Mar 21, 2011

Format: XBLA (version reviewed), PC, Mac Unleashed: Out Now Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios Developer: Runic Games Players: 1 Site: http://www.torchlightgame.com It’s no surprise that Torchlight is an excellent action-RPG filled to the brim with monsters, loot, and dungeons; after all, it was released for personal computers in 2009 and later saw...

Runic Games has had a busy day as Torchlight takes not one but two gaming awards. From the Game Developer Choice (GDC) awards the team picked up the trophy for Best Debut Game, while at the Game Industry News (GiN) awards they got the sought after RPG of the Year trophy. “To win both of these awards is absolutely incredible, and means so much coming from our...

Sep 24, 2009

There’s a new addition to the list of Torchlight trailers, this time for the ‘Alchemist’ character. Bright shiny lights, cool powers, loads of enemies (including a stupidly huge one)…if this doesn’t get you looking forward to Torchlight, nothing will. Regular readers will remember our interview with Runic Games, and just to...

We were determined to get an interview with Torchlight developers Runic Games and what Critical Gamer wants, Critical Gamer gets. The offices had very nice clean padded walls, and we managed to convince the nurses to decrease Wonder Russell and John Dunbar’s sedatives to the point where we could question them. We asked them to keep the jackets on,...