EA has announced that Flagship Studios' Hellgate: London has now gone gold and is set for release on November 2nd on schedule. A single player demo will also be released on Thursday 18th.
Before Flagship Studios, there was Blizzard North. Originally known as Condor, the Redwood-based studio was acquired in 1997 by Blizzard Entertainment. At the time, Blizzard North was hard at work on the development of the game that would be the cornerstone of everything that came after: Diablo.
IGN : Remember Hellgate: London? The dark fantasy action role-playing game came out in 2007 for PC, a year before developer Flagship Studios went bankrupt. Since then, various free-to-play and online revivals have come and gone. Now, 17 years after the release of Hellgate: London, it’s back.
I remember some friends and I all bought Hellgate: London day one because it was made by some original Diablo devs. We had fun playing it, good memories.
PC Invasion: Hellgate: London is back on Steam, but it's not what you expect it to be. It's a single-player game in the vein of Asian MMOs.
I want this game for the PS3!!
There has been tonnes of whining on the "buggieness" of the beta, but it seems those people must have been a very vocal minority! Really glad the majority of people seems to think this game is worth buying!
Now, as I AM going to buy it, lets hope they don't fill it with useless DRM crap!