This evening the folks over at Gamers With Jobs Press Pass gave us a heads up about an alleged security breach at the offices of Flagship Studios, the company made up of ex-Blizzard employees slaving away at their ambitious Hellgate: London game.
The site's source alleges a Chinese individual conducted the virtual break-in and is currently attempting to sell the code on a personal website
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.
wheeeeeee *cry under table* hope it not a delay cause that is going to suck ass.