Namco closing Hellgate on Jan. 31

<p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/pc/" rel="tag">PC</a>, <a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/online/" rel="tag">Online</a>, <a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/rpgs/" rel="tag">RPGs</a></p><div align="center"><a href="http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/55546"><img width="490" vspace="4" hspace="0" height="224" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/07/hellgatelondon.jpg" alt="" /></a><br />
<div align="left">Namco Bandai has issued a statement saying that, come Jan. 31, the servers for Flagship Studios' stillborn online RPG, <em><a href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/hellgate-london">Hellgate: London</a>, </em>will, <a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/08/15/just-to-be-clear-flagship-studios-is-dead/">like its developer</a>, disappear forever. In effect, Namco will be closing the <strike>gate</strike> door on one of the more disappointing launches in role-playing history.<br /><br />In what the company calls a "gesture of support," those wishing to continue playing the game online until the lights come on and the bouncers shoo them out on Feb. 1 will be able to do so on the house.<br /></div>
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