Les anciens du bureau de Seattle de Flagship Studios ont annoncé hier la formation d’ une nouvelle entité, Runic Games. Après la fermeture de Flagship Studios, Hellgate : london et Mythos s’ étaient vus adjugés l’ étiquette “Stoppé”. Aujourd’hui, Hellgate london a été repris par Atari et Mythos, action rpg anciennement développé par Flagship Seattle, voit donc son développement repris par la nouvelle société Runic Games.

Runic Games, bien que n’ ayant pas encore communiqué au sujet de ses projets, travaillera et recrute déjà afin de reprendre au plus vite le développement de Mythos et accessoirement, sa bêta fermée.

Le studio sera dirigé par Travis Baldree et Max Schaefer, ce dernier ayant été un des pères fondateurs de Blizzard North (Diablo) et de Flagship Studios.

Seattle, Washington - August 8th, 2008 - The former Flagship Studios Seattle team is proud to announce their reformation as Runic Games (www.runicgames.com). As the team responsible for the highly-anticipated Mythos at Flagship Studios, Runic Games intends to continue to use their expertise in the Action-RPG MMO genre to create the best games in this market.
The studio is headed by Travis Baldree and Max Schaefer. Travis served as Project Director for Mythos at Flagship Seattle, and previously created the bestselling Action-RPG FATE. Max was the Executive Producer for Mythos, and one of the original founders of Blizzard North, the creators of the bestselling Diablo franchise. He was also one of the founding members of Flagship Studios.
Announcements about Runic Games’ forthcoming projects will be made in the coming days.

Source: Gamesindustry