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1 week ago
Perfect World Entertainment today announced a new game in the action-RPG series Torchlight, nine months after shutting down the studio which created it. But some scraps of Runic Games have survived to make Torchlight Frontiers, as this new one is named, including Runic co-founder Max Schaefer and other unnamed former Torchlight folks at his new studio, Echtra Games. Weird. What a weird situation. Torchlight Frontiers…
4 years ago
Huh. Well, this is kinda unexpected. Runic, the band of former Diablo devs that produced Torchlight and the especially excellent Torchlight II, have just lost two key members. Founders Travis Baldree and Erich Schaefer are departing the little ARPG studio that could because, er, it apparently grew too large for their tastes. 20 people under one roof? You're practically Ubisoft at that point. For real, though,…
5 years ago
Have you recently suspected that you're living an Inferior Life? You might not be wrong. Thousands of people are diagnosed with Inferior Life Syndrome every day, and to hear forums, gaming sites, and Internet comment threads - all of which are made up 100 percent of doctors - tell it, it's probably because those people aren't playing the right games. There's plenty of science to…
Holy cow, everyone. People bought a videogame! Look at all these HOT NUMBERS, sensitive bits conjuring curiosity from behind the slimmest of dollar signs. Yes, I know this sort of news isn't typically very exciting, but I think Torchlight II warrants an exception to that oh-so-sacred of RPS rules. Runic's finished taking count on the fingers and toes of all its employees and their many…
Torchlight II's actually already seen some rather brilliant mods, which is impressive given that modders have only been able to paddle themselves through its stat-laden sea of systems with their wits. For its part, however, Runic promised official mod support ages ago, and now - after maybe a little more time than most people were expecting - it's finally delivered. So then, what do burgeoning…
6 years ago
When you played through Torchlight II, did it feel like something was - I don't know - missing? Wait, for real? Because there was a whole, whole lot of stuff in Runic's brilliant sophomore slasher (read that phrase again; videogame lingo is weird sometimes, you guys), so I was mostly joking for the purposes of introducing this sentence: Torchlight II was a glorious loot pinata explosion…
I am a monocled engineer with a pet bulldog called Mr Kibbles. Eyebrows aside, the only hair on my head is an attractive piece of lip furniture that I call The Handlebars of +4 Roughhousing. Torchlight II really does seem like a pleasant way to click away the hours, as John excitedly reported yesterday. If you're not convinced that this is the ARPG for you,…
Feature: Still Fails To Feature Torchlight In A Significant Way
I've played Torchlight 2 for 20 hours, killed 8339 monsters (1352 of them exploded), gathered 179,463 gold pieces, died 115 times, and completely pointlessly smashed 1,368 bits of scenery. Which I believe makes me ready to tell you Wot I Think.
Feature: Fuel For The Fire
It's been a long road to the release of Torchlight II. Not Diablo III long, mind you, but it technically started with the original Torchlight, which didn't even release until 2009. And all the while, there's been Torchlight ports and constant demand for a Torchlight MMO - among other things. I wouldn't be surprised if talk of Torchlight-branded torches, lights, and lighters crept into the…
Torchlight II will be out on 20th September of this very year and that's pretty much all there is to say. Does anyone remember when it seemed like there'd be a collision between Diablo III and the indie charmer? For a moment back before summer failed to begin, I imagined a pileup of ARPGs, all rushing down the internet pipes, erupting in an +4 burning…
If the Internet serves as a representative sample (and I don't see why it shouldn't), the first thought on the minds of most humans - the goal that sustains our insatiable will to live - isn't love, sex, eating, fighting, curiosity, or figuring out how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop. It's Torchlight II's release date. When word…
If you're anything like me, then not only are you uniquely handsome, but you're also wondering what the bloody hell is taking action RPG Torchlight II so long. Come ON Torchlight 2! My mouse has just recovered from Diablo III, and I need SOMETHING TO CLICKCLICKCLICK on. Oh, they've said. As Eurogamer spotted, Runic bossman Travis Baldree has posted on their forums saying why there's…
If you don't have a muscular clicking finger a lot of the discussion around these parts may be a little disheartening as of late. It's all Diablo this and Grim Dawn that, and maybe Exile the other. How about a bit of Torchlight II to go with all that, or as an alternative to Blizzard's biff 'em up? If you haven't already had a chance…
It's the weekend. I should have a perpetual grin plastered across my face as I skip down the street with cartoon birds fluttering in my wake. Instead, I'm feeling a bit like finding a corner with a shadow that'll cover my face just so and gazing wistfully out a window. The cartoon birds are still invited, but this isn't really their scene, you know? And…
An MMO has always been the end goal for Runic's proposed heir to the throne of click-click-click, but its path to production has been anything but straightforward. Originally, Torchlight was the warm-up, and the MMO would follow soon after as the main event. Then Runic decided it needed to spec its collective skill tree into multiplayer, and thus, Torchlight II was born. So, naturally, the…
Feature: Shining a light on that 'one month' confusion
In almost a month on the dot, Diablo III will finally, honestly, truly launch. This is not a test. Opinions on the beta have been mixed, but still, it is the third entry in a positively massive franchise about everyone's favorite spicy Latin brand of Satan. We've been waiting for more than a decade. All eyes are rightfully on Blizzard's loot lusting opus. Which is…
In much the same, incredibly depressing way we're all destined to become our parents, I tend to believe gaming's spiritual successors slowly but surely inherit oddly specific qualities of their forefathers. For instance, Serious Sam riffed on Duke Nukem, only for Serious Sam: BFE to spend years in uncharacteristic silence with nary a peep as to its development progress. As time passed, I began to…
The year they call 2012 will be full of dungeon crawling and loot hauling. Thousands of people probably descended on the Path of Exile for the first time this weekend and there's the not inconsequential matter of Diablo III's mid-May arrival. But what of Torchlight II? I feel like it hasn't been clamouring for my attention as loudly as perhaps it should and a short…
7 years ago
Joystiq's crystal ball lit up earlier today with notification of a blog post by Runic bosslord Travis Baldree in which the man from Runic states that "a game of this scope up to the quality and polish level we want to achieve is going to take a little longer," and also: "We've probably had 18 months of full development time on it so far -…
An announcement on the Torchlight II site confirms that the game will ship for $20. Here's the kind of statement that you would think more company bosses releasing PC games would include in their press release: “It’s always been our goal to provide exceptional value for the price,” says Max Schaefer, CEO of Runic Games. “Everyone who wants to play Torchlight II will be able…
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