Hellgate: London Korean Open Beta on Friday

The Open Beta for Hellgate: London is launching this coming Friday. Details can be read at HanbitSoft’s website.

Bill Roper, Eric Liu and Aletheia Simonson from Flagship Studios will be gracing the huge event at Melon Ax Hall in Korea. DJ Doc, a Korean hip-hop group will also be performing live at the event. So if anyone’s going, please be sure to bring a camera and take some photos of the event!

It looks like it’ll be possible to win a slew of prizes including a new Dell XPS gaming laptop, HP widescreen monitors and more.

Hellgate: London in Tom’s Hardware “Worst Games of 2007″

I was hoping to resume newsing on HGG with a good piece of news, but heh, duty comes first. Ben Meier and Rob Wright, hosts of Second Take (Tom’s Hardware’s games-related show) had a talk about the worst games of 2007, and Hellgate: London is on the list, along with games such as L.A.I.R or Fantastic Four.

According to Meier and Wright, HG:L is “plagued by technical issues”, “crashes and glitches”. The biggest blow comes from Wright: “If it did not have these technical issues, would it be a great game ? No, but it might be better, might be a rental […]”.

It should be noted that this advice is based on Travis Meacham’s upcoming review, and that Meacham is “prepared to say that it will be one of his worst reviewed games of the year”.

More details of Arvid Nelson's Hellgate: London comic book revealed

More than two months back, we reported that Flagship Studios' Hellgate: London would be getting a manga rendition of its own courtesy of Tokyopop. More details have surfaced about London comic">Arvid Nelson's Hellgate: London comic since then, most of which deal with the context and the characters of the story.

The story of the new Hellgate: London comic is set in the year 2020, about 48 hours before the Templar make their suicidal assault on St. Paul's Cathedral on All Hallows' Eve. Rugby champ John Fowler and his family take the spotlight this time around as they attempt to make sense of a variety of ominous occurrences that will reveal the truth behind the real nature of their family.

Writer Arvid Nelson and illustrator Lee Tae-Hang worked in conjunction with Flagship Studios for the Hellgate: London comic project. Volume 1 of the manga consists of 192 black and white pages in softcover format, and sells for a retail price of US$10.99.