Welcome to the third part of this RPG historical review. When last we left off, we had just finished off the Western decade of the 1980s, and were finding out about what happened to RPGs in the East in the early 1980s.

Let’s jump right back in!

Continue reading El33tonline’s editorial by guest writer Fayyaad, A complete history of role-playing videogames: Part 3.

A follow-up to 2009’s excellent Diablo-esque dungeon crawler, Torchlight, has been officially announced by Runic Games, and promises to expand on the “whimsical and quirky world captured in the original Torchlight.”

Torchlight II, slated for release in the ‘Spring’ of 2011, will be brought to you by a veteran team of developers comprising designers who’ve worked on games such as Diablo and Diablo II, Mythos and Fate, and includes a new multiplayer element to allow gamers to play with their friends, or use the matchmaking service to meet new players:

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