Encouraged presumably by the success of its collaboration on We Love Katamari (oh), Namco Bandai's come back to EA for help with publishing Flagship Studios' PC debut Hellgate: London in Europe and North America.
Meanwhile, Flagship has announced the game's third playable character class, the Hunter, with developer Bill Roper revealing that its introduction comes in response to requests for a class that emphasises player skill. "By removing auto-aiming and target-locking, the Hunter has been designed to provide a gameplay experience which will appeal directly to FPS players," he said.
Hellgate: London aims to combine the depth of role-playing games with the action of first-person shooters, and thanks to dynamically generated levels, items, enemies and events also aims to offer enormous scope for replay. The game's release date is currently unknown...
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.
