A second London Tube Tour video from Hellgate: London is now available. This one shows off the Charing Cross Station section from the game.

As the game nears release, Flagship Studios sent out word that renowned video game composers Cris Velasco and Sascha Dikiciyan have created the original soundtrack for Hellgate: London. It will be available within the game’s collector’s edition, which will be released alongside the standard edition on October 31.

Two new Hellgate: London videos have been released, showing off some major gameplay from the upcoming action-RPG. The embedded video below shows off the Covent Garden Underground Station level, which includes a boss battle. I haven’t hosted the other video, which is a Quest Design document demonstrating two in-game quests, but it can be found on Gametrailers.

This Hellgate: London pre-order benefits page drops word that preorders for the game would include a “Founders Club” lifetime subscription offer. It’s a $149.99 price tag for those interested to savor the game’s premium multiplayer features for life, though it notes that the lifetime offer is valid for the span of the game, rather than that of the player. Interestingly, this span is completely undetermined, as it can be “cancelled at any time, without any refunds or other compensation to the user.”

The offer is valid until November 30, after which it will no longer be available.

Bringing voice chat to its upcoming action-RPG, Flagship Studios announced that it will integrate Xfire’s peer-to-peer communication system in Hellgate: London, allowing players to easily communicate and strategize with each other. Additionally, players will be able to login to Xfire from within the game and easily add their friends and other gamers into a voice chat room, talking away as they play.

Founded by the creators of the Diablo series, Flagship is staying on the beaten path with Hellgate: London, which plays a lot like Diablo. The game is set in post-apocalyptic London, letting players loose on demons with over 100 magical and sci-fi weapons. It makes useof “random generation”, allowing players countless hours of replayability. The game will be out soon.

This year’s London Games Festival is shaping up to be quite an event, with over 40 events taking place all over the British capital, it will become mighty crazy. The organizers of the event are now calling independent game developers, distributors and smaller players to participate in the event. Here’s the deal:

In addition to events from large publishers and hardware manufacturers, London Games Festival will include a number of exciting events exploring aspects of interactive entertainment as culture, creative form and new markets. The fringe is designed to recognise that many computer games and most digital play falls beyond the scope of the games industry.

The Fringe will reflect a spectrum of activity: independent game development and distribution, participatory community play, the future of game design, artists’ games, live action role-play, augmented reality games, casual games, interactive storytelling and more. The Fringe will involve performance, exhibitions, master classes and seminars, participatory workshops and, of course, opportunities to play.

The London Games Fringe is open to anyone who wants to get involved. The festival is looking for people who are keen to create their own events under the ‘London Games Festival Fringe’ umbrella and will support these satellite events through online and print promotion, marketing support, partnerships and venue space. These may be seminar events, street games, performances or exhibitions.

Fringe events including a week long Game lab - developing new concepts and ideas, Sense of play - a game design symposium, and Head Trauma - a cinema based alternate-reality game. The festival runs from October 22 to 26.

Word comes from Leipzig that Flagship Studios has announced the pricing structure for the premium multiplayer component for Hellgate: London in Europe.

The game will come with both standard and subscription multiplayer accounts, the former of which is free. Those who wish to have the ability to play co-operatively with thousands of other players, trade items, join guilds and enjoy other benefits including voice chat and buddy lists will have to dish out €9.99/£6.99 per month. Subscribers will also get new game modes, new character classes, areas, monsters, items and raid content.

Hellgate: London is set for release in Europe on November 2.

One of those ultra-rare Linux gamers? Then check out this page where you can sign up to beta test the Linux edition of X3: Reunion, the latest entry in the space combat series. On LinuxGames are details on participation.

For Windows gamers, there’s the Hellgate London beta. However, this won’t be free, as interested parties will have to pre-order the game through Hellgate Resistance, who notes that buying the game will include a chance to participate in the game’s beta testing: “Signing up for the pre-order will also automatically register your name on the waiting list for the Hellgate: London beta test.”

