Echtra Games announced a major shift in direction for their free to play RPG Torchlight Frontiers. The game was originally conceived as an MMORPG, but gamers often expressed disappointment how far the game strayed from its old school ARPG roots. After a year of complaints, Echtra Games and publishers Perfect World Entertainment have decided to listen to feedback and return the Torchlight franchise...
This week’s Deal of the Week doesn’t go to one particular item, but Greenman Gaming’s 666 Sale. For the rest of the weekend, GMG has 6 deeply discounted titles on sale for 6 hours. Amazon’s Summer Sale is in full swing this week, here are the best of the best! Grand Theft Auto IV & Max Payne 3 Complete Bundle @ 80% off [Windows – Steam] Max Payne 3 R...
If you’ve been waiting to pick up the original Torchlight or bought the sequel without playing the original then we have some good news for you. Today Runic Games’ Torchlight was placed on GOG.com for free for the next 48 hours. The promotion is part of the companies “#NoDRM” promotion and once you download it, it can be yours forever. In fact, thanks to GOG’s online ...
Runic Games wished everyone a happy new year along with the announcement that they had sold over 1 million units of their game, Torchlight 2, via this tweet. Torchlight 2 is a dungeon crawler with many similarities the Diablo series. However that can be expected since Torchlight was worked on by the same man who worked on Diablo 1 and 2, Max Schaufer. A popular opinion, for those who enjoy the ge...
The original pay what you want indie bundle is back with another blockbuster group of indie games in support of the Child’s Play charity and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Need to get your dose of Torchlight before the September 20th, 2012 release date of Torchlight II? First up is the critically acclaimed Diablo 2 inspired action RPG Torchlight. Next, Humble Bundle is offering t...
Does the real money auction house and number of other issues revolving around Diablo 3 make you cringe for a simpler but equally enjoyable dungeon crawling experience? Well hopefully by the end of the Summer this year you will have a new alternative because Runic Games’ Torchlight 2 is still planned for a release sometime this summer. Speaking with Joystiq, Runic president Travis Baldree has...
Perfect World Entertainment has announced that it will showcase its latest game, Rusty Hearts, at Anime Expo, which starts tomorrow! The multiplayer online, hack n’ slash fighting game, which debuted at this year’s E3, will get its spot in the limelight at the largest anime and manga convention in the U.S. held annually at Los Angeles Convention Center. Attendees of Anime Expo will be treated to e...
Game Name: Torchlight Platform(s): Xbox Live Arcade Publisher(s): Microsoft Developer(s): Runic Games Genre(s): Action RPG Release Date: March 9, 2011 Price: 1200 MS Points ($14.99 USD) DOWNLOAD NOW! Two years after a highly successful PC release, Runic Games have now brought the much loved Torchlight to the Xbox Live Arcade. If you have never heard of Torchlight before, it is an action rpg in whi...
V8hilux has redeemed over 6,000 cube points and is probably enjoying his prize, or will be if he hasn’t received it yet. As you can see he is no longer on the top of the leaderboards, but I am sure we will see him up there again soon enough. Pity the 6,000 cube points weren’t Microsoft Points because then he could have easily bought Torchlight and every single piece of discounted Lara ...
Earlier today we mentioned that the XBLA House Party would be kicking off shortly and what games will be released on what days. Runic’s Torchlight happened to land on the March 19th release date for 1200 MSP ($15) which means that in just over a month people will be crawling around dungeons and slashing and hacking away at plenty of monsters in this popular dungeon crawler. The first XBLA ga...
The Xbox Live Arcade House Party has been finally given a starting date, and they have also detailed all of the games that will be coming out during it. Releasing in one week intervals starting on February 16th Xbox Live will be pushing the Arcade games like they did last year. Each of the games has finally been given a price tag as well, with three games being placed in the 800 MSP category and t...
Next month on February 18th the Xbox Live House Party will begin. While this may not mean that any real party will be happening it will bring a slew of new titles to the Xbox Live Marketplace for download. But what games exactly will be released during this House Party? We now know that Beyond Good & Evil HD will be released during this time period so that will definitely tide the fans over. A...