Hellgate: London Ships This Summer

In a press release issued today, EA and Flagship Studios announced that Hellgate: London would ship worldwide this summer. While not quite an MMO, this "action-RPG" contains significant online elements.

EA AND NAMCO BANDAI GAMES AMERICA ANNOUNCE SUMMER 2007 SHIP WINDOW FOR HELLGATE: LONDON

Hotly-Anticipated Action-RPG from Flagship Studios set to Heat up PCs this Summer

Electronic Arts, Chertsey UK. - January 8, 2007 - Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) and NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. today announced a summer 2007 worldwide ship window for the highly-anticipated online action RPG Hellgate: London™, the first original PC title from premier developer Flagship Studios.

"We are all committed to making Hellgate: London absolutely the best game possible," said Bill Roper, CEO of Flagship Studios. "The anticipation surrounding the game is immense and we are looking forward to its launch being a truly worldwide event."

Hellgate: London combines the depth of role-playing games and the action of first-person shooter titles, while offering infinite playability with dynamically generated levels, items, enemies and events. The player creates a heroic character, completes quests, and battles through innumerable hordes of demons to advance through experience levels and branching skill paths. A robust, flexible skill and spell system, highly customizable appearances, and a massive variety of randomly generated equipment allow players to create their own unique hero.

Hellgate: London is currently being featured on the show floor of the 2007 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas from January 8-11 in Central Hall at the Microsoft booth (#7145) and Intel booth (# 7153) and in South Hall at the Dell booth (Level 3, #30363).

For more information about the game, log onto www.hellgatelondon.com

This should be a title worth keeping tabs on.