Torchlight

Golden Joystick Awards RPG “Shortlist” Video

The 2010 Golden Joystick Awards are just around the corner, and members of the community are being asked to start casting their votes. To help us decide which role-playing game deserves top honors, they’ve even put together a video that…

Torchlight II Announced

The mysterious Torchlight concept art we were following here and here has finally been fully revealed… and it’s officially announced Torchlight II! The most interesting addition to Runic Games’ action RPG sequel is co-op multiplayer over LAN and Internet: Torchlight…

Torchlight Concept Art Continues Its Teasing

The concept art on the official Torchlight website that we linked to last week continues to expand, though it’s still not clear what, exactly, it’s teasing. Perhaps it will show a party of characters at the top of the stairs,…

Torchlight for Macintosh Coming to Europe and Russia

JoWooD sent us over a press release this morning announcing that they’ll be publishing the Macintosh version of Runic Games’ Torchlight in European and Russian territories later this month. The details: TORCHLIGHT GOES MAC Vienna, Austria, August 2nd 2010; JoWooD…

Torchlight Texture Project v1.2 Released

A community member by the name of SorrySoldOut has dropped by the official Torchlight forums to announce the availability of a new modification that touches up and generally improves the textures in Runic’s popular action RPG. There’s even a three-minute…

Torchlight Concept Art Suggests… Something

Runic Games has updated the official Torchlight website with a cryptic message (“Things have been so busy lately, we have not been able to figure out what this is. any ideas?”) that links us to a piece of concept art…

Torchlight Music Interview

A four-page interview with Runic Games’ Matt Uelmen is up at Gamasutra, during which the video game composer is quizzed about his previous career at Blizzard Entertainment, the contributions he’s made to Torchlight, his musical influences, and more. How did…

Torchlight v1.151 Patch Released

Runic Games’ Travis Baldress brings word via the official forums that a small v1.151 patch is available for the Steam version of Torchlight, which clears up the invisible Varkolyn issue that quite a few people have been dealing with on…

The Making of Torchlight

PC Gamer has published an excellent three-page history of Torchlight and the visionaries behind the successful little action RPG, from their start at Condor Incorporated developing Diablo to the painful loss of Mythos that ultimately led to Torchlight’s development. (I…