Torchlight dev 'eager to break that mold,' try something new
Runic Games CEO Max Schaefer told Shacker Mark "warcrow" DeSanto that the company will make Torchlight 3, but with a "twist."
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Runic Games CEO Max Schaefer told Shacker Mark "warcrow" DeSanto that the company will make Torchlight 3, but with a "twist."
Following a string of successful crowd-funding campaigns, the old-school RPG may well be the new new-school RPG. Wizardry series veteran Brenda Brathwaite, along with Tom Hall, co-founder of both id Software and Ion Storm, and the rest of the gang at Loot Drop are now hoping to make one of their own, seeking $1 million from you and me to fund it.
Now that you've had a few weeks to prance gaily around the definitely-not-Asian land of Pandaria, it's time to put on your raiding trousers and get down to serious business. Blizzard yesterday opened up the Mogu'shan Vaults, World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria's first raid for you to throw your corpses at in the hope of striking shiny loot.
The rag-tag gang of survivors in Telltale's adventure game The Walking Dead have been through some hairy situations, but with episode four of five just around the corner, surely everything's starting to look up for them? Telltale yesterday dropped Ep4's teaser trailer ahead of its release this month, showing that, well, maybe not quite yet.
Space-jerkface sandbox simulator EVE Online's eighteenth free expansion is to focus loosely on crime and punishment, developer CCP has announced. 'Retribution' will launch on December 4, with a grab-bag of changes ranging from new ships to a revamped bounty hunting system to help you metaphorically parade around Jita with your enemy's head atop a space-pike.
Little Inferno is aiming to release day one on the Wii U (November 18), but Tomorrow Corporation also says it will hit on PC the same day.
The Indie Royale "Oktoberfest" bundle has launched, offering another six games and bonus albums for crossing a set amount.
Blizzard recently revamped Legendary items in Diablo 3, but that doesn't do too much good if they're still super-hard to find. So, as part of the ongoing public beta testing of patch 1.0.5, Blizzard is now experimenting with doubling the drop rates of Legendary and Set items,
Darwinia maker Introversion's Prison Architect is a fascinating one, a prison management simulator described by the developer as "inspired by Dungeon Keeper, Theme Hospital, and Dwarf Fortress." If you too are intrigued, you can start playing it this very day, as Introversion has opened pre-orders and offers a playable alpha as a perk.
The Humble Indie Bundle 6 added four more games to its line-up today: Bit.Trip Runner, Gratuitous Space Battles, Jamestown, and Wizorb.