IncGamers.com reports that Hanbitsoft is patching Hellgate: London for their users, igniting life into the 3D first/third person shooter action RPG. Unfortunately, this patch does not include all regions where the game is sold.
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.
Gasp, and everyone thought it was dead.
Well, the game wasn't really bad, it was just released too early, and as Bill roper said in that interview, they just tried too many things at once. Skipping the subscriber part of the game might have saved it from the start!
Bring it back to the west!
i played the beta and it was cool i thought. i never experienced many bugs but it did seem very unpolished and not worth charging per month for which is what killed them.