Editor's note: I have to admit, I hadn't heard about Torchlight until this post. I happened to get a chance to play Torchlight's spiritual predecessor, Mythos, when that game was in beta, and was really looking forward to its release (which never happened, due to the implosion of developer Flagship). -Demian
Not too long ago, there was a collective sigh from strategy aficionados -- Blizzard announced that StarCraft 2 would be delayed into 2010. But another, perhaps less audible, sigh could be heard -- the subtle realization that Diablo 3 will likely see store shelves sometime in 2011.
Blizzard quelled those fears by stating that the delay wouldn’t affect the release schedules of any other Blizzard titles, telling players to expect “two releases” in 2010. But fans were again disappointed to hear that the second Blizzard release that year would instead be the next World of Warcraft expansion, Cataclysm.
2011 is quite a ways off. What’s an action-RPG-with-a-slice-of-roguelike player to do? Torchlight.
