PC RPG Hellgate: London has been quietly brewing for two years now, but this new footage (on our Movies tab) of dem♛ons and zombies on the receiving ꦦend of some serious firepower (and sharp pointy things) shows that it's building up nicely.

Being a totally randomized action-RPG - pretty much all the monsters, levels, equipment🅺 and possi♍bly even character skills are freshly baked every time you play - we can understand why it's taking so long, but we're impatient types when it comes to our click-fests.

And with Hellgate: London's deep weapon and equipment customization (they're so proud of it, you'll see the same weapon-boosting sequence three times in our footage medley) it should be the first game since Diablo 2, wayꦗ back in 2000, to really scratch the number-crunching itch.

We're hoping Hellgate: London will claw its w🔜ay out into the light of store shelves sometime next year - but as its creators all come from super-developer Blizzard, we know that they won't release it "until it's ready." Best PC game of 2008, perhaps?

October 20, 2006