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It looks like Hellgate London will be hitting store shelves this coming Halloween!

Get ready to hack, slash, and shoot your way through a demon-infested London this Halloween! Electronic Arts Inc. and NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. today announced that Hellgate: London, the premier title from Flagship Studios, will start hitting retail stores in North America on October 31, 2007 and in Europe on November 2, 2007 for the PC. Hellgate: London represents the next leap in the evolution of the action RPG genre, combining the depth and addictive gameplay of traditional RPGs with the visceral action of first-person shooters.

"We wanted to hit the sweet-spot for release in terms of the development schedule and delivering the highest-quality game to our players," said Bill Roper, CEO of Flagship Studios. "Halloween was the perfect fit as it ensures that Hellgate: London will have an appropriate amount of beta testing, while also being an incredibly fun time to unleash the game."

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.

While some may prefer to slay demons solo, players will also be able to take the fight online, teaming up with friends to save London in a secure, client-server environment and playing through the entire story-driven campaign for free. For those players who want to extend their Hellgate: London experience, Flagship is offering an optional subscription service which will give players access to huge amounts of content on an ongoing basis in the form of quests, character classes, demons, items, etc. More details about Hellgate: London's online options are coming soon.

The Hellgate London Asia website has been revamped and with its launch comes a new video interview between CM Angelace and Bill Roper. You can check it out here!

New invitations for the Hellgate London alpha are being sent out as of today! There have been scattered reports of community members receiving invitations; more invites should slowly be sent out over the next little while. Thanks to Scapes/HGG for the heads up.

The folks over at shacknews conducted an interview with Flagshipstudios' Tyler Thompson, you can read it in full right here!

With E3 junior going on right now, a vast amount of game media is being released, including a new Hellgate London video. You can check it out on ve3d!

Mythos, a game being published by Flagshipstudios and Ping0 as a game/multiplayer infrastructure test has moved on from Alpha to beta. You can sign up for a chance to participate in the upcoming beta here. Here's to hoping the Hellgate London beta won't be too far behind!

Gamespot has conducted a new Hellgate London preview, the latest covers the Engineer class and high level content. There's some new information in here so it is worth a read, check it out here!

I'm sure many die hard fans will be glad to know that it appears that a Hellgate London Manga is being made and will be available in April of 2008! It is being published by TokyoPop and it will be sold in English (I am not sure if a Japanese version is being made or if it only intended for an English audience). (Thanks HGG)

TwitchGuru has a new Hellgate London preview available, included with it is a set of 52 screenshots. You can check it out right here! (Thanks HGG)

IGN has a new Cabalist article up, included is a set of two new high definition Summoner and Evoker videos and a series of screenshots. You can read the article and view the new media here!

PlayHGL has released a large number of Hellgate London scoops over the past few days. Here's a roundup of what they have available:

• Mixture of new and old screenshots made available via their APL media kit
• Interview with Bill Roper, Kaiser Hwang and David Brevik
• Transcript of Bill Roper's APL Speech

Elsewhere, over at GameMeca, a number of new station, HUD, skill tree and gameplay screenshots are available. (Thanks HGG)

A new Hellgate London video is now available and showcases new combat footage, weapons and areas. This latest clip comes from South Korea's GameChosun (Thanks HGG)

Shacknews has the scoop on elite only content/updates details made available during the South Korean Asia Launch Party. Here is what we can expect:

The first four major updates will include new server types, such as "Hardcore," "PVP," and "Role-play." Auction house access, in-game email, auto-group matchmaking, guild housing, and shared guild stashes are among the planned features that Flagship captain Bill Roper outlined in a speech to the Korean crowd. In addition to the social functions, Flagship hopes to implement a trinket system, armor modifications, and usable stationary turrets. The typical assortment of new monsters, locations, skills, and character classes were also promised.

You can also see new photos of the event on GXleague.

Flagship Studio's Kaiser posted a large number of his Hellgate:London Asia Launch Party pictures on flickr. You can check them out here!

In what is a sure sign that Hellgate's beta and release happens to be just around the corner, the Alpha site is now live! You can check it out right here. Unfortunately, one cannot go beyond this page without the proper login and password. Even if one did, I'm assuming the NDA would prevent them from telling us what lies on the other side. This is great news regardless. (Thanks HGG)

For those who fancy game related figurines, Weta now offers a set of Hellgate collectibles. I am not typically someone who would be interested in figurines, but I have to the admit the Hunter's design is amazing. Check them all out here. (thanks HGG)

PlayHGL has the scoop on Hellgate's Asia Launching party, their picture filled report can be read here. The most important information of this event bodes well for Hellgate fans, the South Korean Hellgate closed beta begins in July! Only time will tell when non-asia regions will have their chance to participate as well. (Thanks HGG)

To promote Hellgate in Korea, Hanbiton (I assume?) ordered a fleet of Hellgate plastered vehicles! Korean fans can expect to see their favorite upcoming game roaming around on the streets of Seoul. You can see what their car looks like by heading over to Kotaku.

Based on an article at Kotaku, we may in fact see a Hellgate:London on the 360. One should take this with a grain of salt (for the moment) considering the article's source is Namco and not Flagship Studios. It's just a rumour, but...

This year NamcoBandai has Hellgate: London, a PC RPG cum, shooter that it is co-publishing that with EA. Given the company's newfound penchant for cross-platform development, I ask if an Xbox 360 version is likely. Karlsson won't confirm it, but he admits that it's highly unlikely that such a notion is far from the company's planning calendar. Kotaku