Little Orbit ditches licensed games, acquiring APB Reloaded
Little Orbit has dealt in kid-friendly licensed games based on popular cartoons like Cartoon Network’s Ben 10 and DreamWorks’ Madagascar, but it’s shifting focus...
Reloaded Games takes freemium APB back to pay-for-play with APB: Vendetta
Reloaded Games saved cops-and-robbers game APB from early extinction back in 2011. Now they're looking to expand the franchise by taking it into another genre and stripping away the free-to-play model that helped make APB a huge success.
Free-to-play pioneer K2 Network merges with Reloaded Games (exclusive interview)
Reloaded Games Inc., an online games company which develops and powers leading free-to-play massively multiplayer online (MMO) games, today announced it has completed a round of financing and is finalizing a full merger with pioneering MMO publisher K2 Network Inc.
‘Give us something BIG!’: 10 of the best live-action video game trailers
For better or worse, it seems like big-budget live-action trailers for video games are here to stay. It's just as well that some publishers are doing them right, as seen in these 10 impressive examples.
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APB Reloaded: Turning a game that killed a studio into a 3-million-user success (interview)
APB Reloaded is proving that positive reviews and long-term success don't necessarily go hand-in-hand, as it flies in the face of criticism from the gaming press and continues to gain new users on a near day-to-day basis.
APB Reloaded admin lets hacking victim decide hacker’s fate
An APB Reloaded player reports his account got hacked in an official forum post. The aftermath offers a surprising (yet strangely fitting) twist.
Previously a dud, relaunched APB game gets 3 million users in a week
As one of a growing number of massively multiplayer online (MMO) games adopting a free-to-play strategy, APB Reloaded has hit a milestone of 3...
A List Games raises $9.3M to market digital games
A List Games has raised $9.3 million in a second round of seed funding so that it can continue to market games via digital distribution,...