GamersFirst has been in the news a lot lately thanks to the purchase of All Points Bulletin. GamersFirst CTO and COO Bjorn Book-Larsson has posted a lengthy blog entry about the increased attention and some details about what will be coming down the pike in the coming weeks and months and spends a lot of time talking about game balance. Book-Larsson also reveals that several former Realtime Worlds devs are working with the team as independent contractors.

Our Team and Former Contractors
Our team actually deserves an entire blog update on their own. So this post won’t cover the things going on with the team. That will come in due time, since as we get closer to launch I actually want people to know the individuals involved in this effort, given the influence key people will have on the title.

But the exciting update this week is that we have been talking to several former APB people that worked on the title, and now have worked out deals with some of those former team members that will be doing some work as independent contractors during the transition. Since we do not yet have a UK entity or UK company, we might be working toward setting that up in the future. We currently have offices in the US, Turkey, Brazil and India, and have been looking to add a European office as well. So certainly the location of some team members is something we will consider going forward (though of course the weather in California beats Scotland any day .

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