The Flagship office is never short on pleasant surprises. Case in point: One of our tester's friends came in today. Sure, nothing out of the ordinary there, right? But then her jacket came off...

You won't believe what's next...

Holy cow! You're all seeing that, aren't you? Yes, that's a real Hellgate: London tattoo! Besides just being incredibly awesome as is, think how hard it is to make a perfect circle that big using a tattoo gun. We.Are.Impressed.

But there's more, believe it or not. Word is that she's going to have not one, not two, but three Carnagors added to it. Wow. We can't wait to see it when it's done!

Also, just wanted to give a shout out to another fan and his great Hunter tattoo. We got this a good while ago, but never had the chance to give him an official "Hell's yeah!" for it.

Hell's yeah!

Lastly, the Korean Hellgate logo in temporary tattoo form.

Sometimes fake can be just as good.

If you happen to have a Hellgate tattoo and we don't know about it, send us a pic!

The fire alarm went off. The power went out. We all evacuated the building and waited in what felt like 100mph SF winds. What happened? Actually, we don't really know what caused the alarm to go off, nor on which floor the fire was on (or if there even was a fire). We can tell you that it wasn't at Flagship or Ping0, and that we're all safe and back at our desks. Sorry if you ran into any site bugs last night - we were in the middle of adding some features right when the power went out. A couple pics below for your entertainment.

Yes, as sad as it is, all things come to an end, even an insane day of playing Hellgate with our amazing community. Pulling off the event required some massive help – which we got from all the incredible people at Electronic Arts, NVIDIA, Intel, and Microsoft, as well as our overseas partners at HanbitSoft and IAH.

But enough talking. More looking! Check out some photos from the fabulous soiree right... here.

p.s. Just want to throw a personal thank you to Bobby, Phil, Tricia, Ivan, and Brennan for helping to make sure everything went smoothly, as well as everyone else at Flagship Studios for their participation. Oh, and the community. Without you guys, none of it would’ve happened.

Thanks, everyone!

Yep, it’s true: Brennan does anything we want him to. As he prepares the monstrosity known as the behind-the-scenes DVD, we dance around him taking photos of him. Sometimes we do it while he’s working, other times we take pics of just of his equipment – y’know, because we have no idea what any of it does.

Also included in this photo set are a couple shots of our glorious, hard-working testers, and an office space cozier than a koozie. Enjoy!

Click here for the photos!

Instead of waking up in sunny San Francisco, Bill and Tricia found themselves in glorious Geneva instead. Thankfully, there was a European community day, as well as meetings with our partners at EA Europe, to help kill the time until their return. Check out some new photos at our Flickr site!

The Geneva Photo Set

A warning: photos of cake, water taxis, and an office lobby await all those that click on through to the other side...