Flagship: "We ended up rushing Hellgate"

I recently had a bit of a chinwag with Flagship COO Max Schaefer for Eurogamer. Primarily it's about free MMO Mythos, a game they sound supremely confident about: "Can we take down the big boys? I think we can take down some of them. And I'd like to put a dent in the others." He's also remarkably honest about its similarities to Diablo and WoW, adamant that being so is in their audience's best interests.

There's also some interesting light-shining on the Hellgate: London balls-up. Of course he doesn't actually say it's a balls-up, but it certainly sounds as though Flagship are no longer pretending all is sweetness and light in Hellgateland: "When you're starting with a brand new game studio with very limited budget and no existing technologies, that was probably biting off too much." Read the full interview here. It was a long old chat - there's another 3000 words on the cutting room floor, which I may lob up here later on.