Runic Rises from Sunken Flagship

[Aug 10, 2008, 01:29 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Runic Games announces they've formed in the wake of the closure of Flagship Studios, hoping to continue in the MMO action/RPG direction they were following with Mythos:

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.

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Aug 10, 2008, 22:56

Skullguise

The art style is VERY close yes... But Mythos has/had a totally different engine than FATE with much better graphics, more mobs, classes (FATE had none). And of course FATE has no multiplayer at all. The reason for the similarity is that Baldtree pretty much did the art (and just about the entire game I think) for FATE and he also did the same with Mythos. I am playing the new FATE and it is pretty fun though FATE is pretty much a lite ARPG. If you actually played Mythos and FATE the difference would be clear. Mythos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KoU7tvPkKI&feature=related FATE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCNWEKp7pys&feature=user This comment was edited on Aug 10, 23:01.

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