Former Blizzard Entertainment director and Flagship Studios founder Bill Roper has joined Cryptic Studios, the developer announced today.
He will serve as design director on Champions Online, the studio’s new MMO superhero title based on the Champions role-playing game.
Roper had previously founded the ill-fated Flagship Studios, which produced only one notable game – Hellgate: London [...]

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It’s the end of the line for Hellgate: London, the only major output of the now-defunct Flagship Studios, as publisher Namco Bandai has announced that it will support the game’s servers through January 31, 2009, after which they will be shut down.
Online multiplayer for the action-RPG will continue to be [...]

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Hellgate developer Flagship Studios has been going through a lot of trouble lately, but company CEO Bill Roper had stated that they won’t be shutting down despite having laid off most of its staff. However, ex-COO Max Schaefer has revealed that it is only open to take care of “final affairs.”
“It’s barely open,” he [...]

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Following the demise of Flagship Studios, those responsible for the studio’s Mythos, a free-to-play MMORPG, have formed a new development company called Runic Games.
According to their press release, the team “intends to continue to use their expertise in the action-RPG MMO genre to create the best games in the market.” While no games were [...]

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