The studio behind the upcoming action-RPG Hellgate: London has expanded itself with the formation of a new development studio: Flagship Seattle. With that they also announced the studio’s first game: Mythos, an online RPG that will be used to test the networking technology behind the multiplayer component of Hellgate: London. Mythos will be digitally distributed globally sometime next year.

Flagship Seattle is being led by Travis Baldree, who previously worked at Wild Tangent as the Lead Designer on the popular free-to-play game Fate. Other members of the studio have worked on a range of titles including Dungeon Siege, Total Annihilation and SWAT 3.

Word comes from EA that it will collaborate with Namco Bandai on publishing the upcoming FPS-RPG Hellgate: London. EA will publish the game, with Namco Bandai continuing to oversee the development of the title. It will also retain rights to publish expansions or sequels to the Flagship Studios title.

Flagship Studios has announced a joint venture with Ping0 which will manage all aspects of hosting online games for Hellgate: London, the studio’s upcoming highly anticipated RPG.

“Supporting Hellgate: London is just the beginning for Ping0,” said Bill Roper, CEO and co-founder of Flagship Studios. “We fully expect Ping0 to both handle the online components and digitally distribute all of Flagship’s future titles. The company will also provide publishers and developers that want to bring their games online with a solution proven by one of the most highly anticipated titles in the industry.”

Penny-pinchers in UK can now grab these Xbox titles for £10 a piece starting May 26: Halo 2, Project Gotham Racing 2, Counter-Strike, Fable: The Lost Chapters, The Simpsons, Crash Bandicoot Wrath of Cortex, Crash Twinsanity and Crash Nitro Kart.

During E3 NVidia announced that Hellgate: London, Flagship Studios’ debut title, will include support for Havok FX physics and Microsoft’s ShaderModel 3.0, making it one of the industry’s first DirectX 10 games.

Hellgate: London combines the action of FPS games with the infinite replayability of dynamically generated levels, items, enemies and events. Players create a heroic character, completes quests and battles through hordes of demons (gates to hell have been opened… again) to advanced through experience levels and branching skill paths.

Namco Bandai will be publishing the game when it’s done.

Namco and Dark Horse Comics have announced that they are producing a comic book based on Hellgate: London, the upcoming RPG-FPS from Flagship Studios.

The comic book will provide the background story behind the game, with Issue “0” beginning when MI5 agent Lyra Darius discovers a human charnel house in London while investigating the affairs of a recently resigned Minister. The story builds up with Lyra entangled in the Knights Templar conspiracy, following up to the “Battle of All Hallows’ Eve”.

Written by Ian Edginton, the critically acclaimed author of Scarlet Traces and the recent War of the Worlds web comic adaptation, who has teamed up with Superman and Preacher artist Steve Pugh to explore the demon-ravaged metropolis. Issue “0” will be given away for free at E3.

Namco will be showcasing 19 of its highly anticipated titles at this year’s E3. Set up at booth #824 in the South Hall, the company will be showing off new installments in notable franchises including Xenosaga Episode III, Tales of the Abyss, Ace Combat X, Tekken Dark Resurrection and The Legend of Heroes II. They will also be showing off Hellgate: London, Warhammer: Mark of Chaos, Naruto, One Piece, Ultimate Ninja and more. Below is the full lineup:

• Xenosaga EPISODE III: Also sprach Zarathustra
  
• Tales of the Abyss
  
• Pac-Man World Rally
  
• Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception
  
• Tekken: Dark Resurrection
  
• The Legend of Heroes II: Prophecy of the Moonlight Witch
  
• Mobile Ops™: The One Year War
  
• Mage Knight Apocalypse
  
• Warhammer: Mark of Chaos
  
• HELLGATE: LONDON
  
• The Fast and The Furious
  
• Snoopy vs. The Red Baron
  
• Charlie Brown’s All-Stars
  
• Naruto: Ultimate Ninja
  
• Zatchbell!: Mamodo Fury
  
• .hack//G.U. Vol.1: Rebirth
  
• One Piece Grand Adventure
  
• IGPX
  
• Eureka Seven Vol 1: The New Wave