Having suffered an awkward and early demise, online open world crime shooter All Points Bulletin is being revived as a free to play online game going under the name of APB: Reloaded.

The application for the first closed beta of the new game is already over with nearly one hundred thousand people applying throughout the US and Europe. The beta is set to really start up on February 28^th, so we can only find out then if the game will surpass the original APB.

Thanks to APB: Reloaded blog for the info.

The Worms will be back on August 26.

And don’t fix what isn’t broken, right? The developers have said that they won’t be making many changes to the core mechanics when the little critters crawl onto screens in all their 2D goodness later this month.

The main new features come in the form of new weapons. While there will be many of the classics- armageddon, concrete donkeys, napalm strikes, and the holy hand grenades- some new ways to disembowl your fellow Worm will also be available in Reloaded, such as poison strikes, electromagnets, ferrets and sentry guns.

Check out the trailer below.