In yet another super weird twist of fate for the Hellgate: London intellectual property, Gamasutra is reporting that HanbitSoft is planning to take over the game once again, and is even working on an expansion!

Korean publisher and developer HanbitSoft has officially announced that it owns the IPs for Flagship Studios' Hellgate: London and Mythos and is actively working on a Hellgate expansion, despite the scheduled termination of Hellgate's servers by operator Namco Bandai.

Hellgate generally suffered from perceived quality issues and struggled to maintain a sufficient fanbase to continue operating, leading to Flagship's essential closing in July 2008.

In a letter posted on a HanbitSoft blog, they talk about the future of Mythos as well.

“Hellgate: London is now HanbitSoft’s game, and we have already formed a team. They are doing hard work for updates and patches. Service in Asia including Korea is in good hands” said Gi-Young Kim, CEO of HanbitSoft, and added “I believe Mythos is a very attractive MMORPG, just gaining large fans from couple of beta tests. It has a lot of potential and it will also be developed at studio in San Francisco with Hellgate: London. Both titles will be presented soon with upgraded features.”

I'm not going to take Mythos off my vaporware watch just yet, but I'll be excited to eat my words and login, if it ever comes to that!