Did Hellgate: London Find a New Backer?

Gamespot reports that Namco Bandai may be keeping the doors open for Flagship Studio and their ailing hybrid RPG/shooter Hellgate: London.

This bodes well for the game I should think. Like I've said before, the game's biggest problem stemmed from a badly mismatched subscriber model. I can't tell if that was Roper's brainchild, or that of a parent company. I can practically see the World of Warcraft dollars signs spinning in someone's beady eyeballs. Unfortunately, they didn't realize (or chose to ignore) that HG: L didn't offer a fraction of the content WoW's does. Nor the quality.

Hopefully someone as Namco has a bit more business acumen and can successfully dig HG: L out of this hole.