In his latest APB: Reloaded blog entry, GamersFirst CTO and COO Bjorn "TechMech" Book-Larsson has posted a recap of the first week of closed beta. While the bulk of the post is mainly technical, he does emphasize that the closed beta is not a live game and is being held for testing purposes:

"The entire purpose of CB is to validate the basic game systems, work out all game balance issues, solve server lag, identify any performance problems, identify any unexpected crashes and identify serious game play or progression issues. ... Let's be clear - there are SEVERAL of these issues in the game that we are working on right now. Therefore the biggest help for the team are well written bug reports of issues that you encountered in the game or details of any unexpected behaviors that you can document thoroughly."

So far, 10,000 people have been invited into the beta, and GamersFirst has seen a consistent peak of 1,200 concurrent users during this initial test. More invites will probably be sent out this week; after all, GamersFirst still has approximately 140,000 more people to let in at some point.

In other closed beta news, GamersFirst has posted three vehicle showcase videos on the APB: Reloaded Facebook page. Check them out after the jump.