Filed under: Betas, Fantasy, Bugs, New titles, Patches, Crafting, Mythos, Free-to-play, CasualFlagship's forthcoming free-to-play MMO Mythos, patched their closed beta with lots of bug fixes and new features. The camera has been completely re-done; it now has four-options -- Isometric Style (the original, far-overhead view); Isometric Orbiting Style, where the camera turns with you; MMO Style, which is the over-the-shoulder view common to many MMOs, and MMO Outdoor Only, which reverts to isomet
Valued Mythos testers, Has it been a while since you’ve played the ongoing Mythos closed beta test? Are you ready to experience a whole new type of online action RPG? If you answered yes to either question, you’ll be happy to know we’ve completely rebuilt our free MMORPG from the ground up to be more expansive, cohesive, and seamless. We’re calling this revamp the Mythos Overworld. As one of our valued testers, you can play in Mythos’ Overworld it right now. Previously, Mythos’ dungeons and
SneakShots #3: Darkform 21.06.2008, 15:47 (Translate in english) hg.gamona.de Die Flagship Studios beglücken uns auf der offiziellen Seite mit dem mittlerweile dritten SneakShot, welcher dieses Mal ganz im Zeichen des Abyss Chronicles steht. Zu Gesicht bekommen wir ein Wallpaper eines Summoner in der "Darkform", sowi... (read more)
Sneakshots #3 21.06.2008, 12:32 (Translate in english) inHellgate Zum mittlerweile dritten Mal geben die Flagship Studios in ihrer Serie Sneakshots Einblicke in das Spiel. Zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt dreht sich natürlich alles um die Abyss Chronicles und so gibt es ein hochauflösendes Wallpaper (2560 x 1920 (read more)
This just in off the front page of the offiial Hellgate London website: This third installment of SneakShots comes from our art department in the form of a high-resolution wallpaper of the new Abyss Chronicles splash image. The wallpaper features a Cabalist in Darkform, a new Summoner skill in Patch 2. Additionally, the transformed Summoner is sporting new armor and focus items found only in the Abyss laid out behind him. Darkform is one of eighteen new unique skills, three per class, learn
David Brevik (CVO and co-founder) Bill Roper (CEO and co-founder) Erich Schaefer (CCO and co-founder) Max Schaefer (COO and co-founder) Kenneth Williams (CFO and co-founder)
Industry
Computer and video game industry
Products
Hellgate: London Mythos (computer game)
Website
FlagshipStudios.com
Flagship Studios is a computer game company founded by Bill Roper along with Max Schaefer, Erich Schaefer, and David Brevik, the original developers of Diablo and former high level Blizzard North executives. The core of Flagship Studios has been collaborating as a team since 1993 when they founded Condor Studios (later bought out and renamed Blizzard North) and in addition to the Diablo franchise were key high level executives in the development of Warcraft, Starcraft, and World of Warcraft. Flagship Studios was formed following the en mass resignation of Blizzard North management following a dispute with Blizzard Entertainment parent company Vivendi. Flagship Studio's primary target platform for their games is the PC.
Flagship Studios has a partnership with Namco and HanbitSoft to cover an international market for game marketing and distribution.
Titles
Hellgate: London
In March 2005, following months of teasing concept art for an unknown game, Flagship Studios' first title named Hellgate: London was announced via an exclusive article in the computer magazine PC Gamer. It was formally released October 31, 2007 as an action role-playing game (RPG) in the same vein as the Diablo games, but with the twist of being played in 3D, primarily from a first-person perspective. The game takes place in a post-apocalyptic demon-infested London, following a great battle between demons and humans. The developer is careful to point out that the game experience will be nothing like that of regular first-person shooters, but with much deeper RPG content in the form of e.g. random quests, and where a character's combat efficiency is more determined by statistics than player reflexes. In addition, the game features random levels; sometimes a point of criticism, nigh unheard of in games of similar perspective and scale. Expectations from the game were high, as earlier games the developers have been involved in, especially titles from Blizzard Entertainment, have become best sellers with few exceptions. However it has received mixed reviews, and complaints by many gamers that the game was released in an unfinished state. The Flagship team are currently developing patches and fixes to remove the bugs and crashes in game play as of November 25, 2007.
Mythos
Mythos is currently under development by Flagship Studios, specifically the recently-formed Flagship Seattle. An online RPG, again very similar in style to the Diablo, the game will be used to test the networking technology behind the multiplayer component of Hellgate: London. The game will not be sold in stores but rather digitally distributed by Flagship Studios subsidiary Ping0 in North America and Europe some time in 2008. It is expected to be free to play and download, though it will likely include some source of revenue-generation for Flagship as well.
Major staff
David Brevik (CVO, Co-Founder)
Bill Roper (CEO, Co-Founder)
Erich Schaefer (CCO, Chairman of the Board, Co-Founder)
Max Schaefer (COO, Co-Founder)
Ken Williams (CFO, Co-Founder)
Dave Glenn (Art Director, Co-Founder)
Peter Hu (Director of Technology, Co-Founder)
Phil Shenk (Art Director, Co-Founder)
Tyler Thompson (Director of Technology, Co-Founder)
