The fighting has once again resumed in the streets of San Paro. The short-lived launch of APB (All Points Bulletin) under now defunct developer Realtime Worlds was reviled as one of the shortest lived launches and biggest failures in the industry, but through GamersFirst subsidiary Reloaded Productions, the game has been given a second chance. APB: Reloaded welcomed its first 2500 beta testers back to the streets of San Paro last night, reigniting the war between enforcers and criminals as closed beta officially kicked off.

If the servers perform like the devs hope, they plan to add new beta accounts daily. So if you've got the beta paperwork filled out, you could be shooting your way through the streets of San Paro sometime soon.

The current plan is to slowly increase the CCU count (simultaneously connected players) from a few hundred (what it is now) to just over 2,000 simultaneous players this week (which means close to 20,000 actual invitees). If THAT holds up fine, then the next really big wave is to go to 100,000 players and 10,000 simultaneous - though that leap might take a bit longer.

Source: APB: Reloaded blog