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Saturday, Aug 15
Mythos teaser and closed beta registration page emerges
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...
Friday, Apr 3
Hellgate: London wants to come back, it really does
Maybe Kee Young Kim, CEO of HanbitSoft, can explain it better: "HanbitSoft does own the intellectual property of Hellgate: London and is interested in providing the game in the US and Europe, but is unable to do so at this time because Namco Bandai has the publishing rights for those regio...
Thursday, Mar 19
Cryptic used NCsoft forums for beta recruiting, not really sorry though
If the name Ivan Sulic sounds familiar, you may remember him as the Hellgate: London community manager telling players concerned about the game's lack of a LAN mode, "Who the fuck cares?" Well, we're pretty sure a lot of people care nowadays, Mr. Sulic. This was all dug up by Scott Jennings, w...
Thursday, Mar 5
Hellgate: London is dead, for real this time
That's the story for the ever growing saga of Hellgate: London in a nutshell. This time, however, it's not coming back and there should be no more rumors that it is coming back. HanbitSoft, the Asian publisher of the game, has finally clarified to GameCyte that they do not have the publishing...
Monday, Feb 2
Hellgate's US/EU servers and website slam shut
The show is now over for the Hellgate: London that we once knew. The game's servers and the official website have poofed, and stranded fans will now turn their attention towards HanbitSoft's grand plans to revive the troubled title in a free-to-play format, complete with new content and g...
Wednesday, Jan 28
Bill Roper of Cryptic Studios discusses Champions Online
Filed under: Super-hero, Interviews, MMO industry, Champions OnlineMMO-centric website Allakhazam is running an interesting piece on Champions Online. Tamat, the site's Editor-in-Chief, caught up with Bill Roper, the Design Director for Champions Online at Cryptic Studios. The i...
Monday, Jan 5
Investing wisely in massively multiplayer online games
Adam Martin over at T=Machine has written just that. In the first of a two-part series, Martin provides insightful analysis of some glaring mistakes made in the MMO industry, and how some of those pitfalls could have been avoided. He does so by looking at a few of 2008's troubled massively mu...
Monday, Dec 29
The Daily Grind: The ones that got away
Filed under: Opinion, The Daily GrindOh, Hellgate: London! How could a post-apocalyptic zombie shoot 'em up have gone so very wrong? Though your servers are shutting down at the end of January, never again to return to US or European shores, we ran into this collector's edition box just y...
Thursday, Dec 4
Red 5 Studios interview: How to fail-proof your MMO
During a recent interview with Ten Ton Hammer, Red 5 Studios' Mark Kern described his views on why games like Tabula Rasa and Hellgate: London had recently failed, and how his colleagues at Red 5 are making sure an early game closure isn't in their future.
Wednesday, Nov 5
Hanbitsoft admits their Hellgate rights don't extend to US/EU
WarCry is reporting based on a press release from Namco specifically stating that they own the IP for publishing here in the states and over in Europe. Gamecyte follows that announcement up with a more detailed look, noting that Hanbitsoft would like to run the game and do some profitshari...
Monday, Nov 3
HanbitSoft plans Hellgate: London relaunch and new expansion
Filed under: Horror, Expansions, MMO industry, Hellgate: London, RumorsThe Hellgate: London IP saga continues. While we had some dire news that the servers will go dark at the end of January, we also know that development for the title is still being done in Redbana's California office... j...
Thursday, Oct 30
Hellgate London status: Purgatory
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...
Wednesday, Jul 23
Hellgate: London saved by Namco-Bandai
Filed under: Sci-fi, Hellgate: London, MMOFPSDidn't really think we'd be talking about this game ever again, but it's nice to be wrong. Tipster Matt let us know that a Senior Director for Business development has posted to the official Hellgate:London forums letting everyone know that...
Saturday, Jul 19
Max Schaefer thanks Mythos community
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...
Friday, Jul 18
Hellgate: London subscriptions suspended
Filed under: Horror, Sci-fi, Business models, MMO industry, News items, Hellgate: LondonExploring and fighting in post-apocalyptic London used to require a subscription but not anymore. Flagship Studios has announced that active Hellgate: London subscribers will not be billed no...
Mythos, Hellgate forums scheduled to die tonight
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...
Wednesday, Jul 16
Future of Mythos beta uncertain
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...
Saturday, Jul 12
Flagship Studios: It's worse than that; he's dead, Jim
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...
Thursday, Jul 10
Hellgate:London patch update 1.3d now live
Filed under: Horror, Sci-fi, Game mechanics, Patches, Hellgate: London All the scuttlebutt regarding fleeing Hellgate:London developers and programmers didn't stop the 1.3d patch from hitting the servers yesterday. The refreshing patch introduces changes to gameplay, a rebalanc...
Monday, Jul 7
Flagship holds forth on lessons learned
Filed under: Interviews, MMO industry, Hellgate: London, MythosMax Schaefer, operations chief and co-founder of Flagship Studios, is forthright about the mistakes made on Hellgate: London. In a lengthy interview with eurogamer.net he explains how that game tried to be too many thing...
