With a new update for Hellgate: London already on its way, Flagship Studios has something new to celebrate as it found over 1 million registered accounts in Korea who joined the open  beta bandwagon for the game. To find out more about the MMO title's monumental launch in the country, read our full article after the jump.

Anything that serves to enhance a player's gaming experience is always a welcome thing. Soon, Hellgate: London players will be treated to a double whammy of updates. Flagship Studios will have Patch 1.2 for the single player game, with Patch 1.3 available in the near future.

Interested in knowing what these are all about? Why not turn to the full article after the jump and find out!

Bill Roper knows what it's like to have regrets, and he's willing to talk about them. In a recent interview, he talked about what the company has been doing to correct the mistakes it has made with Hellgate: London. Alas, we must regretfully end the teaser here. If you'd like more information, kindly turn to the full article after the jump.

Enjoying Flagship Studios' Hellgate: London? Then you might want to read up on this update of the title developed by members of the Diablo staff, as it offers quite the refreshing insight on the game and what it is now. Check out the full article by clicking on the read more button below.

Managing a high-end MMORPG is no picnic, and it's in this State of the Game update from the guys behind the scenes in Flagship Studios' Hellgate: London that we get an inkling of how. From the inevitable onrush of players commenting about a sudden server downtime (which the staff had warned about a few moments in-game) to dealing with a web server crash, it's all in a day's work for Bill Roper and his crew.

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The Xfire chat for MMORPG Hellgate: London took place yesterday as expected and the fine folks from Flagship Studios has been very accommodating. The game has been officially launched and despite some early problems, the overall feedback from the community has been positive.

A lot of questions were raised but some that caught our attention include the problems of players with Hellgate: London's seemingly limited environment. Flagship Studios CEO Bill Roper took the question and reminded everyone about the patch:

Believe it or not, there are more diverse areas in Hellgate: London than there were in Diablo II. Think about the second Act in D2. Sand. Lots of Sand. And a star chamber. And then some underground sand. We do a lot more to diversify our acts, and the patch that is available on day one (well, today) goes a long way to theming acts better so that you can get a better feel for that diversity.

When asked about the MMORPG'ss plans on guild systems, Flagship's Senior Community Manager Kaiser Hwang explained that the guild system has already been introduced with Patch 0. The official added that while they have a lot of unique ideas of their own regarding the feature, they would want to hear what the community wants.

Aside from already mentioned, the chat covered a lot of all other things including game design, marketing efforts, future plans, and whatnot. To read the whole transcript of the chat session, click the Read link below.

Bill Roper, CEO of Flagship Studios, has announced that Flagship Studios' Hellgate: London is now officially live. With Hellgate: London servers up, and regular and Collector's Edition boxes arriving in store shelves and mailboxes around the world, Mr. Roper also took the time to thank those who made the development and distribution of Flagship Studios' MMORPG possible.

In his official statement, Roper acknowledged the fact that the support of fans, publishing partners, and the respective families and significant others of the members of the Flagship Studios team was what helped Hellgate: London make it this far. Mr. Roper appreciated the fact that these people stuck it out with them and helped them turn their Hellgate: London into something bigger than what they had originally planned the game to be.

With all the nifty stuff that the developers have planned for the future of Hellgate: London, it's nice to know that Flagship Studios hasn't forgotten about the folks who have kept them (and will continue to keep them) afloat as they strive to carve their own niche the highly-competitive MMORPG market.

Bill Roper, CEO of Flagship Studios, recently talked about the future of Flagship Studios' apocalyptic MMORPG, Hellgate: London. Aside from keeping the game interesting, Mr. Roper mentioned that the changes were simply Flagship Studios' way of responding to the feedback and the criticism they've received from Hellgate: London players.

Mr. Roper mentioned a variety of new content that players would be encountering in the near future: a new hub (Stonehenge), potentially new character classes, All Hallows' Eve and Guy Fawkes Night-themed content and possible plans for retail expansion.

While all these tweaks are important in themselves, Roper admitted that the bigger priority is keeping both subscribing and non-subscribing players happy. Flagship Studios hopes to achieve this delicate balance by making the broader game-wide features available to both parties (e.g. free-for-all PvP, auction houses, in-game mail, etc.) while giving subscribers a greater level of control over these. For instance, all Hellgate: London players may join guilds, but only subscribers may establish guilds of their own.

While any Hellgate: London beta player will tell you that the game is far from perfect, it's partly because the game is still a work in progress. The important thing is that, for the most part, Flagship Studios appears to be willing to learn from their mistakes and to correct them.

If Tabula Rasa has their special "Kill General British" event this week, those waiting for Hellgate: London also have something to look forward to. With the launch of Flagship Studios' MMORPG for the PC, the devs are inviting all of you Xfire users to an exclusive chat this Wednesday - right when the game finally hits shelves this week.

Via Xfire network, you can bombard the devs with anything and everything about Hellgate: London. We suggest that, right at this point, you guys might already want to start asking them all about making the game into a franchise. Hey, Flagship CEO Bill Roper will be in the chatrooms, and he did mention that they wanted sequels, books, and comics, all revolving around their latest title. Here's the rest of the devs that you get to interact with on Halloween:

• Aletheia Simonson, Art Producer
• Bill Manegold, Game Programmer
• Amir Ebrahimi, Graphics Programmer
• Guy Somberg, Audio and Gameplay Programmer
• The Xfire Community

This online event is also to promote the in-game Xfire Voice Chat feature. As some of you might recall, Xfire is lending its service to support in-game chatting in Hellgate: London.

The Xfire chat is to be held on Wednesday, October 31, 10:00 p.m. GMT / 11:00 p.m. CET. Just log on to your Xfire account and you can join in the chat.

It seems Flagship Studios has a lot of things planned for its upcoming online title, Hellgate: London. According to Flagship CEO Bill Roper, there are definitely more stories to tell about the Hellgate universe.

Speaking to video game news website CVG, Roper revealed that what happens in the game is one facet of the larger story, but the team would also "love to be able to then explore what's happening in other places during this time".

Roper also revealed that the Hellgate: London team not only wants to tell these stories through games but through other media as well.

"Hopefully we'll get that opportunity through games, through other properties - like books and comics - and be able to look at those things, and look at other parts of the world and explore what happened", Roper said. "If the game's popular, if people like it, then I guess there's a chance we can do more."