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Flagship Breaks Radio Silence — 1UP Interviews CEO Bill Roper

On Thursday, amidst an in-depth interview with former COO Max Schaefer and Mythos lead designer Travis Baldree, GameCyte learned that Flagship Studios was truly shutting its doors for good. To use a tired analogy, the news spread like wildfire — but one consumer gaming publication failed to report this turn of events. Why? Because when [...]

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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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T3 to Resume Hellgate, Mythos Development in New SF Studio?

While we still don’t have the definitive word on where Flagship Studios’ intellectual property has actually gone, a pair of job postings have surfaced that point to a HanbitSoft victory. T3 Entertainment, the majority stakeholder in publisher HanbitSoft, is “searching for creative minds to passionately continue development of Hellgate: London and Mythos,” and is going [...]

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Hellgate: London Update — Namco Bandai Hires Ping0 Support Team?

One week after Namco Bandai shone its brilliant orange light on the remains of Hellgate: London – via a decidedly cryptic message — that light has pervaded the game’s forums once more. Only this time, it comes in the form of a badge, worn proudly by three former Ping0 staffers. Sporting a new avatar, yellow-hyperlinked screen [...]

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Namco Bandai To Rescue Sinking Flagship?

Though our last report from the company indicated that they were still afloat, there’s no question that what’s left of Flagship Studios is dangling precariously close to the water. As prognosticated in early June, most staff have been let go, further subscriptions for completed title Hellgate: London have been blocked, and work-in-progress Mythos has gone [...]

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Just the Links, Ma’am: 6.11.08

Your daily smörgåsbord of the very best gaming has to offer. Enthusiast: Spore system requirements revealed, as lenient as we could hope for (Spore.com) EVE Online’s free expansion Emperian Age launches (EVE-Online.com) Wii FPS The Conduit dated Q1 2009; will include “competitive online multiplayer component” (High Voltage Software via WorthPlaying) Spyro: A New Beginning, Guilty Gear XX# Reload join Xbox [...]

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