Hellgate: London to close in February

By Oli Welsh Published 27 October, 2008

Namco to pull the plug on Flagship game.

Namco Bandai has announced that it will close all servers for Hellgate: London, the online RPG from doomed studio Flagship, on 31st January 2009.

In a "further gesture of support", Namco is providing the servers free of charge until the shutdown date.

Developer Flagship ran out of money and shut up shop back in July. Since then, the status of Hellgate has been unclear, while sister project Mythos was abandoned in the late beta stage.

Both may yet return; Asian publisher T3 has the rights and was last seen setting up a new studio to continue work on the games.

But it now seems that Namco Bandai will not be involved, and Hellgate faces, at best, a long hiatus from our screens.

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About Oli Welsh

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Comments (3) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • swede #1 3 years ago

    Shame, it wasn't that bad a game. Had a good few hours online with this one. Had terrible stability though. It would CTD or sometimes even 'hard lock' my PC frequently. (and there are many others with these problems). Thats what drove me away in the end.

  • itsfuzzy #2 3 years ago

    Nothing good to come out of this. Just sad for everyone involved and that worked so hard on the project. Feel for them all.

  • Gearskin #3 3 years ago

    This is a real bugger. I bought Hellgate on launch and it was a good game. The subscription model didn't help. Had they just opted for a monthly charge, they may have generated enough cash to keep going.