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Flagship Studios officially toast

chautemoc | August 15, 2008 | News | PC Company 
As discussed last month on sister site Neoseeker, creators of the free MMORPG Mythos, Flagship Studios were pretty much toast. Well, the word is official now.

Some members of the team have gone on to form Runic Games. However, Mythos still doesn't seem too likely.
Despite playing along like nothing was wrong not too long ago (making the image above more than appropriate), Flagship Studio's co-founder Max Schaefer tells Gamasutra that "for all intents and purposes" the company is closed down. It is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker ... etc., etc.

Some former Flagship employees have gone on to start a new studio, but what they'll be working on is anyone's guess as the rights for the deceased developer's IPs were gobbled up by other companies. Now, let's all move on and learn from Flagship's mistakes and try not to repeat them. Writing stories about lots of people losing their jobs is never fun.

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    kspiess | August 15, 2008
    It's a shame Mythos might not see the light of day. It would have been pretty successful if it came out in October as planned.

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