Hellgate: London

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In a new interview over at Gamasutra, former Flagship Studios CEO Bill Roper talks about Hellgate: London and the demise of the game studio. Roper indicates in the interview that the team tried to do too much too fast and that things spiraled out of control very quickly.

Following the shut down of game servers for Hellgate: London in January of '09, HanbitSoft has now acquired the rights to publish the game from Namco Bandai and intends to return Hellgate: London to service in the US & Europe later this year.

Despite the game's stated end date of January 31st, HanbitSoft, the developer and publisher of Hellgate: London says that the game will continue to run as a free to play title.

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.

After Flagship Studios announced that Hellgate London would be shutting down, Namco Bandai has announced that they will support the game up until January 31st, 2009.

IGN has reported that Flagship Studios, the company behind Hellgate: London, has closed its doors, leaving the future of the game (and others in development by the studio) in question.

Flagship Studios today released a video to coincide with the recent launch of patch 1.3 for its action RPG Hellgate: London.

MMORPG.com Staff Writer Joe Iuliani gives his us his impressions of Hellgate: London.

MMORPG.com Staff Writer Joe Iuliani gives his us his impressions of Hellgate: London.

Hellgate: London has launched in Korean and Flagship Studios is calling it the most successful Korean Launch in 3 years.

The folks at Hellgate London have published the patch notes for the recent 1.2 patch.

The folks at Hellgate: London have released their plans for the next three game updates at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The updates include two smaller patches and a major content update called "The Abyss Chronicles".

Flagship Studios has published the patch notes for patch 0.6 for Hellgate London, which fixed a number of bugs.

The folks over at Hellgate London have released the patch notes for Patch 0.5, which will add a number of new features as well as fixing bugs.