Hellgate: London Is Not Dead….Yet

Flagship may have lost the IP, but their overhyped MMO is still very much alive. Namco Bandai games have made an “official” annoucement by the means of a forum post:

Hello Hellgaters,

I know everyone is looking for an announcement, and we’d love to make one — but right now, many things are in flux and we don’t have all the information yet. As soon as we do, we’ll post here on the forums, on the website, and anywhere else we can find you.

In the short term, please do not worry. The game is up, the servers are not going away in the short term and any major changes to status will be communicated in advance.

I’d like to ask for your patience as we try to figure it all out and chart a new course. We value your community, your commitment, and your passion for Hellgate and we will make sure that any solution that we architect will support all of you as best as we are able.

Thanks again. We hope to have a real announcement shortly.

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Zack “Ozuri” Karlsson
Sr. Director, Business Development
NAMCO BANDAI Games America, Inc.

Hellgate: London - the game itself, continues to live along. For how long, that’s anybody’s guess. But with salty responses like these, it looks as if Hellgate: London already has one foot in the grave.

Frontlines: Fuel of War to get PunkBuster

According to a forum post in the Frontlines: Fuel of War forums, the game will get Evenbalance’s annoying anti-cheating software. It should be noted that upon release, the game didn’t come with ANY sort of anti-cheating software.

THQ and Kaos Studios have contracted with Even Balance, Inc. to integrate their PunkBuster anti-cheat software into Frontlines: Fuel of War. This will be added in an upcoming patch and more details will be released soon.

Epic Games Headed to Steam?

According to the official Steam forums, Epic games may be headed to steam to distribute their titles via Valve’s content delivery service. A curious user was fiddling with clientregistry.blob and found what appears to be a key related to Epic Games. Quote from the forum post:

in my opinion “EPG” is a shortcut for “Epic Games” and all the games included in the subscription has “system” current working directory ( which can be sings of UT engine )

Read full post@Steam forums