{"id":5661,"date":"2009-05-07T14:42:18","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T21:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=5661"},"modified":"2013-05-10T18:38:11","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T01:38:11","slug":"hanbitsoft-restarts-mythos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/hanbitsoft-restarts-mythos\/","title":{"rendered":"HanbitSoft Restarts Mythos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8587\" alt=\"Mythos Logo-S\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/Mythos-Logo-S.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" \/>MAY 7, 2009 \u2022 South Korean publisher HanbitSoft has restarted development on Mythos, a dungeon-themed MMO that was a casualty in the demise of Flagship Studios in 2008. HanbitSoft retained the IP rights, and new development on the MMO is being carried out by the publisher&#8217;s parent, T3 Entertainment, and Redbana U.S.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Impact: Flagship Studios was a company founded by a group of ex-Blizzard Entertainment employees that had worked on Diablo.\u00a0In 2007, the company launched the high profile failure, Hellgate: London MMO.\u00a0The failure of Hellgate resulted in the collapse of Flagship and HanbitSoft picked up the rights to Mythos.\u00a0In the high risk world of MMOs, there is always the question of whether product in development has any value with the collapse of the development team.\u00a0HanbitSoft is clearly trying to salvage work done on Mythos and this will be an interesting case study to watch.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAY 7, 2009 \u2022 South Korean publisher HanbitSoft has restarted development on Mythos, a dungeon-themed MMO that was a casualty in the demise of Flagship Studios in 2008. HanbitSoft retained the IP rights, and new development on the MMO is being carried out by the publisher&#8217;s parent, T3 Entertainment, and Redbana U.S. Impact: Flagship Studios [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5661"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8586,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661\/revisions\/8586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}