HanbitSoft Inc. has announced that it has acquired the full publishing rights for Hellgate on the North American, European and Japanese markets. The previous owner of the rights was Namco Bandai but it seems that the company thought the role playing game featuring MMO elements could not bring in a profit and decided ... |
19 January 2010
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Flagship Studios may have sunk over a year ago, but Runic Games surfaced from their wreckage and is now preparing to launch a brand-new game. Torchlight will be a dungeon crawler exclusive to the PC, but Max Schaefer, Runic Games CEO, said that they would really like to bring the game to the consoles. "We talk about ... |
9 October 2009
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Even as Namco Bandai announced its plan to shut down the game server for Hellgate: London on January 31, 2009, HanbitSoft, a Korean publisher and developer, reveals that it fully owns the intellectual property related to the game and that it intends to create and later publish an expansion for the MMO.HanbitSoft was ... |
5 November 2008
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You probably still remember the news we posted a couple of weeks ago about the closure of Flagship Studios and the cancellation of Hellgate: London and Mythos, two massively multiplayer online games. Although this piece of news seemed to have no possible happy ending for the game industry, things changed since the te... |
12 August 2008
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When a videogaming company hits a rough patch, the earliest signs of trouble, apart from red underlined numbers in financial reports, are news that important people are leaving the company. It happened when Flagship Studios went down and it seems to be happening now to Midway.Mike Bilder, who joined the company somet... |
8 August 2008
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It seems that, at long last, someone is ready to step up and take over development of the legacy of Flagship Studios, which imploded last month. There are reports that T3 Entertainment, an Asian publisher, is getting ready to create a new development and support studio in the San Francisco area. There are several job... |
1 August 2008
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Hellgate: London hasn't even launched properly and gamers have already reported countless issues, such as people getting charged several times for the extra content subscription, or simply criticized the game's mechanics, which, between us gamers, we know it can't be fixed over night. Of course, Flagsh... |
12 November 2007
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RPG fans have it their way this week as Flagship Studios has officially released a playable demo of Hellgate: London. You can download the developer's first original title right HERE with confidence, as some of the team members behind Hellgate: London hail from popular titles such as Diablo, StarCraft, and WarCr... |
19 October 2007
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Blizzard once had Bill Roper & friends on the team, when developing WoW. Stuff happened, the Blizzard North boys started feeling insecure and left to form their own studio, calling it Flagship Studios. You've surely heard of it, they're currently developing their first title, Hellgate: London. Today, courte... |
3 July 2007
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