The South East Asian problems with Hellgate: London is hopefully at an end in a week from now, as both CEOs of Flagship Studios and IAHGames have made a joint statement that there will be no character wipe and that Flagship Studios has a solution to implement patch 0 without affecting the database. IAHGames announced that both Patch 0 and Patch 0.1 will be implemented and that the patches should be up on 22nd November 2007. Only time will tell if flagship and IAHGames can ever repair the loss in faith from the South East Asian market.
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.
