Torchlight 2 gets fourth class and $20 price tag
The Embermage is the fourth role to be revealed for Torchlight 2. The magic user joins the Berserker, the Outlander and the Engineer as the final character class, and can wield the power of the elements against Torchlight 2′s enemies. The elements of fire, ice and lightning, that is, not Boron, Potassium and Hydrogen and the like, though a mage with mastery over the periodic table is an intriguing idea.
The biggest PC stories of E3 2011
It’s been a very busy year for PC news at E3. All last week we were bombarded with new trailers, announcements, screenshots and interviews from LA. We got to see some of the most exciting games of the next few years demoed right before our eyes. You can find all of our E3 2011 posts right here. If you don’t fancy clicking through five days of madness, we’ve compiled the biggest stories of this year’s conference into one post with links to all the best trailers, screens and stories of the show.
E3 2011: Torchlight pirated over 5 million times in China, Runic CEO: “That’s fine with us.”
After getting hands-on with Torchlight 2′s brawlin’, just-announced Berserker class at E3, I had a chat with Runic Games’ CEO, Max Schaefer about T2′s just-announced LAN support, Runic’s refreshing attitude about DRM and piracy (and why “millions,” of illegal downloads in China don’t bother him) and the the possibility of 50-player multiplayer.
Torchlight II teases new monsters
Ever fought a Yakotaur? No? Well you’re gonna. Runic Games has put up a page with a teaser concept painting of the half yak, half yeti beast along with five others you’ll casually bump into while exploring the depths of Torchlight II’s dungeons. The other five (manticore, witch, gargoyle, spectral dragon and Dwarven automata) are a little more conventional, but still cool lookin’. Runic is promising to unveil more every other week leading up to E3, so this page is worth bookmarking. Read on to see’em all here.
Blizzard ‘love’ Torchlight
When Torchlight was released in 2009, it wore it’s Diablo influence proudly on it’s sleeve. It’s success certainly kept fans of Blizzard’s dungeon crawler happy, having been without a new title for nine years. But what do Blizzard think of Torchlight? “We play those and we generally love them,” said art director Christian Lichtner when talking to Eurogamer. “Torchlight – we love it, we play it a lot.”
Torchlight 2 release date drops to July. Xbox port of original caused delay
Originally scheduled for a Spring release, Torchlight 2 is now due July 2011. Runic Games told Digitial Spy that extra work on the interface for the Xbox port of the original has caused delays, but emphasised that the tweaks will improve the PC experience in the long run: “Having to do the extra work with the [Xbox] interface, has pushed us back a little bit, so we’re probably talking July right now for Torchlight II… it’s going great, however. We’ve actually got some optimisations and technical improvements that went into making the Xbox version that we’ve been able to go back and implement into Torchlight II for PC.”
PC Gamer awarded the original Torchlight a whopping 89 percent. Read our extensive making of here.
(via Eurogamer)
PC Gamer Game Club Week 12: Torchlight
Every week the PC Gamer Game Club picks a new game to play and discuss. All sorts of games have featured so far, from classic real time strategy games like Age of Empires 2 to the grim survival horror shooter STALKER. This week the brilliant action RPG, Torchlight is under the microscope. All you need to get involved is a copy of the game in question. Read on for details.
Torchlight is 1 year old, is super cheap to celebrate
Runic’s excellent fantasy hack ‘em up is having a sale to celebrate being one year old. That’s one year and thousands and thousands of exploded imps, immolated spiders and defeated dragons. If you’ve missed out on the carnage so far, Torchlight’s anniversary sale makes this the perfect time to get involved.
Light from the Darkness: The Making of Torchlight
Diablo casts a long shadow over the action-RPG. Few games have been able to dispel Blizzard’s gloomy dominance of the genre, though many have tried. Only Torchlight shines in the dark. A modest game in scale and price, made in a year by a small team, it is as accomplished a resurrection of the genre as anyone could want.
PC Gamer UK August issue – Cataclysm
The newest and most cataclysmic issue of PC Gamer UK has just burst from our printing press, and it’ll soon be sundering the very land itself, wracking your supermarkets with gaping geothermal fissures. As you rapidly burst into flames in the magazine aisle, you may only have time to read three things.
You should start with Tim’s six-page World of Warcraft: Cataclysm preview on page 44. He’s seen the new old world, and explains exactly how Deathwing’s emergence has reinvented Azeroth – as only a WoW veteran can.
As your kneecaps melt, you can flip to page 72 and read Martin Davies’ feature on the making of Torchlight, and the first details of their upcoming Torchlight MMO.
Finally, as your grasping hand sinks into the molten copies of Nuts and Men’s Health, your last regret will be never reading Tom’s report on the updated AI for Supreme Commander 2 on page 116. Hint: they made it scary.
Remember to flip to the competition on page 87 to find out how you could win a Cyberpower Ultra Scylla worth £900 – sometimes it’s as simple as making us laugh the most by wearing a silly hat.
Of course, if you want to avoid turning into a puddle of dedicated reader in the molten supermarket, you can buy an issue online here when it goes on sale on the 1st of July, or subscribe here.
Torchlight MMO details in the new PC Gamer
The team behind the fantastic action-RPG Torchlight are making an MMO, an MMO that will be free-to-play, but supported by microtransactions. Although little’s known about the MMO, the Torchlight team talk about their plans in the new issue of PC Gamer, on-sale in the UK on Thursday. In the mag, they reveal that they’re aiming for an MMO that feels like a single player game, and it’ll retain the same fast action. Their president Travis Baldree also shows he has a traditional PC gamer attitude towards microtransactions.