Wednesday, Jun 11
Hellgate staff abandoning sinking ship
Filed under: Horror, Culture, MMO industry, Hellgate: LondonWe never like to see a developer start to go on the down and out. Even in the rare event where we find few redeemable things about a game, we understand that the developers behind the project are generally good people and we hope th...
Monday, Jun 2
Sweeping changes to Hellgate: London in Abyss Chronicles
Hell is about to get even hotter, as Flagship Studios prepares to unleash fresh content for Hellgate: London. Our sister blog Big Download has some posted new screenshots of the upcoming Abyss Chronicles for HG:L, as well as info on the 2.0 and 2.1 updates to the title. Patch 2.0 will be Hellgate...
Saturday, May 24
Hellgate: London giveths and takeths away
Flagship Studios announced some changes to Hellgate: London in the form of Patch 1.3b, which should resolve issues with the ill-fated Patch 1.3a. Indeed, the month of May has turned out to be HellPatch: London for Flagship and HG: L fans, with the patches even being patched. Some players who l...
Thursday, Apr 10
Hellgate: London would like a second chance
We all know that Hellgate: London didn't exactly have the best of launches; actually it had a very terrible launch. The biggest problem was probably all the bugs in the game, which more often than not were responsible for regular client crashes among other game-ending glitches. This sort o...
Monday, Mar 31
Hellgate: London solo players get huge patch
Flagship Studios have the patch in their final Q&A state and are readying a beta version of it for players to try out sometime this week. The patch itself contains all the content and updates that the multiplayer version of the patch had -- so essentially it's the same patch as the one rel...
Friday, Feb 8
Hellgate: London developer chat on IRC today
If you are interested in chatting with the developers of Hellgate: London and you are available at 7pm EST today, then fire up your favorite IRC client and get ready to talk to Flagship Studios. Their last developer chat was pretty candid, so if you are still playing HGL or have renewed inter...
Friday, Jan 18
Hellgate: London gets its first content update
Mark your calenders for January 21st, 2008 because that's the date when you can expect Flagship Studios' first content update to hit for Hellgate: London. The update -- titled Stonehenge Chronicles -- is expanding the game world beyond London itself, opening the areas around Stoneheng...
Thursday, Dec 20
The Stonehenge Chronicles delayed for Hellgate: London
In other patch news, Single Player Patch 0.6 is live and available for download. Multiplayer Patch 0.7 has been live since December 14th on US servers and went live December 19th on EU server Sydonai. Continue reading The Stonehenge Chronicles delayed for Hellgate: London
Saturday, Dec 1
More patches incoming for Hellgate: London
The invisible group member bug has been fixed.The bug that unequips engineer pet weapons is improved, but not fixed. There's no official word as to when Patch 0.6 will be live, but they say that Patch 0.7 will be hitting the test servers next week and therefore, we can assume that Patch 0.6 will go...
Thursday, Nov 22
The Massively Guide to the Hellgate: London Mini-game
When I was reading the Patch 0.5 notes, I came across a couple of items about the Mini-game. I bought Hellgate: London the day after it came out and have been playing ever since. I even looked at the very small manual. I knew nothing about the Mini-game. Questions to friends produced the same resul...
Wednesday, Nov 21
IAHGames to implement Patch 0.1 for Hellgate: London
Filed under: Patches, Server downtime, News items, Hellgate: London IAHGames have just announced that they will be going ahead with plans to patch Hellgate: London with Patch 0 and Patch 0.1 in just a few hours, starting at 9AM Thursday, Hong Kong time.
Monday, Nov 19
Patch 0.5 for Hellgate: London coming tomorrow
Filed under: Horror, Sci-fi, Patches, News items, Hellgate: London The Hellgate: London servers will be down tomorrow, November 20th, from 9am to 11am PST to implement Patch 0.5. Continue reading Patch 0.5 for Hellgate: London coming tomorrow
Saturday, Nov 17
Patch 0.5 coming next week for Hellgate: London
The people at Flagship Studios have announced that patch 0.5 for Hellgate: London is moving to the test servers and, if enough goes well, they will be releasing it sometime next week. They invite everyone with a U.S. account to help test the new patch this weekend. They've even copied all of our c...
Thursday, Nov 8
Hellgate: London subscription problems
Hellgate: London subscribers are reporting that they're being double billed for subscriptions to the online game, says Shacknews. Apparently not everyone has been double-billed, but some subscribers report that even after being charged the subscription doesn't show up in their acc...
Wednesday, Nov 7
Hellgate: London class overview
Filed under: At a glance, Horror, Sci-fi, Classes, New titles, Hellgate: LondonI am having a blast playing Hellgate: London, but it took me a while to sort through the different classes and choose one for playthrough. After dabbling with them all, I have settled on the Summoner as my curre...
Monday, Nov 5
Gamespot rips Fury with scathing review
Fury is just one of a trio of MMO titles released last week; Tabula Rasa and Hellgate: London being the other two. I've been in two minds over whether to give Fury a try, but this convinces me to steer clear for now. Tabula Rasa and Hellgate: London must be hoping for a kinder reviews than the one d...
Monday, Oct 22
Flagship's other MMO - Mythos nearing release
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
