On the official APB: Reloaded blog GamersFirst CTO and COO Bjorn Book-Larsson said the company is looking for 6,000 to 8,000 qualified PC gamers to run the game through its paces sometime in February.
"As part of this process it's critical we gather data on as many diverse machines and systems as possible," Book-Larsson wrote. "Thus we need to get as many normal, common, uncommon, unusual, strange, weird and just plain odd system configurations into the beta as possible."
To register for the beta, submit your email address here in the "stay up to date" box, and create a GamersFirst account (preferably with the same email address).
Roughly two weeks before the closed beta begins sometime in February, GamersFirst will send an email to all those who registered that will include a link to activate the beta request. Registrants will then be required to provide information about their rigs, themselves, and their background as gamers.
"So far we have received about 20,000 emails that have registered their interest in the game at the above location, and we do expect that about 10%-20% of players who sign up for the email notification will in fact fulfill all our closed beta registration requirements," Book-Larsson stated.
In addressing various questions from players/paid subscribers of the original APB, Book-Larsson added that it does plan on allowing those unfortunate gamers to reclaim their characters at the time the original game shut down in one way or another.