It's time to uninstall the VPN client, as HanbitSoft and T3Fun have announced plans to bring Hellgate: London back to North America (in English!) later this year. There's even a press release (locking down a beta testing period that starts on June 3rd), a teaser website, a cinematic trailer, and two gameplay trailers to prove it.
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.
Sweet, cannot wait, loved the first game, it did lack variety but what a beautiful game. In dx10 maxed out it ran butter smooth 60 frames, and made games like fallout look like they were crafted by brain damaged monkeys!
Had a very very Diablo-esq feel, kool weapons, awesome loot, just suffered a bit from repitition, do yourself a favor and when this launches f2p, check it out!
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Can we PLEASE get a console version?!?