Magicka: The Stars Are Left Announced

We just received a tongue-in-cheek press release announcing a new expansion for Paradox Interactive and Arrowhead Game Studios’ Magicka, this time moving into Lovecraft-inspired territories with Magicka: The Stars Are Left.  The add-on promises to offer a new adventure, new challenge maps, new bosses, new enemies and more, and is scheduled to launch later this winter. Have at the concept art and screenshots in our image gallery, as well as the announcement trailer:

And here’s the pun-laden PR:

Ph’nglui Mglw’nafh Cthulhu Magicka Wgah’nagl Fhtagn

Magicka Gets R’lyeh Creepy in Newest, Biggest Expansion Yet

NEW YORK October 27, 2011 Paradox Interactive and Arrowhead Studios have exciting news for Magicka fans, straight from the Inn’s Mouth: Everybody’s favorite magical multiplayer massacre is taking on an all-new adventure in Magicka: The Stars are Left. Designed for players who love to craft the hundreds of different spells available in Magicka, this new campaign will pit up to four wizards at once against a horror-mystery inspired by the popular Cthulhu Mythos. The Stars are Left will boast a much requested feature from the players a new adventure campaign, including several terrifying new enemies, bosses awakened from the depths of insanity, and several other miscellaneous Miskatonic minions. Other spoofs ending in (-craft) may or may not also be included.

In an act described by industry colleagues as (more insane than a black goat with a thousand young,) Magicka: The Stars are Left will be available not only to players who purchase the expansion, but to all of their friends, as well. So long as the host player in a co-op group owns the content, every one of their co-wizards will be able to co-experience the mind-killing terror of the new expansion.

The Stars are Left includes:

‘¢ An all-new adventure, several levels long, allowing players to get lost in space and time
‘¢ 2 new challenge maps
‘¢ 2 new robes
‘¢ 2 new bosses
‘¢ 5 new achievements
‘¢ 7 new enemies
‘¢ Considerably more than 2 new items and Magicks
‘¢ Also, we make fun of Minecraft this time

Magicka: The Stars are Left is scheduled to launch this winter.

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