We received the Hellgate: London Asia Launch Show press release which Presented By Bill Roper, The CEO of Flagship Studio. This press release metioned the future of Hellgate: London and the closed beta date of the game.

Current Development Status

We are currently working towards our first external Alpha testing of Hellgate: London and will either have just sent out our "friends and family" invitations or will be in a few days. The game content has been locked down and were in the finishing, polishing, balancing and bug fixing stages. Hellgate: London has come a long way sine the last time we came to Korea, and were very excited to give you the chance to play the latest available code. In many ways you are our very first Alpha testers, so I will personally be interested in your comments and feedback on your experience here today.

The Future of Hellgate: London

We have many plans for supporting and growing Hellgate: London. The ability to continually add content is one of the things that has us very excited and positive about the long term health of the game. Just as our game is unlike any MMO in existence, we also have some very unique plans in terms of the type of content we add.

We will be adding both monthly special events, as well as larger content-based patches that we are hoping to release ever 3-4 months. Some of the areas we intend to focus on are:

Added Functionality/Features for the first four Ongoing Patches will include the following:

¡¤ Special server-types and game modes, like "Hardcore," "PVP" and "Role-play"
¡¤ Expanded Guild support, like guild housing and shared guild stash.
¡¤ Auction House access and expanded social support, like in-game email and out of game web-based character access.
¡¤ Class based "epic" quests for "ultimate" equipment.
¡¤ Expanded group management, like auto-group matchmaking.
¡¤ Armor Mod system
¡¤ Trinket system
¡¤ Useable Stationary Turrets
¡¤ New Monsters
¡¤ New Weapons
¡¤ New Armor Sets
¡¤ New individual pieces of Armor
¡¤ New Tile Sets
¡¤ New Locations
¡¤ New Skills
¡¤ New Affixes
¡¤ New Character Classes

Closed Beta Announcement

We have been working closely with both Ping0 and HanbitSoft to schedule testing in Korea. I am happy to announce that we will be entering a limited Korean closed beta of Hellgate: London this July. When we have an exact date and how invitations will sent, we will be sure to let you know.