Hellgate: London

By William Dobson If you're not up on the history of this title, now (at its new beginning) seems a good time for us to sum things up. It started out as a way for Flagship Studios to test their networking technology for the then-upcoming Hellgate: London, but soon grew into a popular game in its own right through...

 CA Runic Games, staffed development leads on Diablo, Diablo II, Diablo II: Lord of Destruction, Fate, Hellgate: London and Mythos, is developing Torchlight, an action-packed massively multiplayer online role-playing game. Being developed by Runic Games' ...

Nach dem Untergang des Mutterstudios Flagship Studios im Juli 2008 gingen die Rechte von Mythos an HanbitSoft über. HanbitSoft erhielt auch das Vertriebsrecht für Hellgate: London - das allerdings nur für den asiatischen Raum. ... Mythos: Das Action-RPG ist noch am Leben! DemoNews.de

Gamasutra  NC When the good ship Flagship Studios went under last year, some mourned the loss of the tragically fated Hellgate London. Others were more distraught over the loss of Mythos, a sort of lighthearted mini-Diablo MMOG that some Flagshippers had whipped up. ...

 UK The game was presumed dead following the collapse of developer Flagship, although HanbitSoft have now confirmed that they're working on Mythos - in addition to Hellgate: London, Flagship's other RPG. "Mythos is currently in a good condition where it's ...

Action Trip Many Runic Gamers worked on the almost-successful Diablo-inspired Hellgate: London, and worked on the great -- but never publicly released -- Mythos game (screenshot above). The key players from this pedigree are Max Schaefar, CEO, and Travis Baldree, ...

Schaefer is a Blizzard veteran, having played a major role in the creation of Diablo, Diablo II, and Warcraft III before moving to Flagship Studios and producing Hellgate London and the free-to-play action-RPG Mythos. With Flagship Studios gone, ...

By Tipa I felt sure that by the end of the year, I’d be totally engulfed in the one sure-fire hit MMO of the year, Flagship Studio’s Mythos. I’ve played a lot of Diablo clones, and even some, like Cronous, that try and take the action RPG into the MMO realm, but none had nailed it like Mythos. Even before t...

 CA - Nov 6, 2008 Korean publisher and developer HanbitSoft has officially announced that it owns the IPs for Flagship Studios' Hellgate: London and Mythos and is actively ...

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Gamasutra announced today that HanbitSoft, the owners of Hellgate: London and Mythos IPs, are already working on both games in a newly formed US studio and planning for a relaunch soon! Info and link after the jump.

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Korean publisher and developer HanbitSoft has officially announced that it owns the IPs for Flagship Studios' Hellgate: London and Mythos and is actively working on a Hellgate expansion, despite the scheduled termination of Hellgate's ...

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 CA - Nov 3, 2008 Korean publisher and developer HanbitSoft, which claims to own the IPs for Flagship Studios' Hellgate: London and Mythos titles, plans to continue ...

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Korean publisher and developer HanbitSoft has officially announced that it owns the IPs for Flagship Studios' Hellgate: London and Mythos and is actively working on a Hellgate expansion, despite the scheduled termination of Hellgate's servers by operator Namco Bandai. Hellgate gen...

In a surprising move, Korean studio/publisher HanbitSoft has confirmed that it has acquired the IP and source code for Flagship Studios' Hellgate: London and Mythos. Flagship shut its doors earlier in the year, with Hellgate publisher ...

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By James Egan There have been so many twists and turns with the future of Hellgate: London (and Mythos) that it's hard to know what will happen next. We've heard on a few occasions that Hellgate: London was about to face its demise, only to be saved. Adding to the confusion was the dispute over who even owned...

By Sp3tSnAz HanbitSoft now owns both Hellgate: London, online action RPG and Mythos, casual MMORPG, once used to be developed by Flagship Studios. HanbitSoft now acquires IP (Intellectual Property) including the engines and source codes of both well made titles.

By Kyle Stallock This recent announcement, while unfortunate, should surprise almost no one. In early July of this year, Flagship made "significant staff cuts," despite previously denying such claims. A few days later, the company closed its doors and lost ownership of both Hellgate: London and Mythos....

 Virginia - Oct 13, 2008 the former co-founder of Flagship Studios David Brevin, developer of Mythos and Hellgate: London, will become the Creative Director for the new studio. ...

 - 1Up is running a lengthy interview with Bill Roper, founder of Flagship Studios. The game company, known primarily for its Hellgate: London and Mythos ...

