Someone by the name of matto, who had an employee avatar and the title “Janitor”, was making the people still on the sinking ship cry their little eyes out when he posted on the forums that he came back from vacation and his desk was gone. The “janitor” goes on to say that his key [...]

Thanks goes to our members on our forum and hellgataus.net for the news. Apparently in an effort to rework the game, HanbitSoft will be bringing down the US servers for a set period of time (does not specify when they are going down or for how long). Apparently HanbitSoft is already hard at work in [...]

Things have been slow as of late, very slow.  I was debating on if I wanted to even make an article out of this…but I have a good buzz going on right now so I figured what the hell.. We recieved yet another anonymous source giving us some details everyones favorite community manager.   Scapes According to [...]

Hey, everyone else is doing it. ;) Many thanks to Necx, Project_Xii, lonethar, and Travis Baldree himself for being part of the interview. — This was a chat-turned-interview that occured today between travis, Necx and some others. Kudos for Necx on asking such good questions. Hellgate and Mythos may be dead, but it’s always interesting to hear about the [...]

From an interview, published today, between Gamasutra and David DeMartini much was discussed about current and soon to arrive video game ventures affiliated with EA’s Partners Division (EAp is basically the megacorps most recent reformation of spin to seem less controlling of creativity and more friendly than monopolistic in the industry when working with studios). [...]

Some believe that it’s always darkest before the dawn, every cloud has a silver lining and “good” always wins out over “evil”. On the Internet such beliefs are held as near absolute truths by many an online socialite when it comes to understanding actions taken by the creators of services, software and media they have [...]

Sol Invictus, of Hellforge, Interviews Travis Baldree, former Mythos developer, about his and other ex-FSS Seattle Team members newly formed company, Runic Games. http://hellforge.gameriot.com/blogs/Hel … Interview/ Here’s a few of the choice questions, rest can be read by following the above link. Who among the team is joining you, are there any people from FSS? We’ve hired back all [...]

We received a second source detailing more ongoings with Flagship Studios. Juicy details included in this one… Including inter-office power struggles. Below is what we received via email. I would bold the things I find most interesting here…but they are all very interesting. Employees were not paid for their last two weeks work. [...]

Yes, this is the news I was talking about. We received some emails from a dark shadowy figure claiming to be a former FSS employee with intimate knowledge of the ongoings there. We were skeptical at first with this and there will be more news to come of it all (unless we scare [...]

Remember that big news Gapes said that was coming around? Here it is. A full review with CEO Bill Roper of Flagship Studios that answers every question imaginable, courtesy of 1UP. — Bill Roper speaks out at last Flagship founder breaks silence to talk about his company’s demise. The rumors and dirt have been flying ever since Flagship Studios [...]

A recent GameCyte article on an interview with Travis Baldree and Max Schaefer has hit the Internet. Definitely worth a read; tons of information to be found in this gem. I’ll bring out the highlights. GameCyte: So when did this process begin? Travis Baldree: We started getting ourselves reformed pretty shortly after the closure of Flagship… … GameCyte: [...]

I know there hasn’t been much news as of late…but there is some BIG news in the works. I don’t want to say too much…but when I got the “tip” today I was pretty excited. Keep checking back here over the next few days….and get your popcorn ready. Share This

First, the smaller update. The Hellgate: London forums are now featuring Google ads within posts. Tiggs has provided some insight as to why: Heya Folks, My guess is it is a test to see how things go. I put a call in to find out more information. Ah, I see. Because Google ads on a vBulletin board [...]

So after a month of no word on what’s going on, we sort of have something to work with now. Enter Runic Games Inc, the “former Flagship Studios Seattle team.” Seattle, Washington - August 8th, 2008 - The former Flagship Studios Seattle [...]

Nearing three weeks of no concrete information of what’s really going on with Flagship Studios and Hellgate, we are currently on a new flux of assumptions and suspicions. First, the Ping0 staff all trade their Ping0 icons and Ping0 affiliation for Namco Bandai, which led to further speculation that Namco was taking over. Still not [...]

I know a lot of things have been blown out of proportion in the past two weeks, but I think the current “Namco is going to/has acquired the IP rights to Hellgate” really takes the cake. Even IGN has jumped on the bandwagon, going as far to say that the Namco Bandai representative, Zack Karlsson, [...]

A month ago, Flagship Studios issued an announcement that the recently made available for purchase (zoned for Japan) version of Hellgate: London was the number one selling PC Game in Japan. This according to Amazon.co.jp’s weekly continent sale reporting. This achievement was met with great cries of fanboy joy. One month later, the achievement of being [...]

By the way, did I quote that correctly, Ivan? Send me your complaints via E-Mail if I didn’t. Anyways, Tiggs has posted another bit of information regarding the current upheaval everyone is in about the state of the game. Here’s a link to her post in the lolcat spam thread. “Since word spreads fast around here and [...]

Add this to the list of poor money and time management HGL received. It turns about according to a post by FSS10 they were actually were starting to develop HGL for the Xbox 360. I‘m not joking this time. There was a semi-working version running on a Xbox 360. Run, jump, shoot, monsters, etc. Sure it [...]

Mythos servers (and forums) are now officially down. Again, you guys know as much as we do about the final word on everything. Keep us posted if anyone changes their mind at the last minute. “Travelers of Uld, We, the ancient elders of Uld are issuing this warning to all citizens and travelers. Hurry! The great darkness [...]