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Captaining The Lifeboat: Runic Games’ Max Schaefer and Travis Baldree

After Flagship Studios became embroiled in a legal controversy regarding the fate of its intellectual properties, it seemed nothing -- not Hellgate, not promising action-RPG Mythos, and not an explanation of any kind -- would escape. But today, the heads of the newly-established Runic Studios give GameCyte a glimpse of Flagship Studio's wreckage, and explain how their group of survivors is planning for the future.

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Mythos Creators Salvage Flagship Seattle, Rebrand it Runic Games

Tradition dictates that the captain go down with his ship, and so we find it unsurprising that the good Captain Black might swear his last clinging desperately to the tiller -- but that doesn't mean his shipmates have to undergo the same fate. Server engineers have been snapped up by former Hellgate distributor Electronic Arts. [...]

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