IGN’s reporting that GamersFirst’s confirmed it’s bought APB and will be bringing the RTW crime MMO back next year as a free-to-play effort.

According to the site, “APB Reloaded is currently undergoing overhauls to make it ready for its second half of 2011 comeback. Its new owner loved several things about APB before it shut down, but is taking this time to turn it into ‘a true free-to-play game,’ according to Bjorn Book-Larsson, CTO and COO of GamersFirst.”

It was rumoured last month that GamerFirst had bought the game from now-defunct Scottish developer RTW for £1.5 million.

APB went live at the end of June in the US and the beginning of July in Europe.