Unsung Story, and Adventure Time: Finn and Jake Investigations. The "My Games" pull-down also lists Kung Fu Panda: Showdown of Legendary Legends. According to VentureBeat, Little Orbit CEO Matthew Scott said the company is moving away from licensed games, due to the complex and time-consuming approval processes required and the need to take down the games once the license expired, which is apparently what happened the Adventure Time games.
The company won't have that problem with the unlicensed APB Reloaded. In the press release announcing the sale, Little Orbit promises "an aggressive update plan, including better and more consistent communication, a clean up of the forums, a new content roadmap and a complete rework of the banning and cheating procedures," as well as an upgrade to Unreal 4.
You'd think that when APB Reloaded got acquired by another company, it would have involved fast cars and lots of high-caliber handguns. But no, it appears that today's news is your typical business transaction. Maybe the deal was made with small, unmarked bills stuffed into a duffel bag?
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They should use all the games mechanics and re code it into a new game. Its that simple.
Ppl. say that APB is poor man GTA5 ,but truth is that RockStar should learn from APB thing ot two.
The game has Huge Potential, if Little Orbit does it right and gets the things done we might see a huge revival of the game. It might actually become a really big game, that's wishful thinking but still, I invest thousands into the game and I obviously don't want to see it die like that. Tho I stopped playing years ago.
Put thousands of hours in this gem, hope it does revive and it goes into better hands.
Gamerfirst is not taht well known, but it's just like Aeriagames... maybe worst.