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EA To Publish Hellgate London

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the long-time-coming dept.

The long-awaited release of Hellgate London, from Flagship Studios, will be handled by Electronic Arts. The Escapist newsroom reports that EA will do sales, marketing, and distribution of the game, while Namco Bandai will handle toys, novels, comics, etc. From the article: "Future games in the series were not listed as part of the deal, despite Namco's tradition of partnering with EA for publishing software in Europe. In Asia, Flagship Studios inked deals with South Korean publisher and developer HanbitSoft to handle distribution and San Jose developer Online Game Services Inc. to assist in maintaining the online world." Future games? How about they release the first one before we start talking about sequels.

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  1. Meaning by steveo777 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It will be released far too early. It will be very buggy, it won't really resemble what the creator intended, and it will have far too many sequels.

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    1. Re:Meaning by Endo13 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      EA did destroy "those studios". In the last 10 years or so, pretty much everything EA has released has been bug-ridden garbage. Studios that previously (before they published under EA) had excellent games followed up with trash under EA. And the games that EA themselves have developed recently are the worst of the lot. It's bad enough now that I won't even try their new games that would interest me if published by anyone else.

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  2. You did expect this... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Future games? How about they release the first one before we start talking about sequels.

    I heard "Hellgate London: Global Warming" is supposed to be a good sequel.

  3. yep by thejrwr · · Score: 4, Insightful

    this is kinda the same with God Of War, they where talking about GoW2 before the first was released, guess they think the game will do SOO well that they can make even more money off the game

  4. Queue Vader. by flitty · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nooooo!... (and such, you know the joke)

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