San Francisco, CA (July 14, 2008) -- Flagship Studios has announced today that despite rumors to the contrary, the company is still operating.
“It is with deep regret that I must announce that Flagship Studios has laid off most employees. However, the core management and founding team members are still at Flagship.” said Bill Roper, CEO of Flagship Studios. “The past five years have been an incredible experience for us, but unfortunately, we couldn’t sustain the size of the company any longer.”
Flagship Studios owns the rights to all its technology and IP, including Hellgate: London and Mythos. Due to the current situation, Flagship will not be taking any new subscribers for Hellgate: London, and all current subscriptions will not be billed.
Flagship wishes to extend their heartfelt thanks to those that have supported the company and games over the past five years.
About Flagship Studios
Flagship Studios is a creator of innovative entertainment software, designing games that focused on ease of play, replayability, and fun. The studio was formed in 2003 by former executives and developers from Blizzard North® and represents the creators of the worldwide, best-selling Diablo® franchise. With members that are renowned within the gaming industry, Flagship Studios and its Flagship Seattle division embodies a team that has worked together for over a decade and have numerous #1-selling games and multiple Game of the Year awards to their credit.
Posted by: Scapes on Thu, 07/17/2008 - 22:22 Talk About This Story!
“It is with deep regret that I must announce that Flagship Studios has laid off most employees. However, the core management and founding team members are still at Flagship.” said Bill Roper, CEO of Flagship Studios. “The past five years have been an incredible experience for us, but unfortunately, we couldn’t sustain the size of the company any longer.”
Flagship Studios owns the rights to all its technology and IP, including Hellgate: London and Mythos. Due to the current situation, Flagship will not be taking any new subscribers for Hellgate: London, and all current subscriptions will not be billed.
Flagship wishes to extend their heartfelt thanks to those that have supported the company and games over the past five years.
About Flagship Studios
Flagship Studios is a creator of innovative entertainment software, designing games that focused on ease of play, replayability, and fun. The studio was formed in 2003 by former executives and developers from Blizzard North® and represents the creators of the worldwide, best-selling Diablo® franchise. With members that are renowned within the gaming industry, Flagship Studios and its Flagship Seattle division embodies a team that has worked together for over a decade and have numerous #1-selling games and multiple Game of the Year awards to their credit.
Filed under:
Hellgate: London Patch 1.3d will be live on the Shulgoth (US) and Sydonai (EU) servers tomorrow, July 9th. The Shulgoth (US) server will update at 10:00 AM PDT and the Sydonai (EU) server will update at 8:00 PM PDT (0300 July 10th GMT). The downtime for each server will be about one hour.
Both servers will resume normal service after the update. Patch notes for Patch 1.3d are available here.
Posted on Tue, 07/08/2008 - 19:39 Talk About This Story!
Both servers will resume normal service after the update. Patch notes for Patch 1.3d are available here.
The Shulgoth (US) and Sydonai (EU) servers will be undergoing maintenance tonight and tomorrow night. The Shulgoth server will go down July 2nd at 12:00 AM PT. The Sydonai server will go down later that evening at 8:00 PM PT (0300 on July 3rd GMT). The estimated downtime for each is one hour.
Account management via our web services will be unavailable during these downtimes.
Posted on Tue, 07/01/2008 - 20:49 Talk About This Story!
Account management via our web services will be unavailable during these downtimes.
Hellgate: London, which hit shelves this week on June 26th in Japan, has topped the country's PC game sales list according to online retail website Amazon. Gamasutra reported on this news in their weekly "Sailing The World" column which sourced the data from Amazon.co.jp's real-time charts of the continent's sales. Pre-order boxes are not included in this metric.
The full article can be found here.
Posted by: Scapes on Sat, 06/28/2008 - 01:19 Talk About This Story!
The full article can be found here.
Filed under:
