After seemingly coming back together, the development team at Petroglyph seems to have permanently parted ways with publisher UTV True Games over the release of the upcoming free-to-play multiplayer action-RPG Mytheon. This week the game's official message boards had a post from Mytheon's community manager at True Games, stating that the title "has fully transitioned into the hands of our Developers at UTV True Games." No mention of Petroglyph was made.

According to the message board post, True Games plans to end the game's current open beta test on August 31 to make "improvements" to the title. The post says the dev team will provide "early invites to the game in the first quarter of 2011". The forum posts adds, "We remain committed to offering Mytheon as a top quality free-to-play game at official launch with polished gameplay, enhanced features and expanded content: a game worthy of the excellent players that have already joined us for its early testing."

Officially announced in December 2008, development of Mytheon seemed to be going well until May of 2010 when True Games sued Petroglyph over the source code for the game. Only a few weeks later things seemed to be back on track as True Games and Petroglyph announced that their legal issues had been resolved and that Mytheon would launch on July 13. However True Games announced later that the game would not make its planned release date after all. We have emailed Petroglyph to get their side of the story.