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Torchlight Interview With Runic Games CEO Max Schaefer

A new interview has gone up. Here's a small clip:

"There were a great many cheerleaders for Hellgate: London. Who wouldn't be excited about a first-person Diablo-style game from the creators of Diablo? Unfortunately, Hellgate: London didn't live up to its promise or ambition and a string of financial missteps took Hellgate: London, its developer Flagship and its other projects, such as the warmly received free-to-play hack 'n slash Mythos, down with it. Flagship's Seattle studio was developing Mythos, but rather than scattering its team to the wind, everyone buckled down to start from scratch and formed Runic Games. Almost a year later, Runic Games is ready with its own take on the point 'n click action RPG, Torchlight."

You can read the full article over at G4. Enjoy the read!

 

Torchlight and XBLA?

The dungeon-crawler Torchlight is due for an exclusive PC release on Oct. 27, but developer Runic wouldn't mind seeing the game offered on Xbox Live Arcade someday.

The Runic CEO Max Schaefer told 1Up that he and his team "talk about it a lot. We fantasize about getting the [Xbox Live Arcade] version, and that would probably be the one we did ... the XBLA one.

"We look at it and we say, 'This would really do great," Schaefer said.

Right now, Runic's priorities lie in another direction. The Runic team, which grew out of the ruins of Flagship Studios, will next be working on an MMO version of Torchlight, and Schaefer notes that "We have just one little team."


Would be great for them to do an XBLA version methinks. Thanks StealthBlue for the heads up.

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Friday Treat for 10/09

A new Meet the Team has gone up and it's Greg Brown's turn and he's the "the jerk Tools Engineer who’s leaving the country for two weeks during launch month".

We also get a countdown timer for the launch of the game. Check it out at the Torchlight official website.

 

New updates on Torchlight!

A new Meet the Team has gone up. This time it's Adam Perin's turn and he's the tech artist that does a little of this and that too!

We also have a Torchlight Dev Diary, and you can catch the first entry over here.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 07 October 2009 00:26
 

Friday Treat for 10/02 - Avatarate!

runicgames just tweeted todays treat...and it's a bunch of avatars! You can also check out the media page and find more goodies.

 

Torchlight FAQ

runicgames tweeted that their FAQ for Torchlight was live. Check it out here. Also...starting today, we are 27 days away from launch...YAY!

 

PrEditor Scripting 101

Today the third install ment of the PrEditor tutorials was released completing the set. You can catch the first installment here or download it from filefront. Watch the second one or download it and catch the third and last one or download it.

Now that all three are released, I'll watch them, got all of em waiting for me on my hard disk. We would like to hear what you think of the videos so please head over to our forums and let us know!

 

Alchemist Trailer

Today we have a new treat. The Alchemist trailer has been released. You can check it out over at the official Torchlight site or on youtube.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 23 September 2009 22:43
 

Friday Treat for 9/18

Four pieces of art have been posted over at the Torchlight site. I know I've seen a couple of them before, but check them out in their original size...IMPRESSIVE. Looking forward for the next treat!

 

Meet the Team: Sirio Brozzi

A new Meet the Team has gone up. This time it's Sirio Brozzi, and italian born citizen who's a concept artist.

 


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