APB beta registration opens
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Realtime Worlds has opened up applications to take part in the beta test of its hotly anticipated crime MMO, APB.
It's no guarantee of access, naturally, and there's still no word on when the beta might start, although Realtime estimated August when we spoke to them at E3 in June.
APB will be a subscription-free action game set in cities of around 100 players, with factions of gangsters and enforcers chasing and shooting each other around the streets, GTA-style. Console versions have been bandied about, but it's only confirmed for PC release in "early 2010" at the moment, published by EA.
Read our E3 preview for more, and watch our for further details on APB emerging from this week's gamescom in Cologne.