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 - Aug 19, 2008 We tried to be a standalone game and a free-play game and an MMO and an RPG and a shooter. We were trying to be something for everybody and ended up really ... Bill Roper Talks Hellgate, Mythos, and Blizzard Slashdot Bill Roper: 'I've been sleeping on the floor' CVG Online

 - Formerly of Blizzard Entertainment, Roper's company is currently best known for its work on Hellgate: London, but as Roper points out in the interview ...

By Soulskill 1Up is running a lengthy interview with Bill Roper, founder of Flagship Studios. The game company, known primarily for its Hellgate: London and Mythos titles, announced massive layoffs last month, and is now simply winding down and ...

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By Morvelaira Flagship Studios rocked the gaming world last month at it's sudden closing - and the subsequent rumors about the fate of it's two games, Hellgate: London and Mythos, are still flying. Now Bill Roper, founder and CEO of Flagship speaks, ...

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By Jeff Green The rumors and dirt have been flying ever since Flagship Studios -- makers of Hellgate: London and Mythos -- announced massive layoffs on July 11, 2008 and subsequently lost the rights to both games. Until now, we've heard nothing from the normally high-profile and media-friendly Bill R...

 - Aug 15, 2008 Though Flagship Studios CEO Bill Roper previously stated that the Hellgate: London and Mythos developer was not shutting down despite having laid off most ...

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 NY - Designed by former Blizzard employees, the game was often billed as the Diablo clone from the guys who actually made Diablo -- not a bad pedigree to have in ... The Return of Hellgate and Mythos? Crispy Gamer all 2 news articles

 - Jul 31, 2008 Both Hellgate: London and Mythos have already amassed a certain amount of popularity among the MMORPG community. With the recent problems Flagship Studios ... The Continuing Saga of Flagship Studios RPGamer.com all 2 news articles

By Enrico S. Speaking of Flagship Studios, it was also revealed that one of their IPs, Hellgate: London, was picked up by Namco Bandai. It looks like they're going full blast with this and have already opened a webpage specifically for the game on ...

By Tim Y. The move has certainly rocked more than just Hellgate: London, with development on another of Flagship's MMOs coming to a literal standstill. Link: Bill Roper: Flagship Studios still alive Link: Mythos: Development team says goodbye to ...

By Matt Warner It wasn't long ago that Max Schaefer, a Flagship Studios cofounder and operations chief, admitted to mistakes that the company encountered with Hellgate: London. Now, in a strange twist of irony the players are learning firsthand the lessons of Flagship's failures. The Mythos beta ende...

By Samuel Axon Filed under: Fantasy, Sci-fi, Forums, News items, Hellgate: London, MythosFlagship Studios rep Tiggs announced last night on the official Mythos and Hellgate London forums that both forums will be shutting down effective midnight tonight. The message was very brief, and didn't give...

By Tim Y. The effects of Flagship Studios' recent mass lay-offs have far-reaching consequences impacting more than just Hellgate: London. Over at the Mythos forums, project lead and programmer Travis Baldree recently wrote a goodbye letter to the ...

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By Matt Warner Filed under: Betas, Fantasy, Forums, MMO industry, New titles, News items, MythosMythos beta testers are experiencing a rollercoaster of emotions as they await official word on what will happen to Mythos. The bad news struck Friday, July 11th. It was confirmed that the ranks were culled...

By Akela Talamasca Although our previous coverage of Flagship Studios -- creators of Mythos and Hellgate: London -- mentioned that a large, undisclosed portion of the staff were laid off, it was only today that we discovered the true extent of the damage. Our mothership site Joystiq has posted the news that...

 CA - In a recent interview with Eurogamer, Max Schaefer, co-founder of Flagship Studios, admitted his company tried to do too much with Hellgate: London, ...

By Sol Invictus All our Directors and Founders are still working at Flagship, and all of them are working on Hellgate: London or Mythos. The team size for Hellgate is as big now as when we shipped. We are putting all of our efforts into these projects and I think it will show in the upcoming Hellgate Abyss Chron...

By James Murff Filed under: Patches, MMO, RPG. The folks over at Flagship Studios have laid the details on us regarding their new 2.0 and 2.1 patches for Hellgate: London. On top of the new Overworld addition to Mythos, they sure seem busy over there ...

By Tateru Nino With all the buzz about Flagship Studios' upcoming game, Hellgate: London, it hasn't been difficult to forget their subsidiary studio Flagship Seattle, who are currently beta-testing their own new MMO, Mythos. Continue reading Flagship's other MMO - Mythos nearing release