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BlackChampagne -- no longer new; improvement also in question.: HGL Field Trip



Saturday, September 30, 2006  

HGL Field Trip


I can't go into too many details, thanks to the NDA I signed, but I was lucky enough to get invited to Flagship Studios on Friday afternoon, for some Hellgate: London play time. I'll be posting more about it on my HGL site, obviously, but I just thought I'd mention it here in case anyone reads this and not that... though if you like HGL enough to care about my visit, that seems unlikely.

At any rate, it was a lot of fun to play the game and see the various guys I know from the old Blizzard North days, and honestly, if you thunked me on the head and I got amnesia and forgot all about the demise of Blizzard North and the founding of Flagship Studios, etc, and told me I'd been to Bliz North's new office yesterday, I wouldn't argue with you on the point. Same sort of vibe, lots of the same great guys, really fun game to play pre-release, well-stocked kitchen, timely pizza delivery, etc.

My only regret, aside from getting about 12 hours less play time than I wanted, was that Malaya had to work and couldn't come along (the visit opportunity came up on fairly short notice, so she couldn't plan ahead for some time off). I doubt I'll get another chance to visit pre-release, with them hoping to get into the beta testing by the end of the year, but if so I hope we can both go. I did bring her a shirt, at least, though Dusty's the only one who's tried it on yet.

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Comments:

Awesome ^^. Looking forward to HGL.

Interesting "rapidshare" link too. =\


 

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