THE LONG wait will soon be over! Singapore-based Infocomm Asia Holdings Pte Ltd, the exclusive regional distributor of the highly anticipated online game Hellgate: London, has confirmed that the game will be launched in Southeast Asia on October 31 — the same day that it will be released in North America.
Hellgate: London of course is the first title from Flagship Studios, the company founded by gaming legend and former Blizzard stalwart Bill Roper. I was lucky to meet Bill last year in Singapore during IAH’s “One Market, One Asia” launch and interviewed him for hackenslash and INQUIRER.net.
Here’s an excerpt from the press statement sent by IAH.
Gamers in South East Asia will be able to lay their hands on it to try it out first hand together with the gamers in North America. Said Roland Ong, CEO of IAHGames: “We are very proud that our One Market, One Asia strategy has resulted in a One Launch with Flagship Studios.”
Hellgate: London represents the next leap in the evolution of the action RPG genre, combining the depth and captivating gameplay of traditional RPGs with the visceral action of first-person shooters. The game is developed by the principal creators of the Diablo series.
“Announcing our official release date is a very exciting step for us,” said Bill Roper, CEO of Flagship Studios. “We’re anxious to bring Hellgate: London to Southeast Asia with IAHGames and to get to know the passionate gamers there as well as we do in other parts of the world.”
One of the most anticipated PC games and RPGs of the year, Hellgate: London offers infinite re-playability with dynamically generated levels, items, enemies and events. The player creates a heroic character, completes quests, and battles through an innumerable amount of demons to advance through a deep, rich story-driven campaign. A robust, flexible skill and spell system, highly customizable appearances, and a massive variety of randomly generated equipment allow each player to create his or her own unique hero.
October 17th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
We can never play this game because it costs more than one thousand pesos..lolz
September 30th, 2007 at 12:18 am
[...] there is no official Press release link, this was posted on both MMOSITE as well as Hackenslash which both reference the Press [...]
August 31st, 2007 at 9:29 am
its a pretty cool game. a bit dark it used to be very high spec. I wonder if they lowered the requirements.
August 27th, 2007 at 9:57 am
I wonder who’s gonna be the local distributor here in the Philippines for Hellgate:London
August 26th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
So hu will be the local partner for hellgate london?