When your bottle already catches lightning, you probably shouldn’t go back to the drawing board. Torchlight 2 has plenty to offer for an early alpha, but most of the changes focus on strengths from the first game.

You may recall Runic Games, developer of the Diablo-esque action RPG Torchlight. If not, don’t worry: they’ve announced a sequel to help jog your memory. The big reveal for Torchlight II is peer-to-peer multiplayer, supported by matchmaking. From the press release: Torchlight II answers the overwhelming call of our community with an expansive co-op multiplayer [...]

Torchlight looks so much like Diablo II that you might worry it will feel derivative, but only if you have no idea who designed it. Developer Runic Games is populated by veterans of the Diablo series, Fate, and the nearly released Mythos. So instead of a knockoff, Torchlight turns out to be more of a successor. It’s a refined example of the Roguelike action RPG.

Ok, I’ll be the first to admit that I have Torchlight on the brain because I plan to release a review Monday. However, Runic’s little roguelike seems to be the flavor of the month, it seems newsworthy to note that the developer has posted an early version of the mod tools. So, I know it’s [...]