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Namco Bandai Holding Up The Return Of Hellgate

6:00PM Luke Plunkett | MMO Hellgate died. Then it was bought out, and is back (in Asia). In the West, however, it remains dead, despite the best efforts of new franchise owners HanbitSoft. More »

Atlus Online Does Steampunk With Neo Steam

1:40AM Mike Fahey | Atlus Online has revealed the first game to be offered on the new online community, JoyImpact’s massively multiplayer online steampunk game Neo Steam: The Shattered Continent. More »

HanbitSoft To Continue Hellgate: London – No Really

2:40AM Mike Fahey | Despite news to the contrary back in November, Korean publisher and developer HanbitSoft still plans to maintain Hellgate: London as a free-to-play title on a global scale after Namco Bandai’s January 31st server shutdown. More »

Hellgate To Relaunch? Flying Pigs Not Pictured

9:20AM Stuart Houghton | It seems you just can’t keep a good game down. The same may also apply to Hellgate: London – previously announced as shutting up shop for good at the end of January. More »

Hellgate, Mythos Development Picked Up By Korean Publisher

6:30PM Luke Plunkett | So Flagship (and Hellgate) are sunk, and Mythos has been canned along with them, right? Not necessarily! According to some job postings over on Gamasutra and DICE.com, Korean publisher T3 is opening a development studio in San Francisco, and will continue work on both titles. Seems random, but T3 own a controlling stake in HanbitSoft, Hellgate’s Korean publisher, and the company at the centre of a tussle over ownership of the game as Flagship was going down. A tussle they seem to be well on the way to winning. The news probably won’t matter to Hellgate players since, outside of Korea, there really aren’t any left, but it’s good news for Mythos fans. Report: T3 To Continue Hellgate, Mythos Development In SF Office [Gamasutra] More »

Flagship Sunk, Who’s In Charge of Hellgate?

1:00AM Owen Good | Word started passing yesterday that Flagship Studios went caput, and now multiple sites are reporting word that the Hellgate developer is indeed no more. We got an anonymous tipster who said Flagship shut down abruptly yesterday, and that developers for both Hellgate (San Francisco) and Mythos (Seattle) have all been pink-slipped. “But there’s also hope that they will all have their jobs back at the end of next week at a brand new company”, our tipster says. But wait, there’s more. Flagship’s Korean partners/owners, Hanbitsoft, were said to be taking over. That sparked a foofaraw regarding who owns the Hellgate intellectual property. More »