News: Diablo fans prepare for Torchlight II and (maybe) Diablo III in 2011.
Runic Games has announced that their homage to Diablo, Torchlight, will be getting a sequel next year.
Torchlight II will be initially released as a PC digital download in Spring 2011 with a boxed version coming after that. Listening to their fans, Runic has packed the sequel with everything gamers demanded including co-op multiplayer, new classes and a brand new, completely randomized Overworld.
As is to be expected from a sequel to Torchlight, the game involves a quest to destroy a great evil:
Beyond the town of Torchlight lies a world shrouded in adventure and mystery. Guardian-warrior Syl appears in a prophetic dream, summoning the player to the Estherian Steppes. There, you meet with the Destroyer and soon venture across the continent of Vilderan, an exotic frontier besieged by forces of evil. A discovery unfolds, that the Alchemist, following his conquest of dark ember, disappeared on his quest to defeat the unknown corrupted force responsible for destroying the mystical race of Estherians. Aided by Syl, the remaining Estherian Guardians, and clues left behind by the missing Alchemist, you will find yourself battling a powerful enemy that threatens to unravel the elements of the entire world.
More information on Torchlight II can be found at the game's newly launched official website,
Torchlight2Game.com.
We'll have more soon.