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Hellgate : Hellgate Re-Launch?
Posted Nov 05, 2008 by Keith Cross
Gamasutra is reporting that HanbitSoft, the company which operates Hellgate in Korea has acquired the rights to th game in other regions and may be planning to re-launch the game.
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 generally suffered from perceived quality issues and struggled to maintain a sufficient fanbase to continue operating, leading to Flagship's essential closing in July 2008.
Namco Bandai, who co-published the game through an agreement with EA Partners, recently announced that it would shut down its Hellgate servers on January 31, 2009. Flagship also shut down its servers for MMORPG Mythos earlier in the year, suspending the title's development while it was in its private beta testing stage.
Read more here.
Bummer FSS could not give the game the attention this game needed to succeed but hopefully now with Redbana taking over, Hellgaters will now have a much better playing experience. It will be interesting to see what they do to the game.
Too late, the horse left the barn a long time ago.
*Sigh*... Old news, people!
So old in fact that I can say it won't be re-launching here in America nor in Europe. I read that yesterday on Kotaku.
http://kotaku.com/5076430/as-you-were-hellgate-not-reopening-in-useu